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I expect that if Hitler were captured by the Soviets he would survive to stand trial at Nuremburg; the Soviets were very much in favor of the war crimes tribunal so that they could show just how bad the Nazis were, and putting Hitler on the dock will definately do that.
One thing I'm curious about; how will Hitler's presence alter the defense strategies of the other defendants? Will Goering and his group still try to pin all the blame on Hitler if he's standing right next to them? Will Speer and his faction still be willing to denounce Nazism and take a share of the blame right in front of Hitler?
Hitler would have been tried and convicted. The only real question remains is would he been the first to be executed or would the tribunal save him for last? Perhaps he may cheat the hangman by suicide just like Goering.The title says it best. IOTL, Hitler and Goebbels committed suicide in Der Fuhrer Bunker. What if Hitler had survived? We know that he didn't trust the
Gestapo after Himmler's betrayal. So he tested it on his dog Blondi. What if
Hitler was in the dock at Nuremberg?
If Just a question, if Hitler gets captured and is tried by the Nurembergurg Trials, would any of the soldiers who continued the war against the soviets in order to turn themselves in to the Western Armies, actually be granted asylum? I mean, I hear the didn't in OTL, but would they be accepted, or just turned back over to the Soviets?
I wonder how much better the Nuremberg defense would have worked if Hitler had been alive. IOTL they had to compensate for Hitler and other top Nazi leaders being there by hanging others. If he had, might the "I was just following orders" argument held up better?
Maybe he'd say that he was just following orders.![]()
I would have liked to see that.
No, no, the novel, not that IRL. However, if the US had managed that, they'd probably have also decided to tell the Sovs to go to hell about the previous agreements.Doubt whether many Americans would have.....to have lost all those lives to take territory that was then handed over to the Soviets as per previous agreements.
No, no, the novel, not that IRL. However, if the US had managed that, they'd probably have also decided to tell the Sovs to go to hell about the previous agreements.[/quote
Not if Roosevelt were still alive....
From ‘Warlords, the heart of conflict 1939 – 1945’ by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts.
Page 131
But as the war ground on, Churchill began to see a new threat to Europe – the man who had become the third ally in the fight against Hitler, Joseph Stalin. In late 1942 he told Anthony Eden: ‘It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarianism overlaid the ancient state of Europe.’
Roosevelt thought otherwise. As far as he was concerned, the cause of war in the first place was the in fighting between Europe’s ancient, imperialist nations and he began to see in Stalin someone who would help him in his great cause of freeing the world of that Imperialism. Also in 1942, in a conversation with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, he remarked: ‘The European people will simply have to endure Russian domination in the hope that – in ten or 20 years – the European influence will bring the Russians to become less barbarous.’
This is taken from ‘The Roosevelt Letters: Being the Personnel Correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vol.3: 1928 – 1945.