Impact of a Hitler captured by Israel?

Let's say sometime around the time Hitler committed suicide in otl he actually decided to flee the country in secret and ended up in South America. The Nazi establishment unable to find Hitler and his whereabouts puts out the story instead that he has committed suicide and the war continues on and ends like OTL.

The Allies don't necessarily believe the story and rumors continue that hitler still lives but his actual impact has disappeared so there isn't much concern and more relief that the war is just over.

Now some 15 years later the Israeli government on a hunt for Hitler actually tracks him down and captures him. What do you think would proceed from there, as well as the overall ramifications? Would he be tried solely in Israel? would other nations seek a part of the trial or his extradition etc.
 
Would any country be able to actually extradite Hitler assuming he was brought to Israel whom i'm sure would be more than content to deal with him themselves?
 
Would any country be able to actually extradite Hitler assuming he was brought to Israel whom i'm sure would be more than content to deal with him themselves?
Hitler didn't really commit crimes against any specific country, he committed war crimes against all countries. And the biggest war crime of his was the Holocaust (of course there are many others, especially in Russia and Poland), which was perpetrated mainly against the Jews. So if Israel was actually able to capture him I can't see anyone with more or a case to try him themselves than the Israelis. On the other hand, I think it's likely the Israelis would set up some sort of International War Crimes Trial to try Hitler.
 
Hitler was a health wreck by the end of the war. Assuming he escapes to Argentina with enough money to make it without having to work and assure himself quality medical care, in hospitals with teams of doctors and not administered in his bunker by some personal physician, he might have survived the 1950s.

Let's say his health stays stable due to quality medical care, stress relief (especially domestic bliss with Eva Braun), and a healthy diet. He might survive being drugged and smuggled into Israel.

If he lives, there are multiple ways this could go. He might die in prison due to his poor health. He would have access to proper medical care and a healthy Mediterranean diet, so him surviving is not impossible.

From then on, either he decides to save himself and everyone else the trouble and pleads guilty, or the trial of the century takes place. I would not dismiss him pleading guilty, because as his OTL suicide proves, he knew when all was lost. He's hanged, and as with Eichmann, is cremated, and has his ashes scattered in the Mediterranean.

But let's say he realizes he's done for but decides to go to the grave fighting. Then, as I said, it would be the trial of the century, involving endless pages of records and testimony from hundreds or even thousands of people. He ends up getting convicted and hanged.

Also, the South American country that harbored him would have a lot of explaining to do.
 
Two trials.

Eichmann's is the "warm up."

And then Hitler's.


It would be freaking epic.

I would almost want them to not be executed, to be kept in cages for the rest of their lives, to be studied and prodded like the freaks they are.
 
Revenge fantasy's aside wouldn't Hitler have to miraculously be in good after ending a complete mental and physical train wreck around the end of the war.
 
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