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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
I stole this from another forum so dont be thinking I'm original.

"If you had Hitler as a baby in your arms what would you do?"

Obviously knowing what he would do later on.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I dont think I could kill a person..let alone a baby. I dont believe people are born 'evil' so maybe I'd attempt to manipulate his future experiences. Toughieee..
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'd just think of it like this:

    Which is worse? Killing a baby or killing thousands of jews.

    If you don't kill him, then you will, passively, kill thousands of jews.

    Or you could stop him from becoming a dictator and so on.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    quarfly wrote:
    I'd just think of it like this:

    Which is worse? Killing a baby or killing thousands of jews.

    If you don't kill him, then you will, passively, kill thousands of jews.

    Or you could stop him from becoming a dictator and so on.

    Hitler killed zillions of people because he believed them to be evil. You kill a baby because you believe it to be 'evil'. It just seems..wrong.

    You dont think there is the possability for change?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I wouldn't kill him, I would however educate him as a child and try my best to stop him from having those views.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    knowing what he would do, i would take the easy option of executing him then and there, rather then committing my life to changing his views. i mean hitler was born with serious psychological issues anyway, a narsasitic complex, a god complex, a self-hater complex as he had jewish grandparents and some gypsy blood in him. i just think it would be impossible to manipulate him towards the way of goodness.

    the same goes for Lenin, if he had been assasinated or executed young and never committed such attrocities with the Russian state, the USSR would never have come to pass and Stalin would never have been able to kill 20 million Russians, etc!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rachael wrote:
    I stole this from another forum so dont be thinking I'm original.

    "If you had Hitler as a baby in your arms what would you do?"

    Obviously knowing what he would do later on.

    Send him off to a Kibbutz.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Killing Hitler before his time would have probably lead to the Bolsheviks controlling the whole of Europe, The deaths of 30 million people in Russia at the hands of the Red Beast between 1917 - 1939 is a conservative estimate - one shudders to think what would have happened if that beast had headed westwards without any kind of opposition.

    For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lawrence wrote:
    Killing Hitler before his time would have probably lead to the Bolsheviks controlling the whole of Europe, The deaths of 30 million people in Russia at the hands of the Red Beast between 1917 - 1939 is a conservative estimate - one shudders to think what would have happened if that beast had headed westwards without any kind of opposition.

    For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

    Why would a democratic Germany have been less effective than a Nazi one?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    National Socialism and Hitler came to power as a direct result of Communism.
    without the National socialists in Germany, or the Fallange in Spain, or the Fascisti in Italy Moscow would have subverted all these countries.

    It was a case of fighting fire with fire and it worked.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lawrence wrote:
    National Socialism and Hitler came to power as a direct result of Communism.
    without the National socialists in Germany, or the Fallange in Spain, or the Fascisti in Italy Moscow would have subverted all these countries.

    It was a case of fighting fire with fire and it worked.

    No it didn't. It came as a result of WW1, the Versaille Treaty and economic depression. Germany and Italy were no where near falling to Communism.

    In fact its probably more accurate to say that as many states weakened by the war fell to communism (eg Poland, Yugoslavia, the Baltic States) that Hitler helped communism and split Europe for fifty years.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I would offer him counselling from the age of three months.
    :lol: nice answer :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    No it didn't. It came as a result of WW1, the Versaille Treaty and economic depression
    I agree that i over simplified the subject and indeed Versailles and the economy were very much a factor of Hitlers rise to power, as was the "Jewish" money pumped into the NSDAP from Wall street through bankers such as JP Morgan - BTW how many of you are aware of the fact that the Bush family were also ploughing money into the Nazi party? Its true, do a google if you dont believe me.
    Germany and Italy were nowhere near falling to Communism
    You are kidding right? this is basic stuff, Rosa Luxemberg? I can elaborate if you want but i feel it is a needless tangent that shouldnt really warrant a debate.

    In fact its probably more accurate to say that as many states weakened by the war fell to communism (eg Poland, Yugoslavia, the Baltic States) that Hitler helped communism and split Europe for fifty years.
    Fair enough but only due to the fact that Hitler ultimately failed - But it didnt help matters that General Eisenhower, to the dismay of all around him halted the Allied advance through Germany so as to allow the Red Army to swallow up much of the Eastern territories .
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    I'd educate him nicley and give him a good upbringing. Or place him in an assylum ;p (Joke.)

    A good upbringing would probably works...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lawrence wrote:
    I agree that i over simplified the subject and indeed Versailles and the economy were very much a factor of Hitlers rise to power, as was the "Jewish" money pumped into the NSDAP from Wall street through bankers such as JP Morgan - BTW how many of you are aware of the fact that the Bush family were also ploughing money into the Nazi party? Its true, do a google if you dont believe me..

    Like many far-right idealogues you are overestimating what Prescott Bush did. He invested in German industry after the war and met several Nazi leaders a few times. This is not the same as ploughing money into the Nazi party.

    You are kidding right? this is basic stuff, Rosa Luxemberg? I can elaborate if you want but i feel it is a needless tangent that shouldnt really warrant a debate.

    Please do elaborate as I fail to see how someone [URL=http:////www.kirjasto.sci.fi/luxembur.htm]who was killed in 1919[/URL] was going to overthrow the state and introduce a communist dictatorship in 1933.

    Fair enough but only due to the fact that Hitler ultimately failed - But it didnt help matters that General Eisenhower, to the dismay of all around him halted the Allied advance through Germany so as to allow the Red Army to swallow up much of the Eastern territories

    As the borders had already been agreed at Yalta he probably didn't see the point of loosing further British and American lives in a race for Berlin (which the USSR would probably still have won). Amd when you say the dismay of all around him, most people who knew anything about it agreed with him (with the exception of Patton who was showing growing signs of meglomania)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well, acually speaking about that period of times and the rise of the Nazis, we can clearly see a direct convergence of German military build up and superior fighting tactics and use of 3 dimensional warfare (air combat/bombing raids) and the Nazi government. If the Nazis had not taken power a Democratic Germany,crippled by the global Depression and constricted to obey the conditions imposed by the treat of versaille, something the Nazis ignored, would have stood no chance what so ever against a Communist build up.

    As for the Communist stranglehold, the Communists had the war in the bag in Spain until the Nazis supplied the Fascists with superior arms to fight against the crappy weapons the USSR supplied the Communists via Comintern or was it Comincom? i forget which but through one them. Those two organisations consolidated and centralised all of Communism around all of Europe and it was only rivarly from Fascists that stopped them taking over. That and after World War 2, Bristish troops fighting for Royalists and Loyalists in Greece, Italy, etc

    The West didnt take Berlin or all of Germany not because of boundary lines at Yalta but because of the huge death toll that would have had to have been incurred to take the Capital, so the USSR was allowed to take it.

    Back before the Nazi rise to power, the Communists were the dominant subvertive political group of Germany, but they had no combat training which is why they were suppressed so easily by the Freicorp, which was made up of former trench warfare soldiers of the Great War.

    As for insignificant financial issues such as the Bush family investing money in the Nazis and profiting from such things as Auswitz, i do not see a need to comment on that. Every American investor made money from the Nazis, IBM single-handedley calculated the logistics of the Holocaust afterall!

    The more interesting Question would be; if Lenin had been assasinated earlier in like so the was never ever a Bolshevik uprising and the was never the formation of the USSR under a communist regime, would there have been enough force in the world to stop the Nazis?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lawrence wrote:
    National Socialism and Hitler came to power as a direct result of Communism.
    without the National socialists in Germany, or the Fallange in Spain, or the Fascisti in Italy Moscow would have subverted all these countries.

    It was a case of fighting fire with fire and it worked.
    Your ignorance knows no bounds.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A right winger with a tenuous grasp on history? What a shocker.

    ZOG made me do it guvnor. :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Personally, I would make him into the worlds best assasin, and train him to take out Stalin.
    But thats just me.

    P.S. Why do people always ask "what if you could kill Hitler?" Stalin Killed so many more millions of people than Hitler ever did.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Is it a competition?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Lenin was the real terror of Russia, he was th eman who made the state the way it was for Stalin!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    subject13 wrote:
    Lenin was the real terror of Russia, he was th eman who made the state the way it was for Stalin!

    That means nothing, it was hardly because of Lenin that Stalin was a murdering cunt, it was Stalins fault he was a murdering cunt.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    But Lenin was responsible for mass murder too. millions died as a direct result of his fanatical ideas. Luckily some one assasinated him, but if he had been assasinated or died before he ever made it into power, Stalin would never have ever come to power at all. stalin studied to be an orthadox priest originally but Lenin and the Bolsheviks convinced him there was no such thing as religion and he should join them in the purity of Communism/Bolshevism! Im not saying he wasnt a murderous cunt, im saying he should never have had the chance to be one.

    Hitler came to power legally, Stalin didnt.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    subject13 wrote:
    But Lenin was responsible for mass murder too. millions died as a direct result of his fanatical ideas. Luckily some one assasinated him, but if he had been assasinated or died before he ever made it into power, Stalin would never have ever come to power at all. stalin studied to be an orthadox priest originally but Lenin and the Bolsheviks convinced him there was no such thing as religion and he should join them in the purity of Communism/Bolshevism! Im not saying he wasnt a murderous cunt, im saying he should never have had the chance to be one.

    Hitler came to power legally, Stalin didnt.

    A lot of things wouldn't have happened if a lot of people did x,y,z. Things happened, there's no point blaming the past for someone elses actions.

    And Hitler didn't come to power legally...not in the technical sense anyway.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    subject13 wrote:
    But Lenin was responsible for mass murder too. millions died as a direct result of his fanatical ideas.
    How so?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well Lenin sent armed military forces out to machine gun to death all farmers in Russia who refused to work for free. Part of total communism was to create a barter only system of economy and remove money or any form of currency other then the barter system from Russia. Those farmers were murdered first of all. Then Lenin took control of the already existing Tsarist secret police force...he renamed them but basically had no control, he told them to do what they wanted, so thousands more civilians, most of which came from families like Lenin were put to death for been too rich.
    The civil war in Russia between the Bolshevik/Communists and the Tsarists and the independents was a time when millions died because Lenin gave a take no prisoners order, over 100,000 Kadets were thrown into blast furnaces to burn to death while still alive because of that order and they got off lightly compared to some of the attrocitied Lenin was responsible for. Millions died before Stalin ever even came to power as a result of the communists.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hitler had a political party and one a fair election. Thats legal to me. he then used his position as joint chancellor and president (furher) to remove democracy from germany.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NQA wrote:
    Why would a democratic Germany have been less effective than a Nazi one?
    Because the Nazi German economy was geared towards war (though whether it is a 'blitzkrieg' or total war is questionable), and was armed to the teeth from the mid 30's, and certainly if it wasn't ready when by the late 30's it was by the early 40's.


    A democratic germany wouldn't even be armed anyway after the resolutions set in the treaty of versaille.

    Hitler did come to power legally technically, as said above, he used his position as chancellor and president to remove democracy. Though he never recieved more than....i think his best was 39% of the vote, that's more than our Tony Blair got last election :)

    On the subject of communism not being a threat to germany, well basically in the early years of the weimar republic it was more of a threat than nazism spartacist uprising 1919? It could even be argued that if the SPD could work with the KPD and din't have the bitter fued, then Nazism might never have come to power at all. That's chaos theory for you though :)

    Just an opinion here, but i think of the Nazis never did exist, and the comminists did try to 'march through westward through europe', i'd like to think the allies could have stopped them. It's probable the USA would have been happy to join in this war earlier than the war with Germany.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Subject13: The families that were killed didnt just have their doors busted down, they were givin the chance to... well conform. yes, it is extreme to force people into anything that way, and I am not condoning any form of murder, mass or otherwise, But Lenin never had the power bent mind set that Stalin had. Lenin wanted a powerful country not so that he could remain at the head of it, but so that his people could prosper (this is comparativly, pretty much any leader is enjoyng the privaleges, no matter how much they deny that fact.) And secondly, Stalin BUILT the Gulag and its sister camps, how is Lenin responsible for that then?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What? The Gulag pre-dated Stalin, they were built before eithe rhe or Lenin were born, they were a Tsarist creation. I wasnt talking about the Gulag, but the way Stalin used them to such an extreme degree is definately nothing to do with Lenin, who himself served several years of his youth in one of the more civilised of prison camps.

    It was about conforming, but he had no legal basis to make those people conform, he seized power illegally after he lost the national election in which the Bolshevik party came last of all. Total communism is designed to work in only one way which Trotsky supported. But it doesnt work at all, hence why so many were mass murdered to force its implimentation, though it never worked. no farmer wanted to work for nothing so thousands were put to death with their families, systematically executed.

    The civil war, Lenin had a no prisoner order. The communists were the smallest and least armed BUT most centralised of the parties and united, thats why they won the civil war, they committed horrific atrocities. Lenin despite his promises of change, was a total power hungry hypocrit. He never planned to have equality, he and his loyal followers would always be superiors to everyone else and thats how he planned it. He promised to stop the secret police, but he just renamed them and used them for his own ends.

    Stalin was a mental case mass murdering (20 million at least) power psycho and indeed was more evil then Lenin! but Lenin was still Crazy and evil!
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