Could Hermann Goering have escaped the death penalty at Nurnberg

And even if Göring, Himmler, Goebbels and Bormann would manage flee to South America, their big ego would make easy to find them. They just can't hold their heads down. And surely Allies had already thought that. They have even analysed what Hitler would look like if he would shave his hair, moustaches or grow beard.

Also the South Americans would be leery about hiding them. Hiding Eichmann for cash is one thing, hiding Hitler is another. That would virtually guarantee a visit by the US Army.
 
And if not the Allies or the Soviets? You can bet your ass that the State of Israel will write Mossad a blank check and give them permission to do "Whatever it Takes" to ensure that they are found, and ideally, captured and taken back alive to stand trial in Tel Aviv, though naturally, if that should prove impossible, definite proof of their death is also acceptable.

The only problem I have with that idea is that I think he would be killed long before Mossad could catch up to him. The NKVD, the OSS and MI6 all would be after him.
 
The Allies might have a certain reticence about violating the sovereignty of a neutral state like Sweden or Switzerland if it's a "second tier" Nazi like Eichmann. They would still bring enormous pressure to bear to get them just the same.

But for someone like Hitler, Goering, or Himmler? I think the Allies would do whatever it took to get them. Which probably just means they suicide themselves before the turnover.

I very much doubt either Switzerland or Sweden would have thought of taking them in the first place. Any request for asylum would have been refused. Both were democracies and neither the Swiss nor the Swedes general population were pro-Nazi.
 

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That makes me think how would Israel react to high ranking nazi involved in final solution that was succeesfully hiding himself coming forward claiming his conscience doesnt allow him to hide any longer. Lets say in 1990s.
 
Sure, assuming the allies knew for sure where the top nazis were hiding. I'd assume, though, that had Adolf and other high ranking ones decided to try to escape, they'd enter Sweden, Switzerland, Spain or some other place secretly, under phony identities, and hide even then, at least for a year or two after the war.

There would be a bit of poetic justice if some of them ended up hiding in attics.
 
That makes me think how would Israel react to high ranking nazi involved in final solution that was succeesfully hiding himself coming forward claiming his conscience doesnt allow him to hide any longer. Lets say in 1990s.
There wouldn't be anyone alive at that point.
 
The only problem I have with that idea is that I think he would be killed long before Mossad could catch up to him. The NKVD, the OSS and MI6 all would be after him.

Mossad had a few successful operation, but it was against war criminals who was in hiding, in the extremely unlikely case Göring avoid the gallows and doesn't end up with a life time sentence, Mossad would be pretty unlikely to go after him.
 
That makes me think how would Israel react to high ranking nazi involved in final solution that was succeesfully hiding himself coming forward claiming his conscience doesnt allow him to hide any longer. Lets say in 1990s.

Not very plausible. Even youngest would be around or even much over 90. At least Hitler and Göring would be dead long time before 1990's. Goebbels too probably when he would be around 100 years old. Himmler would be over 90 and Bormann wasn't any younger. Even Eichmann and Heydrich if Czech partisans fail kill him, would are almost 90. Hiding would take much of energy from them.
 
Mossad had a few successful operation, but it was against war criminals who was in hiding, in the extremely unlikely case Göring avoid the gallows and doesn't end up with a life time sentence, Mossad would be pretty unlikely to go after him.

I was talking about them going into hiding. There was a considerable amount of thread drift. If he were tried and escaped the death sentence by some miracle Mossad would probably go after him one way or another.
 
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