I mean, I imagine he'd change his last name. But I'd also imagine nearly as many references in like... comedy media, as in more serious whisperings about whether that was a problem? It would seem sort of funny if Hitler's kid was the president or whatever of... uh... Singapore... and personally inoffensive about it. It might depend on his politics spin, he might have to have his speechwriter routinely decry Naziism in the most emphatic possible terms.

We look almost exactly alike.

Hitler's appearance is mostly famous for the mustache and slightly less so for a very dorky haircut, so that would be fixable in the Earth hypothetical.

Shiver. If it'd help.

I'm not saying, uh, whatever culturally concerning hair-related thing it sounded like I was suggesting.

I knew that! In theory. Human hair is different and has a lot less significance culturally.

I'm glad I showed up with a hair elastic, I wouldn't know how to make a ribbon work and it's too hot for a scarf!

Maybe we can switch to offering human visitors those and they'll find it less of an imposition.

You haven't asked about - where I was at the time or how old or -

Should I be? She seemed pretty clear that you are not yourself personally Hitler Junior. I suppose you could be committing unrelated war crimes of some kind but I don't really have a reason to think so.

You can ask whatever you want, or not, it's just that usually people want to know what they're - 

Shrug.

It's not that I'm not curious if you're up for a history lesson, but her description did not leave me very anxious about this. There was a war, survivors on each side are trying to coexist now, being immortal's probably complicating the heck out of that, hundreds of thousands of people died - I know that's a large number but Hitler's war did in like forty million and I think twelve million of those were, like, civilians he had rounded up and executed because he didn't care for their ethnic background and stuff, not even all war casualties - and you resemble your dad, who at least some factions blame for this war, but even someone reporting that fact to me and emphasizing how much you look like him took care to say that you weren't a murderer.

There is no significant dispute about who's at fault. 

Definitely don't have enough information to contest that, though there's a saying on Earth that history is written by the victors.

I think people are often fair-minded about the possibility there's plenty of fault to go around until you start sacking refugee camps, and that seems like a reasonable enough position to me. 

I concede that I can't immediately explain that one charitably.

It was very terrible, and they're all dead now, and hopefully we've learned enough it can never happen again.

It seems to be... a problem of not having enough information, somehow?

Yes. If people'd known how to be better then they wouldn't have been - that.

...huh?

I don't think people start out intending to be mass murderers. If they know soon enough that they're on a bad path they can be more careful and more responsible and have a better system of advice and counsel in place and put checks on their own power and not turn into mass murderers.

I mean, I don't think newborn babies are like "I'm gonna grow up to be a mass murderer" but at some point it does seem sort of... a little much to assume they were just confused and incompetent.

They were very competent. And they knew. But I think there was a point where if they'd known it'd end like that they'd have done things differently. We hadn't had a war before, people hadn't really thought about what it'd mean.

Huh. Okay.

They had flaws but they could have worked on them. At some point. It may have been a very very long time ago.

How long ago are we talking here?