Trial of the Century: A Hitler is Captured Collaborative Timeline

April 30th, 1945: The Red Army arrives early in the ruined city of Berlin and arrests Reich leader Adolf Hitler.
You may want to alter the date for a start. Fuhrerbunker was not captured until the 2nd of May.

Likely would have fallen later than that if Hitler had not committed suicide, followed by an order for a breakout same day and then a surrender on the night of the 1/2nd. A more likely date is the 3rd or possibly the 4th.
 
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May 3rd, 1945: Hitler and Goebbels are photographed for the international world to see, whilst calls are made for justice against the criminal Nazi regime.
 

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May 4, 1945: American, British, French, Polish, Danish, Greek, Norwegian, and Commonwealth governments all publicly ask for a international tribunal and shared custody. Switzerland offers to host the trial for the United Nations. Privately the American ambassador in Moscow tells Stalin that shared custody in Berlin is demanded by Truman
 
May 5, 1945: Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro has a stroke and dies. Korechika Anami is named Japanese Prime Minister after Suzuki Kantaro's death

May 6, 1945: Acting Reichpresident Karl Donitz is injured in a firefight in Flensberg as fanatical Waffen-SS officers launch a failed coup in an attempt to prevent Germany's surrender but fail.
 
May 7th, 1945: Heinrich Himmler, the despicable head of the S.S., is captured attempting to hide from Allied soldiers.

May 8th, 1945: Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl sign the unconditional surrender presented by the Allies.
 
So, what do you think of the fact that Anami is now Japanese Prime Minister? Do we see Downfall go ahead?
I could see Japan being less willing to surrender, though it is ultimately Hirohito's call. The Emperor was still considered divine.

Besides, Anami was very loyal to the Emperor's will. That is why the coup attempt against the surrender failed.
 
I could see Japan being less willing to surrender, though it is ultimately Hirohito's call. The Emperor was still considered divine.

Besides, Anami was very loyal to the Emperor's will. That is why the coup attempt against the surrender failed.
Have you read Decisive Darkness?
 
May 9th, 1945: While in Soviet custody, Hitler gives a lengthy interview in which he denounces: "The slimy capitalist pigs who had to destroy my perfect vision! If my generals were more competent, our German brothers would be living in paradise at this moment. I hope they all burn in hell."
 
May 13th, 1945: Joseph Stalin agrees to have Hitler, Goebbels and the other Nazis in their possession to be handed over to the International War Crimes Tribunal.

May 15th, 1945: Himmler's request for a meeting with Eisenhower rejected, while Goebbels preached from Soviet custody: "The German Volk must stand behind the Fuhrer, as they no other means or survival. Disregard National Socialism and you might as well exterminate the German people".
 
May 17, 1945: Hermann Goering has a heart attack while in American custody. While some suspect foul play, nothing is ever proven as Goering was in poor health due to drug addiction and obesity.

May 18, 1945: Joseph Stalin gives instructions that the Goebbels children be seperated from their parents and brought up as "good communists" (read: indoctrinated in the communist ideology).

May 20, 1945: Karl Donitz orders the execution of the Waffen-SS officers who launched the failed coup againt him. Said execution, which is carried out the next day, is the last to be conducted in the Third Reich.

May 22, 1945: The Third Reich is formally dissolved as the Flensberg government is arrested en masse by Allied forces.
 
May 24th, 1945: Realizing that all out war against the Japanese would be too challenging to accomplish, President Truman gives authorization to drop three atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo.
 
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