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Why Didn't Anyone Kill Hitler?
History News Network ^ | July 19, 2014 | Daniel Mandel

Posted on 07/20/2014 10:25:50 AM PDT by WXRGina

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To: Pelham
The American colonials were defending their rights as Englishmen against a king who was violating them repeatedly.

Partly true, but those English rights still were subservient to the king. American political theory broke with that by inverting the relationship of power completely through the doctrine of negative rights, which served to intrinsically negate royal sovereignty altogether.

41 posted on 07/20/2014 11:49:15 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: WXRGina
this is astounding ....

Germany itself suffered the worst of its losses; of Germany’s 7.4 million dead in the Second World War, some 4-5 million lost their lives in the last six months.
42 posted on 07/20/2014 11:49:49 AM PDT by stylin19a (Obama ----> Fredo smart)
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To: WXRGina

It was probably better that Hitler wasn’t killed, he was such an incompetent military strategist. The one who was killed, and had he lived might have actually lead the third reich to victory, was Reinhard Heydrich. He was a brilliant and evil man who was considered the next ruler of the third reich but fortunately was assassinated by a British trained team of Czechs. I highly recommend the book, Hitler’s Hangman, for a great read on Heydrich.


43 posted on 07/20/2014 11:52:04 AM PDT by angelrod
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To: oh8eleven
Why didn't God stop him - or stop Mao - or Stalin - or Pol Pot, etc?

He did. Where are they now? How many Divisions do they have?

44 posted on 07/20/2014 11:59:26 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: virgil283
I chafe when conservatives are lumped together with Hitler/ Mussolini.

Mussolini championed Fascism, to which Hitler added German nationalism. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressives — the people we now call Liberals — were quite enamored of the Fascists, considered them to be the embodiment of scientific Progressivism and worthy of emulation.

A good accounting of this can be found In Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism.

45 posted on 07/20/2014 12:03:26 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: WXRGina

Isn’t he living in a Swiss chalet along with JFK and Elvis?


46 posted on 07/20/2014 12:06:13 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: Fred Hayek
It is true that Hitler's fixation on Russia was his military downfall. If he had kept two million men in the Mediterranean theatre instead of pulling them out for Barbarossa, the Allies would never have been able to take Germany's Southern flank. Then of course Barbarossa itself was a collosal blunder.
47 posted on 07/20/2014 12:08:00 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: cripplecreek

That honor (percentage of population killed) would have to go to the Reverend Jones.


48 posted on 07/20/2014 12:11:50 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: virgil283
The problem with that guess is that if Hitler had been killed the military would have taken power and immediately sued for terms. The officer corps had seen far more clearly than Hitler his strategic vulnerabilities. They only acquiesced when his diplomatic victories without war depleted domestic political opposition, and then out of nationalism after hostilities began.
49 posted on 07/20/2014 12:14:34 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: BenLurkin
Better question: Why didn't anyone kill Karl Marx?

Why should they? He never held power and never did anything much after publishing his book.

50 posted on 07/20/2014 12:21:26 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: WXRGina

Under the protection of Satan.....


51 posted on 07/20/2014 12:25:19 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: G Larry

My thought exactly.


52 posted on 07/20/2014 12:27:07 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Talisker

“Partly true, but those English rights still were subservient to the king.”

Kirk considered that view to be an innovation by King George which the colonials were reacting against. There were no American representatives sitting in Parliament to vote on the taxes George III was imposing.

American colonials already had long experience with self government in their local affairs. They were content to remain loyal British subjects until King George began violating their rights as Englishmen.

The American Revolution produced no radical social changes, it produced political independence and solidified self government. By contrast the French Revolution was a radical revolution, it involved a war against traditional French society, culture, and religion in addition to political change.


53 posted on 07/20/2014 12:31:35 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: bmwcyle

>>Men do see the future but people like you do not believe them. You made my point.

Not because I’m a sheeple. Its because I am a Christian and I understand the nature of prophecy in this age. No one “sees” the future in this age. Show me someone who does see the future in a real vision and not in obscure quatrains or poetic visions. Someone who can give enough detail to convict and doesn’t make a 1000 predictions a year with a few coming true. Would YOU kill a person based on the visions of one of these people?


54 posted on 07/20/2014 12:32:10 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Victor
The Romans' dispatch of Carthage belongs somewhere in this mix.

In terms of total numbers, not even close.

55 posted on 07/20/2014 12:36:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: WXRGina

Bookmark.


56 posted on 07/20/2014 12:36:43 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.??)
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To: WXRGina

A couple of opinions:

If Von Stauffenburg had just thought to have placed the unarmed 2nd charge in the briefcase with the armed 1st charge, it would have detonated and surely killed Hitler and probably every other officer in the room.

If Hitler HAD been killed on 7-20-44, I think the new German Commanders would have sued for peace immediately. They knew it was all over. They would most likely have had to go ahead and settle for unconditional surrender, it may have taken a couple of months to effect, but think of the millions of lives and destruction that would have been spared.


57 posted on 07/20/2014 12:48:12 PM PDT by Zman516 (Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: Pelham
We booted monarchy and established republics. Subjects became citizens. It was radical.


58 posted on 07/20/2014 12:49:47 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Zman516
Also, I think Hitler IS the most infamous mass murderer. His name is always the first to pop into your head when asked such a question. Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot would qualify for the most prolific mass murderer title.
59 posted on 07/20/2014 12:52:50 PM PDT by Zman516 (Thought-Criminal #1)
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To: virgil283
My guess would be this : "Hitler’s death might lead to a better-led German war machine"

I think you're probably right.......

It's fun to sit back and wonder "what if".....I'm a firm believer that events are pre-ordained and if we had access to a time machine, no matter what tyrant may be taken out during their time, another one would simply assume the spot.

60 posted on 07/20/2014 1:03:19 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
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