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Donald Ian Rankin

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10. I'm wary of "Kill Hitler" counterfactuals, especially that late.

Sat Jan 17, 2015, 04:54 PM

Jan 2015

Hitler's reputation as a military strategist is low - in particular, if he hadn't invaded Russia, as a British Jew I might not be typing this today.

One possibility is that if Elser had succeeded than WWII would not have happened, but another is that another Nazi would have taken over in Hitler's place, and might have won.

We'll never know.

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