How would Hitler be executed?

Tried at Nurmberg and hung, politics between the allies (assuming OTL late war situation) dictates this. That said, what the sovs do to him before he comes to trial is going to be 'interesting' (in the Chinese sense).
 
I'd say we turn his remaining days on Earth into hell, literally. Try things that make Hell looks like a kiddy's playground like making him listen to the theme to 'Elmo's World' on loop or lock him up in a padded cell and force him to listen to every speech he's ever made.
 
declassified documents indicate Chruchill wanted hitler on the electric chair.

how about that: Kentucky Fried Criminal?
 
Seriously, this is a serious thread, not the 'worst possible execution' one.;)
What would be really cool, would be if he was actually beheaded by the Germans themselves, and then they hold up his head and say, "Behold the head of a traitor"...
It would be good for anti-German sentiment and PR, thats for sure.
 
declassified documents indicate Chruchill wanted hitler on the electric chair.

how about that: Kentucky Fried Criminal?
KFEGNLCOWCACBTWA?

Kentucky Fried Evil Genocidal Nazi Leader Convicted of War Crimes And Captured By The Western Allies?
 
He would have been hanged like the other major Nazi war criminals. By the way I believe that the Nazi top guys were hanged the American way - effectively strangled after a short drop rather that the then contemp British approach - which was intended to break the neck of the condemmed causing instant unconciousness and rapid death.
 

King Thomas

Banned
UK-Albert Pierpoint would do it, Hitler gets a quick hanging and a broken neck
USA-Hanging at the hands of Master Sargent Woods.He chokes to death.
France-his head is chopped off, possibly in public.
USSR-either a public hanging on Red Square, or a bullet in the back of the back of the neck from Blokin of the NKVD.

All four countries would cremate him rather then have his bones be visited by Neo-Nazis.
 
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.

What you mean like Bin Laden?

*Gets coat and heads for the door*
 

Commissar

Banned
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.

Except he never had them. The remains they admit to is the skull of a young woman, too young to have been Eva Braun. The fate of Hitler is a mystery and Stalin maintained to his death Hitler got away. Recent investigation of the remains of the bunker show it was indeed possible for Hitler to escape and also debunked much of the eyewitnesses' accounts.

The only way to be sure is for a Judge to order one of Hitler's living relatives to provide DNA samples to compare with the blood from the scrap of the Sofa the Russians have. All we know about the blood from that scrap is that it is male. Also the Russians need to release all the documents they have so they can all be examined fully. There is a lot of information in those files with regards to the final hours.



 
What you mean like Bin Laden?

*Gets coat and heads for the door*
lol

Anywho, there would definitely be a trial. They had those abominable troikas for people who were innocent - why wouldn't they put the man whose guilt is undeniable get a trial?
 
Hitler should be kept alive for study into the human psyche.

And no, I dont mean by torture or all that other bullshit. Sit him down with several top name psychologists, and see how his 'evil' evolved from birth to present. The info should then help us prevent another Hitler from rising. But, of course, all the short sighted fools want him to die a horrible death.
 
In principle I am opposed to capital punishment. In that sense I guess I do not believe that Hitler should have been executed if captured alive. I have to say I can see how people would wish to make that particular monster an exeption to any abolition.

As a matter of what is likely to have happened of course he would have been sentenced to death and executed at Nuremberg.

For whatever reason the allies chose not to have the executions in public in OTL. I do not imagine Hitler's would have been any different.
 
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