The Primal Solution

The Primal Solution is a novella written by Eric Norden

and published July 1977 in The Magazine of Fantasy and
Science Fiction Vol. 53 No 1.[1]

1 Plot
An elderly Jewish scientist a Holocaust survivor who
had lost his entire family discovers a means of mental
time travel, which enables him to project his mind into
the past and take over the body of the young Adolf Hitler
in the Vienna of the early 1910s. Resolved to force Hitler
into suicide, the vengeful professor can't resist humiliat-
ing him rst and forcing him to drink sewer water in front
of surprised passersby, before making him jump into the
Danube but in the moment before drowning, Hitler re-
gains control of his body and returns home shaken.
The Professor is trapped inside Hitlers mind and is able to
hear him think The Jews? Why did the Jews do this to
me? I have never harmed them!" Able to access Hitlers
memories, the trapped Professor suddenly realizes that
until this moment the young Hitler had not at all been
an anti-Semite and was in fact on good terms with some
Jews.
Only because something inexplicable had entered Hitlers
mind something which totally hated him and was impla-
cably bent on his destruction, and which identied itself
as being Jewish and acting on behalf of all Jews did
he become the genocidal Hitler known to history. Never
daring to tell anybody of this presence in his mind, for
fear of being considered insane, Hitler would gradually
develop the idea that only by killing all Jews would he
be free of that haunting presence. In short, the very act
intended to avert the Holocaust ends up being its direct
cause.

2 References
[1] Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: Eric Norden

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