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This is fascinating to me. We all know that Hitler and Eva Braun committed
suicide in 1945 as the Soviets closed in on the Reichstag, OTL. Back in 1984,
after reading Len Deighton's alternate history novel SS . GB, I started writing my own alternate history novel. The plot had the U.S. Army arrest Hitler and have him in the dock at Nuremberg. IOTL, the highest ranking Nazis in the dock at Nuremberg were Hermann Goering, who cheated the hangman, Erich Raeder, Karl Doenitz, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, Hitler's banker, and later, finance minister. Raeder and Doenitz were acquitted. The charges against Raeder and Doenitz, who'd succeeded Hitler,
IOTL, were waging an aggressive war at sea and not warning civilian ships.
Both Raeder and Doenitz were acquitted on the testimony of Fleet Admiral
Chester Nimitz, who as CINCPAC, (Commander-in-Chief Pacific), had ordered
American submarines to do the same thing the German U-boats were doing in the Atlantic. My question: What if Hitler had ended up in the dock at Nuremberg?
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