Perhaps a 13 minute delay for Hitler and his entourage on November 8, 1939 (Reply #9)

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Sat Mar 6, 2021, 11:18 AM

Mike 03 (16,616 posts)

9. Perhaps a 13 minute delay for Hitler and his entourage on November 8, 1939

It's so hard to pick but just off the top of my head I can't resist...

Delay Hitler's 1939 speech at the Bürgerbräukeller by a mere 13 minutes and potentially prevent nearly all of WW2. (Poland had already been invaded). Without a war in the European theater to distract the United States, it's unthinkable Japan would have bombed Pearl Harbor.

Hitler ended his address to the 3000-strong audience of the party faithful at 9:07 p.m., 13 minutes before Elser's bomb exploded at 9:20 p.m. By that time, Hitler and his entourage had left the Bürgerbräukeller. The bomb brought down part of the ceiling and roof and caused the gallery and an external wall to collapse, leaving a mountain of rubble. About 120 people were still in the hall at the time. Seven were killed (the cashier Maria Henle, Franz Lutz, Wilhem Kaiser, a radio announcer named Weber, Leonhard Reindl, Emil Kasberger, and Eugen Schachta).[5] Another sixty-three were injured, sixteen seriously, with one dying later.[3]

Accompanying Hitler that night were Goebbels, Heydrich, Hess, Himmler and others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Elser

It's a bit of a roll of the dice since we can't know for sure Hitler would have been killed, but you said we could change one event, so I'm changing it to "Hitler and his entire entourage were killed."

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If you could change one event in history, [View all]	wnylib	Mar 2021	OP
Lincoln's Assassination	snowybirdie	Mar 2021	#1
Slavery in America. Hands down	jimfields33	Mar 2021	#2
Excellent. Should have thought	wnylib	Mar 2021	#5
I often wonder if the African slave trade didn't exist...	Yavin4	Mar 2021	#39
The elimination	Miguelito Loveless	Mar 2021	#3
nov 22 1963	rampartc	Mar 2021	#4
Have you read Stephen King's book	wnylib	Mar 2021	#8
They made a mini-series of it on Hulu	TexasBushwhacker	Mar 2021	#26
Stopping the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968.	ProudMNDemocrat	Mar 2021	#6
Agree	Ferryboat	Mar 2021	#10
I agree with all of the above, but will contribute my own:	Aristus	Mar 2021	#7
Perhaps a 13 minute delay for Hitler and his entourage on November 8, 1939	Mike 03	Mar 2021	#9
Or Henry Tandey takes the shot in WWI.	Angleae	Mar 2021	#16
I don't have the wisdom to know the repercussions of any change I might make.	Binkie The Clown	Mar 2021	#11
You're right. None of us have	wnylib	Mar 2021	#17
That is one of the great insights one can get from therapy.	Politicub	Mar 2021	#22
Wasn't there a movie about that?	Binkie The Clown	Mar 2021	#23
It sounds like it would make for a good movie. It is often explored as one of	Politicub	Mar 2021	#24
Are you thinking of "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher?	Behind the Aegis	Mar 2021	#25
I actually haven't watched that one.	Binkie The Clown	Mar 2021	#29
Found it. This is the one I was thinking of.	Binkie The Clown	Mar 2021	#30
Star Trek Voyager -- Year of Hell	hunter	Mar 2021	#27
That was the theme of King's book, titled 11/22/63,	wnylib	Mar 2021	#33
Let's see - Butterfly Effect and A Sound of Thunder come to mind	csziggy	Mar 2021	#42
Make Columbus' sailors decent people with no STDs or smallpox	cyclonefence	Mar 2021	#12
Or, make the contact between Europe and the Americas	wnylib	Mar 2021	#20
I'd ensure that Theodore Roosevelt got the 1912 GOP Presidential nomination...	First Speaker	Mar 2021	#13
It think you vastly overstate American influence in 1914. The US was not considered a world...	NNadir	Mar 2021	#14
True that the US was not a world power yet.	wnylib	Mar 2021	#19
The powers at Versailles were not about to surrender their punitive approach to Germany...	NNadir	Mar 2021	#28
Why was Wilson so eager to get into	wnylib	Mar 2021	#31
I actually don't believe that Wilson was "itching" to get into the war.	NNadir	Mar 2021	#38
I have read some of Tuchmann's works,	wnylib	Mar 2021	#44
History ... H E R S T O R Y ... Henry VIII King of England DIES before he had Anne Boleyn beheaded	Trueblue1968	Mar 2021	#41
I'd go back and destroy the wet markets responsible for COVID.	Initech	Mar 2021	#15
You'd have been better off...	jmowreader	Mar 2021	#35
Oh yeah I remember that from John Oliver a couple of weeks ago.	Initech	Mar 2021	#37
Kennedy Assassination.	Fla Dem	Mar 2021	#18
I wouldn't have sold the condo in Los Angeles 20 years ago.	Politicub	Mar 2021	#21
The most realistic goal expressed so far.	Dagstead Bumwood	Mar 2021	#34
LOL.	mnhtnbb	Mar 2021	#45
I can't bear to look anymore on Zillow :)	Politicub	Mar 2021	#46
Hillary beats the orange turd	ironflange	Mar 2021	#32
I would have gone back and gotten Palm Beach County, Fla., to do a ballot people could read	jmowreader	Mar 2021	#36
In 1970 James Brown hires Tower of Power	Mr.Bill	Mar 2021	#40
Lincoln having a security guard and he kills John Wilkes Booth ...before...any other shooting..	Stuart G	Mar 2021	#43

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