Alternative history - If Hitler had never been born...

finchy
finchy Posts: 6,686
edited November 2014 in The cake stop
... how would the digital TV channels fill their daytime schedules?
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  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    I didn't know he was Kim Kardashian's dad.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    johnfinch wrote:
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.

    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    johnfinch wrote:
    ... how would the digital TV channels fill their daytime schedules?
    Not at all clear how they would fill the History syllabus either.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Pross wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.

    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:

    No, I was too busy looking for more stuff about Nazis to annoy her with.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    johnfinch wrote:
    ... how would the digital TV channels fill their daytime schedules?

    Maybe with programmes about Ernst Graf zu Reventlow.
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    How does the song go about Hitler?

    Hitler, he only had one wheel....

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  • qube
    qube Posts: 1,899
    Yep, we've noticed this too... is it some kind of propaganda?

    Is there something I'm missing here?
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Pross wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.

    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:

    Then we could have had a RIP thread :lol:
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    arran77 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.

    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:

    Then we could have had a RIP thread :lol:

    He had his good points. :roll:
  • arran77
    arran77 Posts: 9,260
    Ballysmate wrote:
    arran77 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    I manage to annoy my wife on a daily basis by channel surfing and finding 2 or 3 programmes about the Nazis. Yesterday she told me that we Brits are so fascinated by Hitler it's a pity we didn't lose the war so we could have him as our ruler.

    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:

    Then we could have had a RIP thread :lol:

    He had his good points. :roll:

    I heard he was a thoroughly nice person :P
    "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity" :lol:

    seanoconn
  • debeli
    debeli Posts: 583
    Look, if there had been no Hitler then the National Socialists would have had no forceful leader and the Communists would have taken over the government of depressed and inflation-ridden Germany and then they would have got pally with the USSR and the USA would have stayed isolationist until December 1941, which they did anyway apart from a little lend-lease which we wouldn't have needed anyway but a Communist Germany would have palled up with Stalin up to a point and little Fascist Italy would have gone it alone with dreams of Libya and beyond and much of Central and Southern Europe would still have horrid despotic monarchies and Czechoslovakia would have become the industrial giant that Germany became and modern Daimler-Benz products would have been like 70s Skodas under Communism and we'd all hanker after a Skoda and Austria still wouldn't matter because it never did and the Maginot Line would be hailed as the greatest thing ever and we'd have lost the Empire anyway but maybe we'd have hung onto some of the oil for longer and there would have been no Bismark, no Spitfire, so no Kenneth More films no Cruel Sea, no In Which We Serve, no Too Late The Hero, no Lancaster, no Dambusters, no Dickie Attenborough being a plucky naval rating, commando, infantryman or whatever and no David Niven in The Way Ahead so no Dad's Army and also no KdF Wagen so no Volkswagen so no Porsche 911 or 912 and no Das Boot and.... what was the question?
  • crescent
    crescent Posts: 1,201
    johnfinch wrote:
    ... how would the digital TV channels fill their daytime schedules?


    Sharks and plane crashes.
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  • JayKosta
    JayKosta Posts: 635
    ... would your parents / grandparents have ever met?
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    No-one would have heard a song about anyone only having one bollock.
  • mxp27824
    mxp27824 Posts: 35
    Then Himmler or similar would have led the Nazi party and not much would have been different.
    It being Movember, I'm hoping to claim back the toothbrush moustache. We don't give people with side-partings odd looks (relatively speaking), so why throw out the stylish 'tache with the fuehrer-water?
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
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    mxp, is that you?
  • mxp27824
    mxp27824 Posts: 35
    I wish, that's some serious style there.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    mxp27824 wrote:
    I wish, that's some serious style there.

    Erm..er..ok then. I think. :lol:
  • mxp27824
    mxp27824 Posts: 35
    Takes all sorts, Basil. :)
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    On a serious note, it's an interesting question. Whether the Soviet Union would have taken Germany's place as the empire-building superpower in Europe is open to debate; Stalin only became expansionist as a reaction to Hitler's land-grabbing.

    Certainly, aeronautics would not have evolved so quickly - war is a great accelerator of technology - and the relationship between the UK and the USA would be different, probably less close. Plus Churchill would never have come to power, so a generation of Daily Fail readers would have to find a new war-monger to idolise :twisted: .
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    SecretSam wrote:
    On a serious note, it's an interesting question. Whether the Soviet Union would have taken Germany's place as the empire-building superpower in Europe is open to debate; Stalin only became expansionist as a reaction to Hitler's land-grabbing.

    Certainly, aeronautics would not have evolved so quickly - war is a great accelerator of technology - and the relationship between the UK and the USA would be different, probably less close. Plus Churchill would never have come to power, so a generation of Daily Fail readers would have to find a new war-monger to idolise :twisted: .


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  • florerider
    florerider Posts: 1,112
    Your missing the most important thing, there would have been no Isettas :(
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Apart from the italian ones, the brazillian ones, the Spanish ones, the French ones the Belgian ones... :D
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  • ukiboy
    ukiboy Posts: 891
    SecretSam wrote:
    On a serious note, it's an interesting question. Whether the Soviet Union would have taken Germany's place as the empire-building superpower in Europe is open to debate; Stalin only became expansionist as a reaction to Hitler's land-grabbing.

    Certainly, aeronautics would not have evolved so quickly - war is a great accelerator of technology - and the relationship between the UK and the USA would be different, probably less close. Plus Churchill would never have come to power, so a generation of Daily Fail readers would have to find a new war-monger to idolise :twisted: .

    Really? Stalin and Russia were expansionist long before Hitler was.. The Russian empire was large, cruel and imperialist. Ever heard of the holodomor? The Nazis and Soviets were one and the same - they embarked on the same expansionist policies, witness what they both did to Poland.. Stalin = Hitler. Same thing.
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  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    Ballysmate wrote:
    No-one would have heard a song about anyone only having one bollock.

    We would have substituted Armstrong for Hitler.
  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Ballysmate wrote:
    No-one would have heard a song about anyone only having one bollock.

    A question for all of you historians - which of the senior Nazis really only had one?
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    Pross wrote:
    I hope you pointed out he would be dead by now :wink:

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    What makes you think the Fuhrer is dead?
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Giraffoto wrote:
    Ballysmate wrote:
    No-one would have heard a song about anyone only having one bollock.

    A question for all of you historians - which of the senior Nazis really only had one?

    Fritz Einedangler
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -world-war

    Has Nigel not watched Back to the Future?

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