This is assuming he’d have been found guilty for leading the Nazi government like others were.
Edit: of course it would likely be death, but was wondering what specific means of death would have been carried out for him.
This is assuming he’d have been found guilty for leading the Nazi government like others were.
Edit: of course it would likely be death, but was wondering what specific means of death would have been carried out for him.
If Hitler had been captured he’d almost certainly have been captured by the Soviets and the chances he’d make it to Nuremberg are quite slim. He may have been publicly executed or just disappeared. Considering how many soviet lives were lost in WW2 it’d be unsurprising if the officer in charge of his capture didn’t just take matters into their own hands over a personal grudge.
I think this answer kinda misses the point
An accurate, non Euro / Western centric answer missed the point even though this is a likely and valid outcome???
OP wasn’t asking for an accurate answer. The question presupposes Hitler is convicted in the Nuremberg trials.
The likely and valid outcome is what actually happened . The proper answer to the question is not to come up with another hypothetical
Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.
If somebody asks what would happen in hypothetical A, don’t come up with a hypothetical B
It’s not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.
But the Soviets were fucking ruthless against Nazi Germany. They were REALLY driven by hatred for them. If a Nazi soldier surrendered to Russians, a summary bullet to the head was often the more merciful outcome.
And it was the Russians that would have found Hitler first, so it’s far more likely that they would:
It absolutely misses the point, and so have you. It is a hypothetical whereby he was captured, turned over to the Nuremberg trials, and found guilty. That’s the basis of the hypothetical. Saying that wouldn’t have happened absolutely misses the point of the hypothetical.
Well in the unlikely event that he did turn up at Nuremberg, he’d be hanged just like the top ranking Nazi officials were.
But if Hitler was captured, there’s a slim-to-none chance he’s living to even see that trial, much less attend it.