Hi Adam,
I was imagining a "Ripper Party". What would it's platform be?: "Vote for us and we will clean up 1888 Whitechapel. With your support we will solve the crimes and avenge the Victims!! We also promise to get rid of all the lies and myths about the case - just forget about all other society ills for the next couple of years!!!"
In 1924 Henry Ford (who unfortunately was overly flattered that Hitler admired him for his industrial and engineering genius, and also his anti-Semitism (he reprinted THE PROTOCOLS in The Dearborn Independent in 1920-21)) ran briefly for the Democratic nomination for President. Will Rogers, looking over the Model T Ford that made Ford famous, quipped, "Vote for me folks, and I'll change the front!".
As for Fest's point about Hitler dying in 1938 after his success at Munich, I once considered that if Hitler and his closest associates (Goebbels, Goering, Von Ribbentrop, Streicher, Himmler, Heydrich) had been killed in a plane crash after Munich, the post 1938 reputation of Nevil Chamberlain would have been incredibly high to this day (except in Czechoslavakia). He would have actually succeeded in delivering "Peace in our Times", as he allegedly said.
Churchill might never have become Prime Minister after all.
But few such flukes really occur. There was a joke in the late 1930s about what would be a perfectly good piece of news for the day. It was:
Stalin's widow told Franco on his deathbed that Hitler was assassinated attending Mussolini' funeral.
Again no such luck.
Jeff
I was imagining a "Ripper Party". What would it's platform be?: "Vote for us and we will clean up 1888 Whitechapel. With your support we will solve the crimes and avenge the Victims!! We also promise to get rid of all the lies and myths about the case - just forget about all other society ills for the next couple of years!!!"
In 1924 Henry Ford (who unfortunately was overly flattered that Hitler admired him for his industrial and engineering genius, and also his anti-Semitism (he reprinted THE PROTOCOLS in The Dearborn Independent in 1920-21)) ran briefly for the Democratic nomination for President. Will Rogers, looking over the Model T Ford that made Ford famous, quipped, "Vote for me folks, and I'll change the front!".
As for Fest's point about Hitler dying in 1938 after his success at Munich, I once considered that if Hitler and his closest associates (Goebbels, Goering, Von Ribbentrop, Streicher, Himmler, Heydrich) had been killed in a plane crash after Munich, the post 1938 reputation of Nevil Chamberlain would have been incredibly high to this day (except in Czechoslavakia). He would have actually succeeded in delivering "Peace in our Times", as he allegedly said.
Churchill might never have become Prime Minister after all.
But few such flukes really occur. There was a joke in the late 1930s about what would be a perfectly good piece of news for the day. It was:
Stalin's widow told Franco on his deathbed that Hitler was assassinated attending Mussolini' funeral.
Again no such luck.
Jeff
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