How would Hitler be executed?

Except he never had them. The remains they admit to is the skull of a young woman, too young to have been Eva Braun.
They also have a jaw fragment that they checked with his dentist to be Hiter's. Now way that could have been mistaken for a young women's.

After his cremation, body parts of the suicidees were likely mixed up. No big mystery here.
 
He would certainly be "just" hanged with the other Nazin bigwigs, but his corpse wouldn't be buried. I assume it would be dissected in a search for a physical difference, anything abnormal.

If at all, his death would be as quick and un-damaging to the body as possible. You don't want to produce artifacts and fuck up the study!
 
He would certainly be "just" hanged with the other Nazin bigwigs, but his corpse wouldn't be buried. I assume it would be dissected in a search for a physical difference, anything abnormal.

If at all, his death would be as quick and un-damaging to the body as possible. You don't want to produce artifacts and fuck up the study!

Given the Soviet attitude towards eugenics, inbuilt attributes etc, I doubt it.
 
Actually, I think thius screws up Nuremburg big time.

POD: As the Red Army storms Berlin, Eva has a change of heart. She begs Hitler to flee to the mythical (and non-existent) 'Alpine Redoubt'. Hitler (who, let's face it, believed in phantom German armies at this point - why not an Alpine Redoubt) - agrees.

They flee the bunker, but are captured in short order by the Red Army.

Now, hand-waving away, the Red Army soldiers don't - for some almost ASB-reason - shoot them out of hand once they realize who they've got. The couple eventually ends up in Zhukov's custody. Zhukov, who just lost out on the glory of being the sole conquerer to Berlin to Koniev, proudly announces public (i.e. to both the Germans and the WAllies) that he has Hitler, hoping to regain that glory. Stalin in furious - now he has to share with the West. Or does he?

The war ends, the dust starts to settle, and Potsdam happens. The Soviets were happy to turn over Speer, Goering, and the rest to Spandau for a combined Nuremburg trial. But Hitler is a special case. It's not just Stalin - it's virtually every Soviet citizen. Tens of millions are dead because of Hitler. The Soviets people have no desire to share him, and Stalin is inclined to agree.

Now it gets interesting. Do the WAllies insist on Hitler at Nuremburg? Does it screw up Manchuria in August if the Soviets and WAllies have their first Cold War spat over Hitler's living body? Does Nuremburg happen at all? The Americans going for Rule of Law, the Brits going for that, and hey, we fought him first. The Soviets going for body count. Heck, some Germans may even want the guy dead, but I'll ignore them for now (Stalin would have).

Let's try this:
April 30th: Hitler and Eva captured.
May 5th: Zhukov announces he has them.
May 7-8: German surrender (as OTL).
May 10: Hitler and Eva arrive by special plane in Moscow.
May 15: Eva convicted in Soviet show-trial. Publically executed via firing squad. Hitler forced to watch.
May 20: Wallies request Hitler turned over to international tribunal.
May 21: Stalin meets with politburo. Informed he faces significant civil unrest if he does as WAllies request.

Now what?

Mike
 
In that scenario, Stalin just goes and kills him. The Western Allies aren't going to start another devastating war over Hitler of all things, and they aren't exactly going to be appaled either.
 
I was going to ask why the Stalinists would shoot Eva Braun, but then I remembered that we're discussing Stalinists.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Hitler would just be hanged after a trial, nothing more nothing less, to treat him any other way would delegitimate the allies.
 
One of the main reasons why the condemned at Nuremberg were executed by hanging was to deny the military men the "honor" of a firing squad, i.e. a military-style execution. Hanging them was like saying none of tme were better than a common criminal. Hitler most likely would have been the first one with his head in the noose.
 
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.

Deep and it sure would be nice if that were possible. Torture for a creature of such pure evil like Hitler doesn't seem good enough. He doesn't deserve to be tortured, it wouldn't produce the desired effect and would most likely not be effective.

But as a Jew I would hope he is kept within an inch of starving to death and then worked making boots or clothes for the survivors of the things he did for him. Do this in a deep dark hole until his body literally wastes away and than his body is burned. do unto others as they did unto you.

the other side of me says show him the compassion he doesn't deserve and actually give him a trial at Nuremberg just like the other war criminals and then death by American style hanging.

Another thought: Every person in Europe Russia and the US gets to kick him in the nuts once. Every Jew, Slav, Gypsy, Homosexual, and Disabled person twice.

Ultimately every option that comes to mind is just not satisfying enough or brings the proper closure that is necessary.
 

The Sandman

Banned
Actually, if the Soviets keep him alive until 1948 (possible if we're going with the assumption that Stalin wants to savor Hitler's punishment for as long as possible), they might send him to Israel as a goodwill gesture. And an attempt to swing Israel towards their camp, of course.
 
42

Can you imagine 42 plots to kill Hitler and all of them failed.how?And now you ask us a question that people really tried to do,but they failed.
They failed,but that doesn't mean that the SS worked very well,NO just he was very lucky.
But if you ask that question on Stalin i will answer no plots to kill him because of the KGB.
 

Penelope

Banned
Can you imagine 42 plots to kill Hitler and all of them failed.how?And now you ask us a question that people really tried to do,but they failed.
They failed,but that doesn't mean that the SS worked very well,NO just he was very lucky.
But if you ask that question on Stalin i will answer no plots to kill him because of the KGB.

He was talking about how Hitler would be executed in the event that he was taken prisoner after the war.
 
Can you imagine 42 plots to kill Hitler and all of them failed.how?And now you ask us a question that people really tried to do,but they failed.
They failed,but that doesn't mean that the SS worked very well,NO just he was very lucky.
But if you ask that question on Stalin i will answer no plots to kill him because of the KGB.

What. the. Hell. Dude.
Did you read the OP or are you too busy going around saying how Hitler and Stalin are apparently Butt-buddies?
 
Execution, shmexectuion.

Put him on mass-grave opening and reburial detail. Between the Holocaust and the mass executions in Russia, that should be enough to keep him busy for the rest of his life.

Bruce
 
Execution, shmexectuion.

Put him on mass-grave opening and reburial detail. Between the Holocaust and the mass executions in Russia, that should be enough to keep him busy for the rest of his life.

Bruce

Wouldn't he simply take the opportunity to relieve himself constantly on those graves? :eek:
 
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