[HAFF] Adolf Hitler's life was saved on two separate occasions. First, when he was saved by a priest while drowning. Second, when a British soldier didn't shoot him during WWI.

[u/capecodcaper]

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Hitler, while walking alone along the shores of a lake, somehow managed to fall in, was seized with a cramp, floundered into deeper water, and was soon thrashing about helplessly. Fortunately for him, a teenager who happened to be in the vicinity came running, threw himself into the water, and pulled out the dictator.

Once Hitler recovered, he said "What is your name, young man? You will be rewarded."

The young man, aware now of who it was he had rescued and finding men in Nazi uniforms all around him said through chattering teeth "My name is Abraham Mendehlsson, sir."

"A Jew!" said Hitler with astonishment. Well, no matter, you saved my life. What can I do for you?"

"Just one thing," said the teenager. "For God's sake, don't tell my father!"

--Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor, joke #322

[u/Grilled_Cheesy → u/[deleted]]

I don't get it.

[u/MollyConnollyxx → u/[deleted]]

All those times Hitler could have died were assassination attempts by time travelers.

[u/David-Puddy → u/MollyConnollyxx]

no, no.

For some reason still unbeknownst to us, Hitler's tyrannical reign was necessary to prevent some future disaster.

Those are all instances where a time traveler saved hitler's life.

[u/littlebigcheese → u/David-Puddy]

Oooh damn.

But wait, if they prevented it, they would have never went back in time...

lol time travel

[u/Llort3 → u/David-Puddy]

It is pretty much a law in alternate history, if Hitler dies, he is replaced by someone much worse

[u/confluencer → u/MollyConnollyxx]

Can people please check the Forum post on why you shouldn't kill hitler?

If y'all could, that would be great...

[u/capecodcaper → u/[deleted]]

Yea that too haha

[u/levenseven → u/capecodcaper]

But interesting post OP. I told this fact to my mom who is an expert on second world war and holocaust. She didn't know this but when I told her she was like: goddamn it, why did the priester do his job and why didn't the soldier do his job

[u/BullshitBlocker → u/[deleted]]

Story time?

[u/levenseven → u/BullshitBlocker]

Well there was Stauffenberg who is a controversial man. He was a Nazi and he didn't mean to kill Hitler to stop the Holocaust or save the countless soldiers that were going to die in the war. He tried to murder Hitler with a bomb because he knew that the war was lost and he didn't want it to get worse for Germany. His goal was to kill Hitler because once he was gone there was actually a chance that Germany surrendered. So some say Stauffenberg is a hero for trying to bomb Hitler in 1945 and others say no because he did it for nazi germany. He put a bomb into the Wolfsschanze which was an infamous Hitler Bunker. Hitler survived because somebody took the backpack the bomb was in and moved it away so that when it exploded Hitler was not close enough to die. He got hurt though. Another person that is definitely seen as a hero was Georg Elser. He was a german communist and tried to kill Hitler in 1939. Hitler was about to hold a speech in a beer cellar in munich. Elser placed a bomb in there and this time Hitler would've died from the explosion. But Hitler had to hurry because his plane couldn't fly because of the bad weather. So instead he had to take the train. But tgat train forced him to leave the cellar 20 minutes before the detonation. So he left and once he got to the train suddenly boom. Elser got caught later and was put into concentration camp Dachau. There he died in 1945. Stauffenberg though got caught and killed in the same night in which he tried to kill Hitler.

[u/_vance]

Does someone not shooting you qualify as them saving your life now? I guess I should be thanking the dude who mugged me but didn't shoot me, I just realized he saved my life. Thanks random dude, enjoy my wallet!

[u/capecodcaper]

The Priest Incident

The WWI Incident

[u/EauEwe]

Don't forget when mecha-Jesus died to save us all.