Jack Albrecht
2 min readMar 16, 2021

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If you can time travel, why not do something to eliminate the rise of Hitler? Go back and pay an art tutor for teenage Adolf or at least pay for a professional portfolio of his work so that he is accepted to art school in Vienna. I'm 100% sure that art student Adolf would not have ended up leader of the Nazis.

If you have to kill someone, why not Georges Clemenceau of France before the treaty of Versailles negotiations so that Germany is not set under crushing debt after WWI that then destroys the fledgling Weimar Republic?

Or go back even further and provide a map to the driver of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo so that he doesn't take a wrong turn and end up having to make a U-turn in a huge touring car right in front of Gavrilo Princip, thus saving the life of the pro-Serb crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire and avoiding at least the version of WWI that occurred.

If I could go back in time there are hundreds if not thousands of things that I would try before I'd murder baby Adolf.

Why baby Hitler? Why not murder 1920s Adolf after he started really spouting hateful antsemitism? I think that brings up uncomfortable thoughts. People say, "Well, some other Nazi would have just taken his place." Yes, that's almost assuredely true. Which means it is not about Hitler, but the system and sitautions which created Hitler.

Jeb! was ready to pull the trigger on baby Adolf. How many people in the Mid-East do you think would do the same to baby "W" to avoid the nearly 20 years of unending bloodshed after 9/11?

Maybe we should go back to 1492 and take out Columbus when he landed in the Carribean to avoid the 100s of years of rape and slaughter and slavery that followed.

I could go on for hours.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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