History would have certainly been different if that man had killed Hitler, but not the history that most people believe it would have been.
Without Hitler, impoverished Germans would have probably embraced Red Banner Communism. They would have joined with Stalin and the two nations would have still tried to conquer Europe and beyond, in the name of the international brotherhood of workers.
How would WW2 have gone with Germany and the USSR united against the rest of Europe. What would an America, which was run by a Progressive (communist) throughout the 1930’s have done as the red wave swept across Europe and into Africa and Asia?
Even if killing Hitler in 1917 would have saved the 6 million Jews who died in the camps, Stalin’s treatment of Jews wasn’t much better.
If you don’t think that Germany would have slipped into Communism, just look at how easily it’s happening in the USA right now and we aren’t nearly as miserable as the people of Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s.
I wonder if this is why Hitler always had somewhat of a soft spot for the British. He could have taken them at Dunkirk but backed off. I’ve read that he didn’t want to invade them and hoped they’d join his cause.
Well we DO know what Hitler went on to do. Everything else is just ( intelligent, yes) speculation. Therefore, I wish this nice WW-1British soldier had finished the job of returning Hitler to hell. (Nevertheless, his act of compassion was laudable given he couldn’t know what evil Hitler would later do ). Satanic murderous people, once identified as such, must be killed not released from jails at the request of their comrade in wash dc.
I would like to go back in time and tell that guy to SHOOT!