Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials?

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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:

  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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