Hitler Escapes

Through some magic, ASB or just an unlikely string of bad luck, Hitler escapes...

Now what?
He'd spend the next couple of years hiding and recovering, probably just getting shipped from one safe house to the other without much control over his own fate. But by 1950 or so he is relative secure, healthy and sane again.

Since he has never been the man to hold still, he immediately travels back to Germany ready to 'liberate' his country. However getting there he finds that 1) Both east and west Germany are doing quite well without him. 2) Both east and west Germany are doing their best to forget him and 3) Certain no-one in Germany is signing on with him to turn the clock back to 1936.

Disillusioned he now finally commits the suicide he already planned in 1945.
 
"The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H." by George Steiner. A literary treatment, rather than serious Alternate History.

Hitler has been holed up in the Amazon jungle for thirty years, and is basically senile. An Israeli team tracks him down and tries to extract him, but while they're wading through the swamps, word gets out and everybody starts arguing and maneuvering over who gets to bring him to trial. The captors fear they might not get him back, Hitler recovers enough to make a speech in his own defense, and....

Also a very old Bob Newhart sketch where he is seated on an airplane next to a suitably aged but affable Hitler, who smiles and nods but doesn't speak as Newhart tries desperately to get anyone's attention.
 
Since he had Parkinson's, and a whole host of other ailments in his Untergang, I doubt he could travel far.

I suspect the Allies would put a price on his head. Any person (literally ANYBODY in the world) who could bring Hitler alive and present him to the authorities in London, DC, or Moscow, would get a million USD or a million GBP.

he'd have had some supporters until his natural death, so I reckon in 1969 or so, perhaps happy he'd outlived Churchill, Stalin, FDR and Truman, would turn himself in and get some cushy maximum security cell in the middle of the USSR or USA, or some top secret location in the UK (or some UK territory such as St. Helena or South Georgia).

Had he not killed himself, he'd probably die in the 1970s.
 
Not much of a point. His doctor had basically been poisoning him for years and he was suffering from Parkinson's. Even if he escaped he'd be mentally ill and in terrible physical condition. He'd die shortly after.

But with Theo Morell gone, Hitler's health might improve. Look at how the allies weaned Goering off his drugs and got him back into shape enough to stand trial. If Hitler finds a halfway competent physician, he could improve too (even then he'll be sitting in a wheel chair due to Parkinson's in eight years or so and be bedridden within another two years while experiencing the onset of cognitive decline, i.e. early dementia).

That said, the Mossad would make the effort spent on capturing Eichmann look like a walk in the park compared to what they'll do to get Hitler. The CIA, the KGB and the Stasi would be after him too. I find it hard to believe he'd die in freedom rather than stand trial. I wonder what his trail would look like That is if he ever does stand trial instead of dying of health issues, getting killed on the run or being declared unfit to stand trial.
 
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But with Theo Morell gone, Hitler's health might improve. Look at how the allies weaned Goering off his drugs and got him back into shape enough to stand trial. If Hitler finds a halfway competent physician, he could improve too (even then he'll be sitting in a wheel chair due to Parkinson's in eight years or so and be bedridden within another two years while experiencing the onset of cognitive decline, i.e. early dementia).

That said, the Mossad would make the effort spent on capturing Eichmann look like a walk in the park compared to what they'll do to get Hitler. The CIA, the KGB and the Stasi would be after him too. I find it hard to believe he'd die in freedom rather than stand trial. I wonder what his trail would look like That is if he ever does stand trial instead of dying of health issues, getting killed on the run or being declared unfit to stand trial.
I don't know if he would get that much better. Even if he did find a competent physician Hitler would have to weaned off drugs, get treatment for Parkinson's, and get treatment for mental illness all while in the middle of nowhere (which is the only place he'd ever be able to hide). Not exactly an easy task.

And if he was caught he would be tried even if he was medically unfit. The idea of letting Adolf Hitler die peacefully in a hospital bed isn't going to appeal to anybody.
 
Now what?
He'd spend the next couple of years hiding and recovering, probably just getting shipped from one safe house to the other without much control over his own fate. But by 1950 or so he is relative secure, healthy and sane again.

Since he has never been the man to hold still, he immediately travels back to Germany ready to 'liberate' his country. However getting there he finds that 1) Both east and west Germany are doing quite well without him. 2) Both east and west Germany are doing their best to forget him and 3) Certain no-one in Germany is signing on with him to turn the clock back to 1936.

Disillusioned he now finally commits the suicide he already planned in 1945.

He won't go back to Germany even if he escapes, he is being ravaged by Parkinsons, his condition is going to get much, much worse.
 
What if he follows in the footsteps of Alois Brunner, who hid in Syria?

Or could he try to hide as one of the many refugees if he shaves of his mustache and hair?

Or what if he tries to sell himself to the Allies as one of Hitlers own impersonaters or Body double? (Remember the movie with Michael Caine where Winston Churchill had a double playing him while he was in Jalta?)
 
An old sailor told me that he worked for Aristotle Onasis (Greek shipping magnate) during the late 1940s. His ship used to sit idle, in Northern Italian ports for weeks at a time. A family would quietly slip on board and hide in their cabin for the entire voyage, eating meals in their cabin and avoiding contact with the crew.
The shop promptly sailed for a South American port. They only carried ballast and a handful of passengers. The old sailor believed that the passengers were high-ranking SS officers getting their families out of Germany.

Hitler May have followed a similar route.

The big question is how many years he could have hidden on a remote ranch in South America????
 
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