Irish soldier saved Adolf Hitler's life

TeddyTedson · 03-01-2011 11:23pm #1

Taken from here

The memoirs report a chance encounter with a young Adolf Hitler that changed the course of history.
Shortly after the Great War Mr Keogh stayed in Germany. While serving in the German Free Corps (Freikorps), fighting against Communist rulers who had declared a short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in April 1919, he recalls leading a military operation to save the life of the future German tyrant.
He had earlier met Hitler in September 1918 near Ligny on the French Border, where the pair were in the same Bavarian Regiment.
In his memoirs he describes how, as the officer on duty during the anti-Communist revolution, he received an urgent call about a riot involving 200 men and two "political agents", one of them being Hitler, in a nearby gym.
"I ordered out a sergeant and six men and, with fixed bayonets, led them off on the double."
Mr Keogh explained that two political agents, who had been lecturing from a table top, had been dragged to the floor and were being beaten.
"The two on the floor were in danger of being kicked to death. I ordered the guard to fire one round over the heads of the rioters. It stopped the commotion."
The group of soldiers managed to haul out the two injured politicians.
"The crowd around muttered and growled, boiling for blood," he added.
"The fellow with the moustache gave his name promptly: Adolf Hitler."
"They had come to the barracks as political agents for the new National Socialist German Workers' Party."

Interesting.
Wonder how things would have played out if Hitler was killed here?
Just goes to show the smallest things we do in day to day life can have a big effect.

figarofigaro · 03-01-2011 11:24pm

How dare him.

kippy · 03-01-2011 11:25pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Just goes to show the smallest things we do in day to day life can have a big effect.

Yep,
Been done before.
The Butterfly Effect.

Latchy · 03-01-2011 11:26pm

Didn't Adolf have Irish relations to ? pretty sure one of them was called Patrick to ( I'm not kidding )

johngalway · 03-01-2011 11:27pm

I always suspected the saying was true, now I know it!

No good deed goes unpunished.

TeddyTedson · 03-01-2011 11:27pm

kippy wrote: »

Yep,
Been done before.
The Butterfly Effect.

Tell me more about the Butterfly effect.

Also is it just me or do the Irish seem to be involved in everything!

partyatmygaff · 03-01-2011 11:28pm

Well he did the decent thing. He saved the life of a man who he once served with. Strange that one man saving a life cost the lives of many many millions.

af_thefragile · 03-01-2011 11:28pm

Isn't Hitler alive and living in Kerry??

Superbus · 03-01-2011 11:28pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Tell me more about the Butterfly effect.

...and so it begins.

admiralofthefleet · 03-01-2011 11:30pm

pre 1948

he is Irish because he saved mein furher

he would be british if he had killed him

TeddyTedson · 03-01-2011 11:31pm

af_thefragile wrote: »

Isn't Hitler alive and living in Kerry??

Well I'd say he did survive after WWII. Don't believe he gassed himself. Say he lived as a which doctor somewhere or something for the rest of his life.

Superbus wrote: »

...and so its Biggins.

Is this what you meant to say?

BraziliaNZ · 03-01-2011 11:35pm

I think H-dawg had some kind of relative working in the Shelbourne. Paddy Hitler.

steddyeddy · 03-01-2011 11:36pm

our history teacher used to tell us of a legend that hitlers half brother lived in ireland.

RMD · 03-01-2011 11:36pm

During WW1 a shell hit the the trench Hitler and his unit were in. Hitler was in a bunker, the rest of the unit were in the trench. A shell hit the trench and every person in the unit died except, you guessed it, Hitler.

03-01-2011 11:36pm

I can only imagine the severe facepalm moment he had when he realised what the guy he saved went on to become.

af_thefragile · 03-01-2011 11:40pm

RMD wrote: »

During WW1 a shell hit the the trench Hitler and his unit were in. Hitler was in a bunker, the rest of the unit were in the trench. A shell hit the trench and every person in the unit died except, you guessed it, Hitler.

This can only mean one thing...

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ITS A SIGN!!! :eek:

pablomakaveli · 03-01-2011 11:41pm

There was a story of a british soldier manning a machine gun during WWI who caught Hitler in his sights but didn't fire. (I think it was because he didn't want to shoot him in the back).

Basically Hitler was one lucky SOB. (Excluding the whole killing himself in a bunker in Berlin thing.)

EDIT: Actually there he also survived the bomb plot. Seems like the only one who could kill Hitler was Hitler.

Bruthal · 03-01-2011 11:44pm

If hitler had died and not been saved there, who knows what else might have happened between then and now. We assume it would of been better because millions died because of him. But there is no way of knowing what other course of events may have occured.

PK2008 · 03-01-2011 11:46pm

Hitler was real??????

I thought that was just a movie

TeddyTedson · 04-01-2011 12:06am

PK2008 wrote: »

Hitler was real??????

I thought that was just a movie

So you're not Jewish then :pac:

04-01-2011 12:07am

I wish I was Jewish- just for the money bag they wear around their neck.

the_syco · 04-01-2011 12:10am

robbie7730 wrote: »

If hitler had died and not been saved there, who knows what else might have happened between then and now. We assume it would of been better because millions died because of him. But there is no way of knowing what other course of events may have occured.

Agreed. Hitlers health was going down like a lead ballon. Had someone healthy been in charge, they may have made some better military choices, such as not attacking Russia when he did, and fighting only the one front at a time. Had France been taken, and then Russia hit in the spring, the nuking of Japan may have not been seen as such a "final" part of the war to a healthy commander.

"What if" is not awlays a good thing. Sometimes, when one monster is killed, another one is awaiting just behind him.

ascanbe · 04-01-2011 12:14am

pablomakaveli wrote: »

There was a story of a british soldier manning a machine gun during WWI who caught Hitler in his sights but didn't fire. (I think it was because he didn't want to shoot him in the back).

Basically Hitler was one lucky SOB. (Excluding the whole killing himself in a bunker in Berlin thing.)

EDIT: Actually there he also survived the bomb plot. Seems like the only one who could kill Hitler was Hitler.

Either that or people just made up a bunch of stories about him.

cassid · 04-01-2011 12:18am

Latchy wrote: »

Didn't Adolf have Irish relations to ? pretty sure one of them was called Patrick to ( I'm not kidding )

There was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew I think of Hitler and his mother was Irish. Can't remember the mothers name, but William Patrick did go to Germany to get a "good" job from his uncle

kowloon · 04-01-2011 12:27am

Stephen Fry wrote a book where someone used time travel to make Hitlers Dad infertile. Things turn out worse and hilarity ensues. Book's called Making History.

walrusgumble · 04-01-2011 12:28am

cassid wrote: »

There was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew I think of Hitler and his mother was Irish. Can't remember the mothers name, but William Patrick did go to Germany to get a "good" job from his uncle

i think he wrote a book about him too. i think he was also the nephew who went to the US and joined the US army. Obviously they have all changed their names,

Killer Pigeon · 04-01-2011 12:29am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Taken from here

Interesting.
Wonder how things would have played out if Hitler was killed here?
Just goes to show the smallest things we do in day to day life can have a big effect.

Teddy, I'm very concerned. Remember I told you about that little website especially for people like you? Erm, how long exactly did you spend on it?

TeddyTedson · 04-01-2011 12:37am

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Teddy, I'm very concerned. Remember I told you about that little website especially for people like you? Erm, how long exactly did you spend on it?

Lul.
I'm not for wars.

Killer Pigeon · 04-01-2011 12:39am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Lul.
I'm not for wars.

Maybe, but you need to get a room with Adolf Hitler.

CorkMan · 04-01-2011 12:45am

af_thefragile wrote: »

Isn't Hitler alive and living in Kerry??

No, he is on a beach in Cuba smoking a joint with Elvis and 2Pac.

TeddyTedson · 04-01-2011 12:46am

CorkMan wrote: »

No, he is on a beach in Cuba smoking a joint with Elvis and 2Pac.

and Michael Jackson

Irish soldier saved Adolf Hitler's life

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