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If you're at a table with nine Nazis and you don't leave, then the table has ten Nazis at it. History won't care why you were at the table, just that you were there.
I wanted to counter with a "what if I am there to kill the other nine Nazis?" but after reading the Wikipedia page for Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler it seems there's still a >90% chance I would happen to, in fact, be a Nazi.
That page is pretty wild; 2 that stood out to me were the following:
Imagine the sheer levels of stress these two people went through, starting at the precise moment of realizing their attempt wouldn't work.
42 known plots?! That's way more than I suspected.
And yeah, those must've been some massive amounts of stress!