If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be?

[loyalsister]

399. Without Hitler....

The eugenics movement here would have been credible and expanded beyond the forced sterilizations that did occur.
If you want to stop the worst of Hitler's atrocities you have to look to historical figures here in the US.
The eugenics movement supported by Thomas Edison and other mainstream figures was a large piece of the blueprint for the holocaust. Of course, whoever came up with the idea to put Native Americans on reservations also deserves some credit.

The only thing that awakened the public consciousness to the dangers and horror to be found with the evolution of a eugenics movement was the holocaust. It's a terrible awful truth, but I can say with near certainty that my life would have been much worse or ended very early if not for some of the most horrifying discoveries of programs in NAZI Germany.

Was the point of this exercise to learn that what we do with where we are regardless of what means by which we got here is what matters?