Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

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And did that war involve a complete repopulation of the geographic region that then became known as Germany? I'm not talking about the geopolitical designations. I'm talking about the people. Did the Germans people just all the sudden pop up in 1871? Did they rush in from somewhere else and supplant the Prussians?

First, Germany is still as federal and diverse as they come. Secondly, compare German antisemitism to contemporary antisemitism and you come up with the same picture in every country, except the Osmanic empire. In fact, the first ones to kill jews on German soil were the French crusaders of 1096.

Persecution in thge Western parts of what was Russia back in the 19th century was much worse. But that's an entirely different story.

I think we're getting on the same page here. There were 36 independent German states and there was a Napoleonic era in Germany. Yet it says German states and German territories. So I'm wondering, at what point did the name German arise? Were the demographics in 19th century Germany markedly different from the people who followed Hitler?

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