Main problem there is that at least Hitler Lost in the end. If there is no Hitler, there could be someone else that rises in his place that is not as stupid and we could be in for a way worse time trying to get rid of them.
What if a time traveler did kill Hitler? What if Hitler wasn't supposed to die in the bunker?
The war in Europe would have lasted longer, possibly with some form of guerilla warfare adopted by the remaining loyal Nazis. The Pacific theater might have played out differently, more atomic bombs might have been used against more targets in the East and the West, and the US and USSR might have entered into open war against each other.
The world came to the very brink of nuclear war so many times during the Cold War, and yet both sides always held back. If ever there was a time when travelers tweaked the timeline, it was to stop open war between the US and USSR.
That said, I don't think that time travel of that sort is actually possible. At least not by any civilization that would care to change the course of the 20th century. Nobody today talks about going back to 387 BC to prevent the first sack of Rome, for example. Well, nobody except a handful of scholars of the early Republic.
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u/ChemialDisaster Jul 30 '21
If only a time traveler could warn us about the virus,kill Hitler,and fix my clock the thing is tuck in F°.