Hitler Lives: How Long?

Which country would be suicidal enough to try to hide him from the combined wrath of the US , the USSR, the British Empire and a large number of minor powers?

I remember reading somewhere that shortly after VE day Franco employed a number of german speaking servants who worked at his mansion/palace for about two years. Some people have speculated that Hitler did escape to Spain and lived on until 1947. It would be interesting to dig up Franco's garden and see if there was anyone buried there.
 
I remember reading somewhere that shortly after VE day Franco employed a number of german speaking servants who worked at his mansion/palace for about two years. Some people have speculated that Hitler did escape to Spain and lived on until 1947. It would be interesting to dig up Franco's garden and see if there was anyone buried there.

Sounds bin-Laden'ish.
 

Cook

Banned
I hear he’s doing quite well still; he’s the lawn bowls champion at his retirement home in Paraguay.
;)
 
What actual evidence is there that Hitler had syphilis?

None, as far I know. He had Parkinson's, and was paranoid, and gripped by bizarre "knowledge". But AFAIK he wasn't incontinent, or delusional (didn't see and hear imaginary things), or demented.

His sex life appears to have been limited - if he had only one testicle, he'd be less interested in chasing lots of women and less likely to catch the disease.

I repeat - what actual evidence is there of syphilis?

Yeah, it was my understanding that the syphilis story was British propaganda, as well as the one-testicle thing.
 
According to the font of all knowledge that is the UK tv program QI, Hitler was not mono-globular!

My understanding of the man is that his lust for women was limited, so believe that the STD thing would have been propoganda.
 
If the Russians had captured Hitler alive, Stalin would not have handed him over to Nuremberg and would have literally put him in the Moscow Zoo on display to the public. With top medical care he could have survived until 1950, but would have gone mentally insane within weeks of being displayed.
 

Dialga

Banned
If the Russians had captured Hitler alive, Stalin would not have handed him over to Nuremberg and would have literally put him in the Moscow Zoo on display to the public. With top medical care he could have survived until 1950, but would have gone mentally insane within weeks of being displayed.

If I was living back then, I would have paid good money to see that. :D

More likely, they would've executed him via firing squad - or worse.
 
In Gurps AE's Reich-5, he dies in 1951.

I once thought up a TL where he dies in 1955. But I'm not sure whether that would be possible.
 
I'd give him to 1953, 55 tops between the Parkinson's, strain of the war on his nervous system plus the effects of being gassed during WWI. This assumes that non-artificial includes judicial execution, which given the life cycle of a dictator of that magnitude does seem pretty natural.
 

sharlin

Banned
If he was captured alive by the Soviets he would have been dragged back to Moscow in an iron cage and probably the centerpeice of a very public show trial with Stalin and co in attendance, any request from the WAllies to turn him over to the Nurenburg trials would have been met with a polite but firm 'No.'

If as wd40 said he was put in the zoo i'd love to be able to see that, and possibly go along with something to throw at him if allowed.
 
If he was captured alive by the Soviets he would have been dragged back to Moscow in an iron cage and probably the centerpeice of a very public show trial with Stalin and co in attendance, any request from the WAllies to turn him over to the Nurenburg trials would have been met with a polite but firm 'No.'

If as wd40 said he was put in the zoo i'd love to be able to see that, and possibly go along with something to throw at him if allowed.

I reeeeally doubt any soviet soldier who met Hitler would have allow him to live. They would have used a good part of their ammo, just to be sure.

Capturing him alive its almost ASB.
 

Geon

Donor
Capturing Hitler

I reeeeally doubt any soviet soldier who met Hitler would have allow him to live. They would have used a good part of their ammo, just to be sure.

Capturing him alive its almost ASB.

A Soviet soldier who did shoot Hitler had better not brag about it too much. Orders were out from Stalin personally to find Hitler if alive and return him to Moscow or if dead retrieve the body. The Soviets spent years ascertaining the final days of Hitler and that the charred bodies they found in the courtyard of the Chancellory were the real bodies of Eva and Hitler. To quote one historian, the final and mysterious death of Hitler was "not to Stalin's liking." He wanted Hitler alive to face a terrible punishment.

As to capturing Hitler alive that is not as ASB as you would think. Hitler had several opportunites and means to leave Berlin. He could have been flown out by Anna Ritsch. He could have escaped in a protected motor convoy to Wilhelmshaven or Kiel and left Germany by U-Boat. More likely he was being urged to go to the Berghof and conduct the last defense of the Reich from there. The means existed to get him out of Berlin. The motivation (for Hitler) did not.

Geon
 
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