"If you could ask Adolf Hitler" Topic

one question, what would you ask?

Define your own semantic interpretations, but assume he'd provide an answer.

"where would you like the bullet?"

Why the weird moustache?

"Why are you being such a jerk to so many people?"

Now you have been demobilised, where would you like your easel and paints? Some nice scenic watercolours should relax you

What was Hess's real mission? With the understanding that he might not know.

Quick or slow?

What's the weather like in Argentina?

How do you like my painting?

After offering him a meal of Matzo Ball soup, potato latkes, and maybe a bagel with a smear, I suspect it'd be difficult to have a rational conversation.

How hot is the fire your in now?

Have you seen a psychiatrist lately?

Who died and left you boss?

I wouldn't ask him anything … I'd just shoot him … repeatedly …

"How did it feel to lose to Kung Fury?"

Why didn't you have the sense to stop with Austria and Czechoslovakia?

Hows it feel to command the fifth largest army in Berlin?

Well played, Weasel…. that's gotta sting.

'Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler?'

Damn, I don't speak German! 8)=

Hey man…who cut your hair (you have to be of a certain age to remember this one).

Probably his mum.

So tell us, are you really a quarter Jewish?

Is the other one really in the Albert Hall?

My what an unimaginative bunch you are! Faced with an unique opportunity to get an insight in to Hitler's psyche or decision making the best you can offer is to trade cheap insults and threats?! Is no one tempted to ask a question along the lines of "What the *#€$ were you thinking when you (insert policy or event of your choice)?" Plenty of time for justice later, but an understanding of the motivations and descion making process of the man who caused the most catclysmic event of the mid twentieth century is surely worth pursuing if given the chance.

Dear Fred

We know what he was thinking on everything. He wrote it all down in Mein Kampf." Do you think you would get any clearer answer in person? The book is unreadable to begin with, and is a pure stream of consciousness piece. Besides do you REALLY think you would get anything like a rational answer out of him? You would get a four hour monologue on everything under the sun and it would make no sense. He was a perfect madman. I doubt he would have been able to answer in any way a rational person could comprehend.

Otto he didn't write everything down about his thinking during the war. Also I think you are way off the mark if you think he was a gibbering madman. You might not agree with his logic, but he would have had a reason that made sense to him. Besides as the OP said assume he provides an answer.

There is an old saying, "Dead men tell no tales."

Were you really an anti-semite, or did you just use latent anti-semitism in Germany as a means of gaining power? Essentially, did he really believe all of the Nazi stuff, or did he just use it, as any populist opportunist politician might, to gain power.

How long did you really expect the war with Russia to last?

How did you truly feel about Jesse Owens in the 1936 games?

Apparently Hitler was fond of his abilities and was congratulatory towards him when our own president didn't acknowledge his accomplishment…

What do you think about Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"?

-What is your preferred WWII platoon level ruleset?
- Don´t you think the panzergrenadiers are overpowered?

Were you aware that deploying your tanks hub to hub was unrealistic?

-What is your preferred WWII platoon level ruleset?

Don't see Hitler as a miniatures gamer. More of a board game geek. I think something like Drang Nach Osten by GDW would be his thing.

Why?

A game like that would appeal to his megalomanic streak and with his memory for detail he could probably play it to conclusion.

Do you regret using Battlefront to play test your invasion of Russian, i.e. Barbarossa.

phssthpok for the win I think…

Some of these have been answered here, I think:

youtu.be/slVgPDuwOHs

Or here:

youtu.be/0owrHJfMZHk

Why a German Shepherd, Adolf? Why not a schnauzer?

What was your involvement in the Thule Society?

First, I'm not sure there are hidden secrets that we could learn from Hitler. The man and his motives have been analyzed to death for over half a century now. Much more interesting would be asking other heads of state why they didn't at least try to stop him sooner. I'd rather know what the leaders of Japan were thinking when they thought they could get away with Pearl Harbor. Or why Roosevelt and Churchill ignored evidence of the Holocaust … many say it's because they knew they couldn't do anything. But they could have tried. And my favorite would be Truman. Mr. President did you really need to drop The Bomb and have the world live on the brink of nuclear extinction for the next hundred years? Would Roosevelt have used it or found another way? Lot of questions I'd love to ask leaders about WWII. But none for Hitler.

So what's the deal with you and Eva?

First, I'm not sure there are hidden secrets that we could learn from Hitler. The man and his motives have been analyzed to death for over half a century now.

True, but without the benefit of any input from the man himself, unlike Churchill who left memoirs, much has been written and proposed about his reasons for various military decisions with no definitive answers. For example I have read books on Hitler's Wave Breaker Strategy (which attempted to explain why Hitler left large garrisons in cities like Koenigsberg to be destroyed by the Soviets), one on Hitler's Balkan stategy which tried to explain why he hung on to the Baltic coast so long and didn't evacuate the Kurland peninsula sooner and another which tries to claim that one of the reasons why Hitler chose the Ardennes for his attack in the west in late '44 was due to some mystical connection with the German Volk and forests! A claim for which the author seems unable to provide any solid evidence. None of these are able to give a definitive answer in the abscence of any pronouncements from Hitler himself and thus remain pure speculation.

Fred: "but an understanding of the motivations and descion making process of the man who caused the most catclysmic event of the mid twentieth century is surely worth pursuing if given the chance."

I think we could get all the understanding we need from studying his picked brain and from reading his entrails. There's no need for me to hear anything he would have to say.

True evil exists and needs no explanation.

Dan

True evil exists and needs no explanation.

Sorry don't buy the "Hitler was just an evil madman" argument and therefore anything he has to say is irrelevant. He did have a narcissistic, sociopathic personality for sure, but an insight into his thought processes and motivations behind certain key decisions during the war would be interesting to me anyway. Your view may vary. Maybe I am just naturally curious.

He wasn't mad. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Dan

He knew exactly what he was doing.

Maybe so, but we don't, or at least we don't know what the decision making process was that lead him to pursue the attack on Kursk, for example, when it had no military or economic significance, the element of surprise had been lost and the troops that it was hoped would be bagged had been withdrawn from the salient. We know what decision was made and we can infer some things that might have impacted on that decision from the writings of those that surrounded him, but any conclusion remains speculation.

"How long did you really expect the war with Russia to last?"

There is one recording of Hitler's voice where he is not giving a speech (Mannerheim recordings) . In there he talks about how he was completely surprised by the number of Russian tanks. It seems to indicate they really did think they'd take Moscow before the snow fell.

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