Let's brainstorm the motives of a psychotic elder...

Just sayin' ,political correctness would have denied us Schindler's List

 

Okay, okay, you're both right. Sorry.

Let's carry on.

 

the aftermath of ww1 left germany a bleak , bitter place ...great for writing with somber hues ... you will wear out every shade of gray in your crayon box....ya dig ?

 

Is she killing him out of compassion, like a mercy killing. Or is she being forced to by her family?

 

A little of both.

 

If you want to avoid a Hitler in the offing, why not set the story in Czechoslovakia ?

 

I don't even have to include Hitler. It's in 1915, right? Hitler would most likely be fighting in WWI.

Of course, people will know what would happen in a few years (readers, I mean), and there will be folks in Germany that are anti-Semetic.

 

The next person to mention Hitler will be shot at dawn!

 

by 1915 there was a huge anti semantic rubbling ..why 1915 ?...what year did ww1 end ?....was not fingers pointed at the jews for the defeat ?..hitler did not invent the sentiment , hitler exploited sentiment

 

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Give us a paragraph Link the Writer, just to refresh roughly where you are.

 

You of German descent spinning understandable revisionist history ?

 

I haven't even started it yet, but the beginning goes something like this:

Helga peered into the library, where young Otto was leaning against a bookcase reading a moldly book in his hands. She smiled sadly. He reminded her so much of herself when she was his age. She fingered the Mauser in her pocket and her heart froze. Did she really need to do this? But the visions were clear, so precise. The boy would suffer greatly in the near future.

Pulling the Mauser out of her pocket, she aimed it at Otto's head.

"Farewell, my friend....forgive me..." she muttered, tears streaming down her eyes.

She pulled the trigger. Otto's body flinched, then crumpled lifelessly on the ground.

 

Wow, Link, quite the sober subject. You make me regret that I don't know more about WWI. But keep me updated on this, I really like the progression of your idea, intriguing!

 

Well, to be honest, I don't know that much about WWI either. =) I mean, I know how it happened, what happened, and how that lead into WWII, but that's pretty much it.

 

Hitler in WW1 was busy being recommended for the Iron Cross by a Jewish Officer.

 

Wow! I didn't know that. Very interesting. I also heard that the person who taught him how to perform speeches was also Jewish..

 

The evidence that Hitler was anti semetic is very weak - beyond it being a political tactic.

 

1915 --- The FED was just erected in 1914. The secret move is to get the Americans dragged into WWI (which happened in 1917) - to enrich a number of families in the US. The trigger for declaring war on Germany by the US was the assault on the Lusitania by U-boats (German submarines), May 1915. This was provoked. Maybe you can connect the shooting at the boy to this alleged conspiracy somehow?
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/lusitania.htm