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Rescued: Johann Kuehberger, left, saved the life of a four-year-old Adolf Hitler, pictured right in an undated photo, when they were both children

1 posted on 01/05/2012 7:09:16 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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If I could re-write history, I would make it so that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were on the river bank and all three dived into the river to save Hitler. All four then drowned in the icy waters. End of story.


2 posted on 01/05/2012 7:11:49 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
Here's another story about how in WWI a British soldier spared Hitler's life....Later, after Hitler came to power, he sent his thanks to the Brit. Could you imagine how the Brit must have felt?

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/tandey.htm

3 posted on 01/05/2012 7:14:01 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: DogByte6RER

It’s believed that God gives people free will. Kuehberger and Hitler. What an irony. Saving a life seems one of the better things one can do. It would have been a tremendously good simple act if the people of Europe had saved one person each from the evil enterprise that Hitler created and oversaw.


6 posted on 01/05/2012 7:22:31 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: DogByte6RER

What if it was a Jew that saved the young Hitler?


13 posted on 01/05/2012 7:33:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DogByte6RER

What if it was a Jew that saved the young Hitler?


15 posted on 01/05/2012 7:33:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DogByte6RER

MEMO TO SELF: Don’t ever rescue a four year old potential future Fuhrer!


16 posted on 01/05/2012 7:33:43 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: DogByte6RER; a fool in paradise

If I could of I would of saved Elvis’ life! Or better yet, Buddy Holly’s.


24 posted on 01/05/2012 7:44:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Wonder how many other evil persons never came to adult fruition due to early death?

And how many extraordinary people have been aborted?


25 posted on 01/05/2012 7:48:53 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: DogByte6RER

A four-year-old jumped into an icy river to save another four-year-old? Sorry, I’m not buying this. Perhaps the translation is garbled. But if Kuehberger was the same age as Hitler and Hitler was four years old, it means his rescuer was four years old.


27 posted on 01/05/2012 8:00:10 PM PST by Houghton M.
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To: DogByte6RER

I seriously doubt this story. At least that Kühberger as it seems to be spelled in German saved Hitler.

Kühberger was born according to wikipedia on 11 October 1889. Hitler was born according to wikipedia on 20 April 1889.

So in January 1894 Hitler would have been about 4 years and 8 months old, while Kühberger would have been about 4 years and 3 months old.

Now I know everyone including President Obama says we are softer now than in the past, but I do not believe that 4 years and 3 months is an age where someone was jumping in an icy river to save someone even in 1894. And there were probably not nearly as many backyard pools in Austria in those days compared to now or say the US south today, so it is even less likely that a 4 years and 3 month old was able to swim, not to mention some how saving and lifting another 4 year old out of the icy water.

So maybe someone saved Hitler that day. Maybe Kühberger had some role. But this story as reported is not credible to me.

The British WWI soldier story is more credible. It was interesting and new to me.


31 posted on 01/05/2012 8:15:05 PM PST by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress)
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To: DogByte6RER

There’s the funny ‘Drive Recklessly’ video (1:08).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S75Rfva9O8


33 posted on 01/05/2012 8:19:33 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: DogByte6RER
One of my favorite "what if" scenarios is, what if Richard Nixon had shaved before entering the TV studio on September 26, 1960? The history of the 1960's and beyond could have been vastly different.
36 posted on 01/05/2012 8:24:46 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: DogByte6RER

Hitler also survived a dozen horrendous battles during WWI - his unit was all but wiped out several times, yet he received only minor injuries and was even awarded a medal for his devotion to duty - makes ya wonder......


52 posted on 01/05/2012 9:33:33 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: DogByte6RER

Didn’t Hitler grew up in Austria?

Also please correct me but wasn’t Saddam Hussein rescued by Jewish people who made his mother change her mind about aborting him?

All these what ifs. I guess things happen for reason and only God who has given us free will knows.


56 posted on 01/05/2012 9:48:15 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: DogByte6RER

According to August Kubicek, who was friend of Hitler when they were teens, Hitler once rescued his friend’s mother, when she had fallen in a river.


62 posted on 01/06/2012 1:46:17 AM PST by wideminded
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To: DogByte6RER

Unfortunately the conditions that gave rise to Nazism were not limited to Hitler’s personality. There is an interesting book: “The War Against The Weak” which illustrates just how the Eugenics movement, which was strong in the USA, helped and encouraged the cataloguing and rounding up of Jews & Gypsies in Germany. The Carnegie Foundation on Long Island and IBM were both involved. It seems that Oliver Wendell Holmes was not alone is his desire to eliminate undesirables and to hasten Evolution along. So without Hitler it probably would have happened anyway. IMHO


65 posted on 01/06/2012 1:11:11 PM PST by RichardMoore (There is only one issue- Life)
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To: DogByte6RER

Hitler also served in the German army during WWI. He saw action on the front lines and distinguished himself to the extent he was awarded the Iron Cross. Equivalent to the Bronze Star with a V designation or perhaps a Silver Star. My point is he could very well have died in combat as many of his comrades did ... he, of course, survived. Sometimes things are meant to be ...


70 posted on 01/07/2012 9:35:52 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: DogByte6RER

The priest, a comrade, enough said.


73 posted on 01/28/2012 5:10:34 AM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever!)
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