{"id":4595,"date":"2011-07-21T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2011-07-21T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:32:48","slug":"if-youd-had-hitler-in-your-guns-crosshairs-would-you-have-pulled-the-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/if-youd-had-hitler-in-your-guns-crosshairs-would-you-have-pulled-the-trigger","title":{"rendered":"If you’d had Hitler in your gun’s crosshairs, would you have pulled the trigger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

He knew how to manipulate millions to fulfill his mad lust for power. His master plan was to exterminate the Jews, subjugate any race that was not blond and blue-eyed – and to dominate the world.<\/p>\n

There were at least 18 attempts to assassinate him. The first was in 1939. The last was in 1945 when a young American soldier named Ira “Teen” Palm led a raid with the mission of eliminating him once and for all.<\/p>\n

Imagine the terror that could have been prevented if just one of those 18 attempts had succeeded.<\/p>\n

What if it had been you holding a pistol with Adolf Hitler in the crosshairs?<\/em>\u00a0What if\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>could just have arrested him \u2013 and held him for trial?\u00a0What if you could have prevented World War II?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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