WW2 What are you going to be and do?

[Mr Frost]

Place : Switzerland
Time : 1939ish
Position : Idol rich

Mum did not raise a fool :)

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by Alden Loveshade

I'd also love to be able to tell Anne Frank, "You and your diary will be world famous!" But I don't speak Dutch.

"Jij en je dagboek worden wereldberoemd" On the other hand a move that would help her not end up dead in her teens seems like a good idea.

[Alden Loveshade]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

"Jij en je dagboek worden wereldberoemd"

Thanks for letting me know how to tell Anne Frank she and her book will be famous in Dutch! I'll keep that phrase in mind in case I'm ever sent into the past to visit her and the others in the secret annex.

Originally Posted by Þorkell

On the other hand a move that would help her not end up dead in her teens seems like a good idea.

This is one of those "What would I do in my imagination where everything works out great" vs. "What would I do if it really happened?" My chances of knowing a better place for them to go than what they'd know of seems extremely unlikely. And I'd also be faced with the moral dilemma of "What if I save them all, and as a result Anne's book is just another teenager's diary and never becomes famous?" Simon Wiesenthal said the diary raised awareness more, and gained more sympathy for persecuted people, than the Nuremberg Trials. What if my actions changed history, and things got much, much worse?

I'll stick with being an uncredited extra in Casablanca.

[Donny Brook]

For three days during WWII?
I guess I'd try something I'd be unlikely to do otherwise -- be the Lama of a Tibetan monastery.

[Dr. Beckenstein]

Oberfeldwebel Werner Vogel July 20th - 22nd, 1944.

Instead of interrupting Oberst von Stauffenberg in preparing his bomb, this Vogel would step out of the barrack to smoke a cigarette.
And the I would like to see what happens.

[Sorenant]

Place: Brazil
Time: 1939
Position: Wealthy merchant

I'm not going to touch history with a 10 foot pole, God knows what mess I could cause. I'm just going to chill around for three days is some resort and get back to hopefully unaltered future.

[mr beer]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

You could be Stalin's most trusted bodyguard and put barbiturites in his vodka. That's not likely to make anything worse.

I don't really fancy spending 2.5 days in the Lubyanka with GRU sadists working me over.

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by mr beer

I don't really fancy spending 2.5 days in the Lubyanka with GRU sadists working me over.

That's why you'd do it on the third day.

[mr beer]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

That's why you'd do it on the third day.

Oh yeah of course.

Not very good at this assassinating despots thing.

[RyanW]

It faces the problem that all time travel plots face. I could save hundreds or thousands of lives by giving advance warning of Pearl Harbor, but would I come home to read history books about the 1948 Paris Airlift? I could assassinate Hitler, but do I know I'm not condemning Europe to suffer under a mass murderer with better strategic talent?

Put me somewhere I can't hurt history and it is unlikely to hurt me. Laundryman, USS Washington.