Talking about Hitler...

Imported from an older blog, on Ultimate Spider-Man 107 - Ultimate Knights pt 2

On the topic of killing the leader of an organization being pointless because someone else would step in, Daredevil says, "Not necessarily. They killed Hitler. And that was that for the Third Reich."

In the real world, Germany was bombed until most of the cities lay in ruins. The armies were beaten. Then Hitler committed suicide.

I'd like to go off on a tangent here: Do you know when the last time someone in Germany was killed by a WWII bomb?

November 2006.

He was killed during roadworks when the machine he operated struck a bomb that had been buried since about 15 years before he was born.

It happens only every couple of years that someone is killed (which is bad enough), but every year in Germany alone hundreds, if not thousands of tonnes of WWII bombs that failed to explode are found.

It might sound pretty self-centered, but, honestly, I think me being used to having about once a year roads blocked for bomb removal somewhere in my hometown or its suburbs is a big part of the reason why I react badly when someone makes light of war.