Hello, Mr. McDonnell. For my 9th blog post, I want to talk about the what-if project. My what-if prompt for this assignment was what if Hitler had been successful during the Holocaust. Some would say that he was successful, and I would honestly agree with that, but for the sake of this, let’s say fully successful. To start off, the Jewish population all around the world would probably not exist. If Adolf Hitler had been able to do that, who knows what else he could have done. If he had had the power to kill off an entire population of people, he probably could have taken over the world. Who knows, maybe that would have been his next step. If he hadn’t been stopped during the war and all of his captives hadn’t been liberated, he may not have committed suicide and went on to do much, much more. On his road to racial “purity”, any grouping of people deemed unpure could have been his next focus, so the world today would be a lot less diverse. Adolf Hitler could have also left a legacy for himself that carried on over generations. Maybe one of his ancestors or firm believers/followers would have carried on his mission after he died, meaning that even today our world could have been very different. If Adolf Hitler hadn’t been stopped (stopped after mass destruction, but stopped nonetheless), the war would have probably been a lot different. The war also shaped our world today, so there really is no telling what our world would be like today. That is outside the scope of this hypothetical guess because of the sheer size of the event that could have been altered. Another thing that Hitler being successful would cause is no Jewish people in our community or the world. The area that many of us live in today is heavily populated by Jews, so all of those people probably wouldn’t exist, including me. Sorry, I know that got dark, but I think it is ok to say because this is all hypothetical. All the inventions, movies, general media, anything created by a Jewish person since the Holocaust would not exist because the inventors would not exist either. To end off my what-if question, I think all of History would be rewritten if Adolf Hitler had been successful in his plans because of the time period in which the Holocaust took place. The world was in such a vulnerable state during the world wars that a powerful person such as Hitler could have easily taken over and wreaked havoc given a set of slightly different circumstances, such as his purification. I guess this isn’t really a slightly different set of circumstances, but a very vast change, but you know what I mean. As you can see, our world as we know it today would be very different had Hitler finished his plans and left a hateful legacy for someone just like him to pick up. That’s it, thanks.