Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm’s real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone’s global headquarters.
Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm’s real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone’s global headquarters.
I disagree. Murdering Hitler would have been a necessity to prevent greater evil. An acceptable trade-off. But he didn’t deserve to be murdered. He - as well as the CEO in this post - deserved to be tried & put in jail forever. When chances of that happening are slim, well… Trade-off time…
Arguably, taking off on this tangent, murdering Hitler might have very well pumped the brakes on the Holocaust. Late-war letters and memos from German High Command mention that part of the issues they were having with manpower and materiel was due to Hitler’s insistence on running the camps, which was a serious drain on manpower and logistics.
Hitler was a puppet. They would have replaced him.
There is considerable historical evidence, both written and anecdotal, from Nazi Party and OKW staff that with Hitler out of the way, the German leadership would have sued for peace immediately with the Western Allies and frame their necessity for continued existence to serve as a bulwark against Russian Bolshevism.