How an Irish soldier saved Hitler's life

Apart from the saving Hitler story, I would be far more interested in finding out why 'a man dressed as a priest' stole the memoirs and how they turned up 40 years later and why?

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Apart from the saving Hitler story, I would be far more interested in finding out why 'a man dressed as a priest' stole the memoirs and how they turned up 40 years later and why?

Because the family have fallen on hard times and are shopping them to make a bit of dough?


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Yeah, I may get hopped on from a height for this, but that 'Hitler' story seems a bit far-fetched.

Edit:
Just had a check on the timelines, there's a hole in the story

At the time, the political group was called the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (DAP, German workers party). Hitler joined DAP on 12 September 1919. The party added "National Socialist" to its official name in February 1920. However, The Bavarian Soviet Republic was over by May 1919.

Sorry to spoil the fun - and to reveal that Brian Whelan and Michael McHale didn't do the basic 5-minute timeline check that would show this story to be sketchy at best.

123xxa wrote: »

Seems Hitler was giving speeches to homecoming troops in this period (1918-19). Story says he was recruiting for his new party - not that the party was fully launched. Geeky, perhaps you're not geeky enough.

Hello mr 1-post! Source for that quote? I'm also not sure about your deduction from it in any case.

Keogh's memoirs write, and I'm quoting: "They had come to the barracks as political agents for the new National Socialist German Workers' Party." The DAP was fully launched at that stage, though it was only a modest group of about 60 people.

Edit: just googled a segment of that sentence out of curiousity, and it's an amateur site without any citations. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf_hitler.htm. More to the point, the sentence clearly a reference to his time with the Education Department of the army. If you're going sign up to try and be pedantic, at least source correctly.

If Hitler had died before he came to power I still think World War 2 would have started and that Germany might still have been the one to start it. Germany had never forgiven the Allied nations for their treatment at the Versallies Treaty and had always planned on having another war, At least that's what I think I read(have to dig out the old history book). But my point is, Hitler encompassed the whole plan for war not only for his own aims, but the also because the feeling in Germany was mutual and that alot of Germans wanted another war. So Germany proberly would have went to war eventually. But whether Germany would have grown economically enough without Hitler, and have the power to start a war, before Russia did, as some theroies have said. No one really knows, because that's the thing about What If questions, you won't know.

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Maybe the War would have still happened,who can say.Hitler was an outstanding orator according to the History writers,and directly responsable for alot of support the Nazis got.Maybe other Nazi leaders would'nt have got the same support.

Goebbels was better imo.

Under a different leader i wonder would the impact on the Jews,Gypsies etc, have been the same .

Definitely. Do you think Hitler was the first guy in Germany to complain about the Jewish people?

and God for creating the world