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This worked famously well for Hitler in WWII. Maybe we can just fast forward to the part where he suicides in a bunker?
Having the guy who basically ran messages between trenches in the Great War calling all the shots can't possibly fail, so I'm assuming you're speaking ironically and Germany won, right?
I mean, of course he is speaking ironically. Hitler famously bypassed his generals more sound ideas on how to proceed with the Soviet Union and instead for vital strategic locations he went for the prestige objects.
I suppose in retrospective we gotta be glad that he did. Germany still wouldn't have won, but it might have taken longer and every day more of that war was more dead and maimed on both sides.
@TinyPizza is not speaking ironically.
They are speaking sarcastically.
And I am speaking pedantically. No, typing pedantically.
And well done!
I believe sarcasm qualifies as a form of irony.
I’m a little rusty but I’m not sure that’s irony.
No worries my friend. We're allowed to disagree. I hope you have a nice day.
Thanks Alanis. 3rd time lucky on the definition then ?
At a certain point, the Allies stopped trying to assassinate Hitler because he would've probably been replaced with a more competent leader.
While this is true, you have to remember that most of these generals survived the war and wanted to rescue their own reputations by blaming the dead guy (Hitler) for every setback. In fact, the Battle of Kursk---which was a disaster---was planned by the OKW against Hitler's preference. That battle wasn't well-known in the west until the USSR's archives were opened in the 1990s because the OKW generals decided to downplay a disaster they couldn't pin on Hitler.
Teue.
Also, there was some stuff that worked out, but was stupis. Like the raxe to the sea. Like, it turned out to be an amazing move,, butif the British and French reacted differently, they could've ended Germany's tanks then and there.
I have a theory that WWII had to happen at that time, with Hitler in charge of Germany. A decade later with someone more competent the Nazis would have had the bomb and things would have gotten real bad. This is why a time traveler hasn't killed Hitler yet: They've already taken out the even worse dictators.
Just remember all the strange and weird deaths of leaders can always be chalked up to time travellers, after all we don't know where that would have landed us otherwise
John Titor, where are you when we need you?