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.

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      8 months ago

      An accurate, non Euro / Western centric answer missed the point even though this is a likely and valid outcome???

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        OP wasn’t asking for an accurate answer. The question presupposes Hitler is convicted in the Nuremberg trials.

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        The likely and valid outcome is what actually happened . The proper answer to the question is not to come up with another hypothetical

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          Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.

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            If somebody asks what would happen in hypothetical A, don’t come up with a hypothetical B

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      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:

      1. execute him on-the-spot
      2. torture him until death
      3. have their own trial for him in Russia before torture/execution.
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        It’s not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.

        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.

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          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.