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Originally posted by Jaron
No, I don't know of any other ones, but I've got two copies of Gleick's Chaos. :P
A point against killing Hitler. Why would you kill him, unless you were an Anti-Zionist? The nation of Israel was re-founded as a result of the targeting of the Jews by the Nazis during WWII, as the world sentiment at the way was that they had put up with enough so should at least have a little bit of land to call their own. If the holocaust never happened, would that mean the Jews would have... nowhere?
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That's assuming that the existence of the State of Israel is a higher good than (presumably) sparing the lives of 6 million Jews.
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Remember, although you may have saved a good many lives, many more would have been lost in constant lynch mobbing. The anti-semetic tendencies of the era, and of those before it, would probably be repeating themselves if something drastic didn't happen.
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An interesting point. But as some have pointed out, if it wasn't Hitler it probably would have been Stalin, and pogroms instead of concentration camps. And it was 6 million people. I have a hard time believing that even frequent lynch mobbing would have been able to kill as many people as the systematic murder carried out by the Nazis. And the Zionist movement was already underway by WWII, the war just gave it urgency. Perhaps if the war hadn't made people hurry so quickly to find a homeland for the Jews they may have been able to take some time and negotiate a better solution than the 1946 partition.