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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.

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ninpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think this answer kinda misses the point

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- SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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  - bhmnscmm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    OP wasn’t asking for an accurate answer. The question presupposes Hitler is convicted in the Nuremberg trials.
    
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  - ninpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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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    desconectado@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.
    
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- 520@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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:
  
  execute him on-the-spot
  
  torture him until death
  
  have their own trial for him in Russia before torture/execution.
  
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  - bostonbananarama@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    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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    520@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well in the unlikely event that he did turn up at Nuremberg, he'd be hanged just like the top ranking officials were.
    
    But if Hitler was captured, there's a slim-to-none chance he's living to even see that trial
    
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