How would Hitler be executed?

Inspired to some extent by a more recent thread, what would happen if for whatever reason the Allies decided to let the Soviets do what they pleased with Hitler in the event of his capture, and then the Red Army going on to seize him in Berlin? Now, irrespective of whether Stalin will grant him a trial, Hitler will die. Would Stalin torture him to death in the Lubyanka, or give a grand ceremony in Red Square?
 
Stalin would want to make a very public statement with the execution of Hitler, it would serve his purposes far better, too bad drawing and quartering went out of style in the middle ages.
 
Hung by the neck until dead, just like the other big names. Knowing Joe Stalin, it'll be filmed and probably spliced into the beginning of every Soviet film reel for the next decade.
 
I was under the impression that Hitler killed himself partly out of the fear that he would be dragged into Red Square and then shot (or worse). Of course, with a person as paranoid as the Fuhrer we can't really take this to heart but I would assume that his execution would be somewhat more of an event than for the other leading Nazis.

Of course, if For All Time he just gets hung (though that is mainly down to his paralysis) but if Stalin has his way he would perhaps get killed in a way more, ahem, entertaining for the masses.
 
Hung by the neck until dead, just like the other big names. Knowing Joe Stalin, it'll be filmed and probably spliced into the beginning of every Soviet film reel for the next decade.

Well, if he was in the custody of the Western allies, I would agree. But hanging wasn't so much Stalin's style.

More likely, Hitler is tortured until he makes a groveling confession of his crimes...both real and whatever imagined crimes Stalin dreams up...in a public show trial. This is filmed and shown in Soviet newsreels for decades afterwards.

Afterward, Hitler's battered husk...all that remains after the NKVD get through with him...is taken into the bowels of Lubyanka prison, and a pistol shot is administered behind the right ear. This too, is filmed, but the film goes into a secret NKVD archive and is not seen until after the end of the Cold War. Hitler's body is burned, and his remains are scattered over the Black Sea.

The world is left to wonder just what the final fate of Hitler's remains actually was...Stalin liked having that be a mystery in OTL, and I see no reason that would be different here.
 
Hitler is marched from his jail cell to the gallows at Red Square, with hundreds of Soviet dignitaries (including Stalin himself) watching. As he nears his fate, Hitler notices something odd about the gallows. First, it appears that the entire apparatus is set at ground level, with no trap doors. Finally, the rope in which he is about to be hanged by is only as long as the top of the gallows to his neck.

The noose is now fitted snugly along Hitlers neck. Everyone waits for ten agonizing minutes while nothing happens. An officer then looks at Stalin, who gives him a nod. The officer now pulls his revolver, and promptly shoots Hitler at his right knee.

Hitler screams, as the crowd in Red Square cheers at the latest development. Hitler struggles to stand up with his remaining leg in a last ditch effort to avoid hanging himself. Thirty minutes later, the officer takes aim at his left knee...
 
depends who gets him.

US-Uk-France might go through a trial followed by Public Hanging.

USSR....parade him around for a while, and once the festivities die down, have him shot somewhere, and bones hidden.
 
Stalin most likely either shoots him publicly with his own gun, or hangs him publicly. Or turns him into his manservant.

The Western Allies just hang him.
 
Stalin gathers a big crowd in Red Square, put Hitler in the middle, and has him stoned/mauled to death by the masses, who will also trample each other as well.
 
Hitler is marched from his jail cell to the gallows at Red Square, with hundreds of Soviet dignitaries (including Stalin himself) watching. As he nears his fate, Hitler notices something odd about the gallows. First, it appears that the entire apparatus is set at ground level, with no trap doors. Finally, the rope in which he is about to be hanged by is only as long as the top of the gallows to his neck.

The noose is now fitted snugly along Hitlers neck. Everyone waits for ten agonizing minutes while nothing happens. An officer then looks at Stalin, who gives him a nod. The officer now pulls his revolver, and promptly shoots Hitler at his right knee.

Hitler screams, as the crowd in Red Square cheers at the latest development. Hitler struggles to stand up with his remaining leg in a last ditch effort to avoid hanging himself. Thirty minutes later, the officer takes aim at his left knee...
I really like that idea!
For some reason I am reminded of the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
 
Is there any reasonable chance that the Soviets would claim that he escaped - after an execution, of course. Having Adolf Hitler supposedly at-large would give them a really effective scapegoat whenever anything went wrong.
 
Execute him in any way you wish. Just don't leave his remains lying around anywhere lest his burial ground becomes a neo-Nazi shrine. Think Spandau Prison.
 
Western Allies - hung at Spandau in front of audience of high-ranking Allied officers and senior Nazi military and civilan officials.
Stalin - what else but a Zyklon B capsule? Filmed.:D
 
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