I am not so sure; considering a major personality removed from the mix implies a host of subordinate changes in timing, in the fates of hundreds or thousands of persons, and millions of ideas and thousands of millions of communications, great and small.. For example, perhaps Germany might have found that it turned for economic resurrection to an influential Jewish leader, thus obviating the whole major racial thrust of National Socialism. While you can often point to the results of an action it is almost imp[ossible with anyu clarity to point to the results of erasing an action. It shifts too many things by indeterminate amounts.

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