Posted on 08/01/2025 5:50:15 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The Horten Ho 229 was a German flying-wing jet prototype developed in the final days of World War II. National Security Journal was given a guided tour of the plane’s remains at the Smithsonian. Often called the “Nazi stealth fighter” for its resemblance to the modern B-2 bomber, the aircraft was a radical design that was decades ahead of its time.
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Sorry, Sir, but could you possibly tell us a little more about this story?
It sounds like a fascinating read- though being utterly utopian, of course.
But I always have been interested in utopian stories, just as Utopia by Thomas Morus, the City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, The Time Machine by H.G.Wells and The Machine Stops by E.H. Foster.
I would appreciate your help so much 🙂
I’ll try to find it. I used to read tons of anthologies of science fiction. I want to say it was Isaac Asimov, but I looked through ALL his stuff and couldn’t find it.
The general plot was a scientist went back in time to kill Hitler as a baby, did so, and then came back to find that a Nazi-esque movement had still risen in Germany due to the slights of the WWI, but it was affirmatively not anti-semitic.
Well, they promptly built The Bomb, jets, and missiles, waited until the Soviets were fully defeated before attacking the West, and kicked everybody’s asses and were just as bad as the real Nazis, much to the horror of the protagonist.
Thank you very much for taking your time to reply to me 😀
That must be an utterly fascinating story - though not a one with an ending where everything is terrific…😞
Oh, and I hadn‘t known that there has often been a thought experiment in ethics, whether to travel back in time and to murder the infant H., if time travel were possible.
In the Atlantic, a journalist named Matt Ford wrote on this problem, but his fellow Chris Bodenner maintained that it would have been better to have given him a scholarship to Vienna art school (long story short 🙂).
On aish, com, Rabbi Benjamin Blech also wrote a treatise on this subject. He was extremely hesitant about the prospect of killing a baby, even one who was to grow into the worst person in history https://aish.com/killing-baby-hitler-a-jewish-response/
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