re: #302 Dark_Falcon

Well, I wouldn’t either, but mostly because I could not do so without erasing my own mother and hence myself by doing so. Without WWII, my mother’s parents would never have met. So I could not kill Hitler before he started the world on the path to war without creating a nasty paradox.

The paradox is that if you go back in time to kill Baby Hitler, you no longer have a reason to go back in time in the future.

Besides, the question is based on a faulty premise. Whether or not you kill Baby Hitler doesn’t matter. WW1 still happens. The Treaty of Versailles still happens. The Weimar Republic still happens. The Nazis are still formed, since Hitler didn’t found them. The hyperinflation that almost destroyed Germany still happens. The rise of nationalism around the world still happens.

Even if Hitler hadn’t been part of the equation, someone else could’ve stepped in to become that charismatic Nazi leader who capitalized on German anger and helplessness to rise to power. WW2 still could’ve happened in some other form.