Fate of Hitler and high ranking subordinates in a quick allied victory.

As wonderful as all that sounds, perhaps you could single out what proposals you think are problematic and why?
 
I could even see Germany not allowed to have any sort of military at all for 10-25 years and be protected by some sort of international military commission, and only a self-defence force after.
 
Maybe if the USA and USSR somehow got in on it, but just France and Britain would not want a weakling Germany that could easily be gobbled by the USSR. Stalin probably wouldn't, but they don't know that.

That's why I suggested stripping Germany of its arms industry and keeping a permanent Allied garrison in key places. It feeds France and Britain's economy, doesn't completely waste Germany's magnificent industry, and allows them to keep an army to guard against the Soviets while making that army dependent on French, British, and Czech weaponry.
 
It could also have been where the Czech nation said NO to Munich and decided to fight on (Czech would NOT have been a walkover in any way. The 'Maginot line of the East = Czech forts were 80% finished). Germany might have exhausted themselves on the Czech border, totally opened up for a French quick invasion (if they could get the act together that is).

The Czechs had strong defenses along the old border of Germany... but not so much along the Czech-Austrian border. Hitler simply would've attacked from Austria.
 

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I can’t help but think a lot of this posted so far is viewing it through a post-‘45 lens. In the PoD as posted by the OP, the Nazis have been defeated in 1940 or ‘41. This implies a stopped and reversed invasion of France and probably WAllied (at least) troops on the ground in Germany. I can’t see the Nazis shitting a brick and surrendering immediately if the French cross the border, so I imagine you’ve either got an Allied offensive that drives deep into Germany or a General’s coup once Hitler’s bluff has been called (as they would see it).

Therefore, the idea that Hitler and the top Nazis would be executed out of hand (unless they’re done for in the coup - if it happens) seems to me to be a little unlikely. Up until the end of WWII and the revealing of the Holocaust, the idea of putting leaders of nation states on trial in an international forum had (to my knowledge) never been touted before. The Nazis in ‘40/‘41 hadn’t really got their worst excesses into full flow - especially if this is pre-Barbarossa.

Maybe some Nazi/SS/Gestapo types are tried and executed - for murder, or “exceeding their authority”, but I can’t see worse than jail time for Hitler and Co., probably to be served in Germany itself.
 
History suggests that there are very real dangers involved in putting charismatic dictators on the stand, particularly when they have nothing to gain (no possible verdict of innocence) by playing by the court's rules.

Dangerous it is but it is hard for a democratic government to execute or even imprison someone without a trial particularly if its a public figure that cannot just dissappear. It is the name of the game.

I would say overall the Nuremberg trials were a success.
Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu went on trial overall it went okay.
There was the trial of the Juntas went okay.
 
I don't see the french and britain keeping a strong Germany since the USSR and Germany were seen as allied together before barbarosa.
 
Maybe if the USA and USSR somehow got in on it, but just France and Britain would not want a weakling Germany that could easily be gobbled by the USSR. Stalin probably wouldn't, but they don't know that.

That's why I suggested stripping Germany of its arms industry and keeping a permanent Allied garrison in key places. It feeds France and Britain's economy, doesn't completely waste Germany's magnificent industry, and allows them to keep an army to guard against the Soviets while making that army dependent on French, British, and Czech weaponry.
They would want a strong Poland allied with Czechoslovakia and the Balkan nations, Germany just has to be stable. Given the probable circumstances of getting a German surrender the Ruhr has probably been wrecked in the fighting and the Entente will be very wary of letting Germany have industries that can be converted to war production as well as actual arms ones ( given the slight of hand Germany did to get around ToV )
 
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