If...

[Santa_Claus]

I would place the bullet in George Ws head. But I would direct it there via his asshole.
And please please can I have another for his daddy? Just for bringing him into the world.

Having said that, I'm still against guns, and would prefer to administer some nasty incureable disease.

Would that also be via the asshole?

[Svartalf]

Von Sternberg? Roman Fedorovich aka Ungern Khan?

[Red Celt]

I don't want to shoot anyone, but I suppose it would be quite good to have taken a pot shot at Hitler in around 1934 or 5.

Both films are top notch for me too btw!

Oh, Rum... so very much not. Imagine if the National Socialists had elected a leader who was also a competent military man. Imagine what would have happened if the leader of Germany hadn't attacked the Soviets during WW2. Just imagine how much worse the world would have been, then.

Hitler was a hideous human being, but he was also hideously shit at winning a war.

[Red Celt]

My bullet would probably have been aimed at Saul of Tarsus. Possibly while prone on a grassy knoll on the road to Damascus.

Imagine Christianity without that cunt-bag. It would be closer to Buddhism.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

[Don't Panic]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

Hitler set the soviets back by 20 million citizens, maybe 8-9 million of those were soldiers?
What would they have done to Western Europe without Germany to force them into a conflict before they were ready?

[macdoc]

Arminius prior to Teutoberg Forest battle.

No Hitler
No Christian empire....

many many other knock on

http://gvsu.academia.edu/MarkSchwartz/P ... ember_8-11

This is a very good read btw

What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (Putnam, 1999).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(essays)

[mistermack]

I would place the bullet in George Ws head. But I would direct it there via his asshole.
And please please can I have another for his daddy? Just for bringing him into the world.

Having said that, I'm still against guns, and would prefer to administer some nasty incureable disease.

Would that also be via the asshole?

Yes. Put there vigorously by Abu Hamsa, using his hook.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

Hitler set the soviets back by 20 million citizens, maybe 8-9 million of those were soldiers?
What would they have done to Western Europe without Germany to force them into a conflict before they were ready?

Wrong tack. I think Rohm would not haben been able to keep the reigns of power. The Nazi government would have collapsed sooner. No guesses as to what would take its place.

[Don't Panic]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

Hitler set the soviets back by 20 million citizens, maybe 8-9 million of those were soldiers?
What would they have done to Western Europe without Germany to force them into a conflict before they were ready?

Wrong tack. I think Rohm would not haben been able to keep the reigns of power. The Nazi government would have collapsed sooner. No guesses as to what would take its place.

I wasn't questioning that, merely the effects on the rest of Europe. Barbarossa may have saved Western Europe from communism, and it delayed the German takeover by 50-60 years.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

Hitler set the soviets back by 20 million citizens, maybe 8-9 million of those were soldiers?
What would they have done to Western Europe without Germany to force them into a conflict before they were ready?

Wrong tack. I think Rohm would not haben been able to keep the reigns of power. The Nazi government would have collapsed sooner. No guesses as to what would take its place.

I wasn't questioning that, merely the effects on the rest of Europe. Barbarossa may have saved Western Europe from communism, and it delayed the German takeover by 50-60 years.

I'm not sure about that. If Germany became a real democracy she could have mended the rift with Poland and bolstered Czechoslovakia. The united Europe would have been a tough nut to crack for Stalin's depleted military.

[Don't Panic]

Rohm might have succeeded Hitler in 1934. Things would have gotten much uglier if that happened, but the collapse would have come soon.

Hitler set the soviets back by 20 million citizens, maybe 8-9 million of those were soldiers?
What would they have done to Western Europe without Germany to force them into a conflict before they were ready?

Wrong tack. I think Rohm would not haben been able to keep the reigns of power. The Nazi government would have collapsed sooner. No guesses as to what would take its place.

I wasn't questioning that, merely the effects on the rest of Europe. Barbarossa may have saved Western Europe from communism, and it delayed the German takeover by 50-60 years.

I'm not sure about that. If Germany became a real democracy she could have mended the rift with Poland and bolstered Czechoslovakia. The united Europe would have been a tough nut to crack for Stalin's depleted military.

Would Poland really have entertained an approach from Germany in the 30's?
And if Germany hadn't gone down the route it did, wouldn't it still have been tied into the reparations from Versailles? Can't do much bolstering if you're giving all your money to the French.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Would Poland really have entertained an approach from Germany in the 30's?

Faced with a Soviet Union that wanted to swallow Poland and a Germany who wanted to make nice, what would the politicians do?

And if Germany hadn't gone down the route it did, wouldn't it still have been tied into the reparations from Versailles? Can't do much bolstering if you're giving all your money to the French.

When were the reparations renounced again?

[Don't Panic]

Would Poland really have entertained an approach from Germany in the 30's?

Faced with a Soviet Union that wanted to swallow Poland and a Germany who wanted to make nice, what would the politicians do?

And if Germany hadn't gone down the route it did, wouldn't it still have been tied into the reparations from Versailles? Can't do much bolstering if you're giving all your money to the French.

When were the reparations renounced again?

Germany stopped paying them in 1932 when the Nazis took power.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Would Poland really have entertained an approach from Germany in the 30's?

Faced with a Soviet Union that wanted to swallow Poland and a Germany who wanted to make nice, what would the politicians do?

And if Germany hadn't gone down the route it did, wouldn't it still have been tied into the reparations from Versailles? Can't do much bolstering if you're giving all your money to the French.

When were the reparations renounced again?

Germany stopped paying them in 1932 when the Nazis took power.

Hitler came to power in January 1933, just a few weeks before FDR was sworn in the first time.

And as for the reparations, if Hitler gets shot in 1934 or 35 are they a factor in anything?