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Originally Posted by Tonchi
It is difficult to say if the removal of any one leader at the time could have prevented any of these atrocities, because the nationalistic, tribal, and religious differences between the killers and the victims were already unresolvable in their minds before the slaughter topped it off.
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Couldn't agree more with all you wrote, Tonchi! And the reason why I said six million PLUS in my original response is exactly because we will never know the exact number who died thanks to the Hitler regime.
I picked Hitler to kill because there would have been a chance that the atrocities (at least not on that level) might not have occurred without him. He seized power by guile and force. He did not win the popular vote in Germany to begin with. Thus, there is a chance that Germany and its people might have chosen a different and better path had Hitler not been on the scene.
By comparison, killing Christopher Columbus would not have helped the indigenous people of the Americas any. Someone else would eventually have jumped in a ship and discovered the "New World."