What if you were sent back in time and trapped in 1942?

[Clive, Founder and Moderator]

Just a generic hypothetical. If you were trapped in 1942, without any way of returning to the present, what would you do?

Would you try and find a grandparent or other relative? Enlist? Try and change history?

Food for thought. =)

[Stosch]

id stay the hell away from stalingrad, i know that much

[Feliks, Moderator]

Where were you, in '42, eh?

Like that Kirk Douglas/Martin Sheen film: 'The Final Countdown'. Fun flick.

I would do like one character did: not try to change history but hook-up with a hot '42 babe (one who maybe resembles Katherine Ross) and make a ton of money in the stock market.

[Clive, Founder and Moderator]

HAHA. That was an interesting movie. Had a lot of potential. There is a Japanese anime with a similar premise, called "Zipang." I recommend looking it up if you liked "The Final Countdown."

[Feliks, Moderator]

Heh. :p

Or, 'StarBlazers'. The 'wave motion gun'.

[Karl]

Being trapped in an occupied and sparesly populated country, with identification papers, no credentials and lacking a social network, would have been rather dangerous.
The German Occupation Force, The Gestapo and (I'm sorry to say) the Norwegian Police Force (under German control) could at any time stop and check the indentity of any grown individual. With no identity papers, you surely would be apprehended. As no-one would have any knowledge of you, you would be suspected to be either a lunatic or a spy (possibly both). Interrogation, possibly torture, would follow - and execution would not be a too unlikely outcome.
In 1942 The Norwegian resistance was reorganizing after a series of arrests due to lax security, so they would be cautious of any form of approach from a stranger no-one could vouch for. If you should be able to make contact, you would probably be suspected of being an agent provocateur, and soon be left to your own devices.(Liquidation by The Resitance happened very rarely in Norway.)
To rely on the kindness of strangers would be difficult, as food was rationed.

Your best chance of survival would probably be to try to escape to Sweden, an action which would raise it's own problems.

[Clive, Founder and Moderator]

I was thinking if that happened, to enlist and see the war through to it's conclusion, but that's just me.

[Feliks, Moderator]

The more I think about it, the more I feel I would do it this way: I'd seek out people who are destined later to become famous and I'd make good friends with them. Then, when they catapult to fame, I ride along on their coattails and get invited to all the parties. They'd be forever grateful to me for 'spotting them first' and 'helping them up the ladder' with my 'keen foresight'. Imagine meeting a young Hedy Lamarr or Marilyn Monroe and getting cozy with them before all the other hounds arrive. Eh?

The question though--on a more serious note--would you slay Hitler if you had the chance--is a very deeply-wrought philosophical dilemma treated (I believe) by Salomon Rushdie? Or someone else famous. He basically concludes that the horrors of genocide and other ordeals are always due to befall us no matter what timeperiod we're in. Removing one figure--even Hitler--would not prevent things like Auschwitz. We're never safe from the looming of these horrible prospects.

[Clive, Founder and Moderator]

There are a number of books and movies that deal with killing Hitler. A lot of them are of the vein of "trying to kill him caused the Holocaust instead of preventing it".

Getting friendly with Marilyn Monroe sounds like fun. =)

[Stosch]

hedy lamarr omn0mn0m

[Feliks, Moderator]

I got a better one

Jennifer O'Neil


Summer of '42

My god.

[Stosch]

shes alright i guess (sarcasm)

[Feliks, Moderator]

heh heh. droll

if I ran into her today--no matter how old she is--I'd run my best game on her

you know what they say:
the meat is always sweeter..closer-to-the-bone!

[Stosch]

bwhaha