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Let's Kill Hitler

"....killing one man who did evil doesn't get rid of the circumstances and structure [White Supremacy (Racism)] that put him in the position to do evil in the first place."

The episode opens with Amy and Rory creating a crop circle, which draws the Doctor back to them. It works and Amy asks if the Doctor has found her daughter, Melody Pond. He has not found her. They are joined by Amy's childhood friend, Mels, who holds the Doctor up at gunpoint. She decides that they should go kill Hitler because they have a time machine.

They end up in Nazi Germany, crashing into Hitler's office. Unfortunately, instead of killing Hitler, they stop a new type of creature/robot from killing Hitler. It is called a Teselecta and it is a 'Justice vehicle' from the future. Hilter tries to shoot the Teselecta, but ends up missing and hitting Mels instead........Read more at Suite101: Doctor Who Review: Let's Kill Hitler | Suite101.com http://lauralemke.suite101.com/doctor-who-review-lets-kill-hitler-a386558#ixzz1YL74x5O0

*Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act:

If you time-travel into the past and then try to kill Hitler, it won't work as intended. It may even backfire.

(sigh) Great. Another one.

If you were given the power to travel through time and Set Right What Once Went Wrong, what would you do to prevent the atrocities of the past? Well, for many, the answer is obvious: kill Adolf Hitler. This would prevent World War II, the Holocaust, and their myriad side-effects... right?

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work that way.

First of all, it often proves near-impossible to kill the man in the first place — Like most dictators he's protected by various bodyguards and security forces. After all, the guy survived about 25 real life assassination attempts (according to The Other Wiki). Trying to circumvent these by targeting him before his rise to power begins will usually turn out to be ludicrously difficult as well. Locating a lone, disillusioned war veteran wandering around post-WWI Europe is perhaps the ultimate needle-in-a-haystack search.

And secondly, even if you do manage to kill him, something even worse will appear in his place; an even smarter and crueler Führer who ''wins'' the war for the Axis, or an individual killed in battle instead grows up to terrorize the world. If someone actually does stop Hitler, they'll almost always have to "undo" it to prevent this.

And worst of all, if you manage to kill Hitler with no backfire, millions will be saved and the second world war will be averted. So you get a Temporal Paradox, where you will have no reason to go back in time and kill Hitler, which means you won't, which means Hitler will live, which means that millions will die in the world war and extermination camps, this means that you will go back in time and kill Hitler... After a while, you'll start to get a little dizzy.

It appears to be a cosmic law that something bad has to go down in the period between 1930 and 1946. Perhaps it's how World War II defined the 20th century; the technological advances, the political foundations, and the example of man's inhumanity to man at its absolute worst that changed whole societies' perception of evil is ever present with us today. To imagine a world without it is to change everything. It may also be that Hitler, for all that he's considered the pinnacle of modern evil, is still a creature of his time and place; killing one man who did evil doesn't get rid of the circumstances and structure that put him in the position to do evil in the first place. (Or maybe it's because killing Hitler is such an obvious objective for time-travelers that writers feel they have to invent some narrative reason why it couldn't or shouldn't be done.)

Of course, there is also the Fridge Logic that says you could just go back to prevent World War I, which would likely get rid of the reasons why World War II started in the first place and make killing Hitler unnecessary. Although WWI was started because of much more complicated reasons. If you want this trope but without anything about assassinating Hitler, you are probably looking for In Spite Of A Nail.

(Interestingly, this doesn't apply as strongly to fictional entities working with Hitler. If you've got a Stupid Jetpack Hitler who's using advanced alien technology or something, it's usually ok for a time-traveler to go back in time and kill all the aliens. Presumably this is easier to swallow because we still wind up with the "correct" timeline at the end.) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlekz83hawz

Recently, Tom Cruise says playing an anti-Hitler plotter in his movie "Valkyrie" fulfilled a childhood fantasy.

In real life, the American actor says he harbors feelings similar to his German character, who led a failed plot to assasinate the Nazi leader.

"I've always wanted to kill Hitler. As a child, I used to wonder why someone didn't stand up and kill him," Cruise told reporters.....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/20/tom-cruise-ive-always-wan_n_159324.html

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"For the first time in one enthralling book here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that "assassination never changed anything " and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how close-and how often-history came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitler's rise to power and his ignominious suicide. Few leaders in any century can have been the target of so many assassination attempts with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitler's almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet up to now their exploits have remained virtually unknown buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs. This then for the first time in a single volume is their story. A story of courage and ingenuity and ultimately failure ranging from spectacular train derailments to the world's first known suicide bomber explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be "unsporting " and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death. It is also the remarkable terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invincible-a conviction that had appalling consequences for millions." http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Killing-Hitler/book-Td_GGZzLlUqxD678lN7DVA/page1.html

Again, now from the top:

""....killing one man who did evil doesn't get rid of the circumstances and structure [White Supremacy (Racism)] that put him in the position to do evil in the first place."
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'if you do not understand white supremacy(racism)------what it is, and how it works-------everything else that you understand, will only confuse you.' ...Neely Fuller Jr.

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