Adolf hitler has been dead for more than 70 years.
At the end of world war 2, he committed suicide in a berlin bunker when he realized that he
was not going to win the war.
But what if, some way, some how, hitler was resurrected?
How would our modern society react to hitler returning?
Would they love him, would they hate him?
Surely there is no way that our society would allow hitler to gain power again…or would
they.
Today, life’s biggest questions asks, what if hitler came back to life.
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What if hitler came back to life?
Maybe you’ve never asked yourself that question because there’s no way it would be possible
with our current technological capabilities.
So how would hitler come back to life in the first place?
Maybe a mad scientist did some sort of frankensteiny experiment that resurrected hitler.
Maybe hitler never died and was cryogenically frozen, only to be brought back to life in
the modern day.
After hitler committed suicide, his body was burned, this led to some speculation as to
whether or not hitler could have escaped and lived out the rest of his life.
In 2009 some of the remains were tested, and they belonged to a woman who was 40 years
old or younger.
So its entirely possible that hitler did not pass away the way history has written it.
But for the purposes of this video, Lets not think about the specifics, and dive right
in.
If hitler came back to life, he would come back to a very different world, culturally
speaking.
Germany in the 1930s and 1940s was a place that erected for prejudice and violence.
Germany is very different now.
Hitler would be shocked to find out that jews have become essentially one of the most powerful
groups of people in the united states.
Poland still exists, and much of what he achieved during his time as the fuhrer has been erased.
He would hate the current chancellor of Germany angela merkel.
The rest of the world is very different too, culturally, technologically.
Our world is very diverse now.
Its likely Hitler would not approve of what our world has become if he returned to modern
day.
A film about hitler waking up in modern day berlin was one of the biggest movies in Germany
in 2015.
The film is called Look Who’s Back, its based on a novel by the same name by Timur
Vermes, and it examines what would happen if hitler returned to Germany in modern day.
In Look Who’s Back, hitler magically reappears in a housing project in east berlin close
to the infamous bunker where he took his own life.
He ends up meeting a TV producer, and he decides the best way to come to power is to become
a tv personality.
The film would document real life interactions between the man playing hitler and ordinary
germans.
Of course these ordinary germans didn’t think this was actually hitler, they thought
he was a comedian or a method actor dressed as hitler.
But Hitler would ask the people he met in public what their problems are, and use them
to his advantage.
Things like the foreigners who are arriving from outside the country.
What the filmmakers of Look Who’s Back Realized is how easily ordinary people would tell a
man dressed as hitler their issues.
In one scene, hitler persuades a group of soccer fans to attack someone making anti
german comments.
According to the filmmakers, it was extremely easy to convince the soccer fans to beat up
the person making anti german comments.
Hitler appears on a tv show called Woah Dude, where he goes off script in order to broadcast
his views.
The videos of his rants do extremely well on youtube, and hitler becomes a celebrity.
You might think that in this day and age, there’s no way history would repeat itself.
We live in a far different society than that of nazi Germany.
We must have learn from the horrible atrocities committed by hitler.
But as we have seen with the film Look Who’s Back, it is entirely possible to provoke people
to do something horrible by playing on their fears, and quite possibly, the masses.
According to one review of the film.
It was as if hitler never really left.
Maybe hitler wouldn’t be able to commit mass genocide in this day and age, but its
entirely possible that he could rise to power, especially with regards to today’s political
climate.
There are far right neo nazi movements that have gained traction both in the united states,
and in Europe who could be looking for a leader like hitler.
But then things could also go an entirely different way.
If hitler came back to life, and the world found out about it, he could finally be brought
to justice.
In most places however, capital punishment has been abolished.
In Germany, the current constitution of Germany forbids capital punishment.
For this reason, Its likely that this form of justice would be life in a maximum security
prison.
Of course, if hitler came back to life, everyone is going to wonder how that could be possible
in the first place.
The person who brought him back to life would also be brought to justice as well, as they
likely violated ethics laws in doing so.
And then the technology to resurrect people would now be available, but perhaps that’s
a topic for another life’s biggest questions.
But as always, the discussion doesn’t end here, I open the question to you, dear subscribers,
what do you think would happen if hitler came back to life?
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