He Could Have Shot Hitler

Subject: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 06:21 PM

Here's something to contemplate: this English WWI hero once had a bead on Corporal Hitler - then decided to let him live. The story is here. .

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 06:21 PM

Whoops! Down to BS please! (Not saying it ain't so, mind!).

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: skipy
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:00 PM

The butterfly effect?
Skipy

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:10 PM

Well, you never know about these things, do you? (assuming the incident really happened as it is said to have...)

Every human being has to decide in each moment what is the right thing for them to do, and Tandey did so. I cannot fault him for that decision.

People assume that without Hitler there would never have been a Nazi movement and another great war in Europe in the 1940s. Maybe so...maybe not. No one will ever know. The very punitive treatment of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles might well have led to the later rise of a very extremist government in Germany regardless of whether or not Adolf Hitler had survived WWI.

If it had, we'd have someone else in his place to label as the evil man responsible for the whole mess....

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:12 PM

A British rifleman could also have shot George Washington, but didn't. If he had, I might be speaking English or something.

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:15 PM

Yeah. ;-) Close call, eh?

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: John O'L
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:50 PM

Shot Hitler? But then my mum & dad might not have met...

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:55 PM

What - he introduced them? (Adolf the match-maker ... the many faces of Hitler ... ).

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 11:20 PM

Hey! Same thing for my Mom and Dad...

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 12:26 AM

and the professor on the Art School admission board could have let Adolf enroll.

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: guitar
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 05:35 AM

if he had I wouldn't be here

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 11:37 AM

Good story of a brave and haunted soldier.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 01:20 PM

Me neither. Which means I mightn't have met my wife. Luck of the draw, eh?

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Ron Davies
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 03:01 PM

Excellent article. Author notes that if Mr. Tandey had been of the "officer class", he would have been knighted. Is that true--you had to be of a certain class to have any chance to be knighted?

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Teribus
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 12:37 PM

"Is that true--you had to be of a certain class to have any chance to be knighted?"

Nope.

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 02:12 PM

I could have exposed myself to Princess Anne, but I didn't.

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 02:44 PM

I was standing next to Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP in a shop recently and didn't kill him. Will I live to regret it?

Subject: RE: He Could Have Shot Hitler
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 04:02 PM

Yeah, yeah - and I could've shot down some smart-asses on Mudcat, but decided to let them have their fun ...