It actually happened, and Hitler actually found out the name of the soldier on the British side who spared him -- he asked Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to convey his gratitude to the man.
Imagine: that guy has approximately 60,000,000 people's lives on his conscience. One fucking guy too lazy to kill one more German was responsible for WWII.
Another little-known fact about Hitler was that WWII came about because he had been afflicted by an illness going around at the same time as the Great Flu of 1918; an illness that baffled the doctors of its day (and still does) which somehow struck its victims down at first in a sort of "sleeping" phase from which, if they awakened, large numbers acquired a Parkinson's-like range of symptoms and underwent complete personality changes.
It's well known that Hitler had a Parkinsons-like tremor after turning 50 or so, but could this mysterious disease somehow have created the madman that Hitler became?
Two horrific coincidences -- one eminently preventable; and six million Jews might have survived and this world would be a completely different place.
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