Nuremberg Trials if Hitler lived?

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The positive element of this is that it might reduce Hitler to a pathetic figure and reduce the mystique of Neo-Nazism and the appeal of fascism in general in the future.

Actually it might have the opposite effect; making Hitler a martyr and someone brave enough to face the wrath of the vengeful Allies.
 
Actually it might have the opposite effect; making Hitler a martyr and someone brave enough to face the wrath of the vengeful Allies.

Oh yeah, it's got all of the potential to be a PR disaster, especially if he wouldn't be competent to stand trial in a normal setting. The nightmare of course would be some torture-induced recantation.
 
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Nuremberg, early 1945:

"So, Heinz, you are not going to finish fixing ze Omnibus?"

"Zis bus? No. Honestly, Dieter, I have had an unexplainable feeling for days zat someone plans on using it to run over ze Führer..."

"Now, now, Heinz, why would you zink zat? Really, it is said on ze Funk zat we are winning ze War and zat ze new Wunderwaffen will turn back ze Tide any day now. Besides - why would ze Führer come to Nürnberg now zat his genious is needed for leading ze momentous efforts of our armed forces in ze Capital?"

"I know, Heinz, I know. But you know how I get, anxious-like, when I don't get any sleep when ze Allies are bombing ze city and, well, you get all sorts of ideas... I am just so worried about our dear Führer..."

"Dieter, we are all worried for ze well-being of our beloved Führer. But even if worst comes to worst, you not fixing zis bus is not going to help him. Ze Bolshevik, ze Amerikaner und ze Englander - if zey want to hurt ze Führer and don't have an Omnibus to hit him with - why, zey will only Railroad him instead!"

"I guess you are right zen, Heinz. I really ought to get back to work - some guy named Koch just called zis morning from Ostpreußen und said zat zey want to lease zis Omnibus for top Reichsmark. I guess zey really need more transport to better attack ze Bolshevik hordes up zere, what?"

Did you really write all this just as a response to my post, or did you already have this little gem lying around, just waiting for a Nürnberg bus reference? ;)
 
Oh yeah, it's got all of the potential to be a PR disaster, especially if he wouldn't be competent to stand trial in a normal setting. The nightmare of course would be some torture-induced recantation.

The coverage would be such that there is no way he would look good. The trial would be covered by Movie-tone News, the New York Times and the Armed Forces Radio Network in the US and by the BBC and the London Times in GB. They would be naturally synopsis and would cover all the ranting and raving while adding editorial comments. The official record would still be available but 99.99% of the people won't read that. They will read the 3 page synopsis in the New York Times instead. Any grandstanding stunt that would look bad to the Allies simply wouldn't be shown or written about. The Soviet press would be totally censored. There would be nothing covered that Stalin didn't want covered.
 

Wendigo

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How likely is it that the defendants who try to distance themselves from Hitler would be undermined by Hitler himself?

Nazi: I had no idea that the Jews were being killed. I thought they were merely being deported and resettled in the East.

Hitler from the stands: What do you mean you didn't know the Jews were being gassed? You took a trip to the camps personally and sent the reports to me with your signature on the damn papers you sniveling coward!
 
How likely is it that the defendants who try to distance themselves from Hitler would be undermined by Hitler himself?

Nazi: I had no idea that the Jews were being killed. I thought they were merely being deported and resettled in the East.

Hitler from the stands: What do you mean you didn't know the Jews were being gassed? You took a trip to the camps personally and sent the reports to me with your signature on the damn papers you sniveling coward!

Very likely. Well, swing dancing is popular in this era, and there will be a lot more of it happening in the air.
 
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