Would Hitler have been allowed to be put on trial by Israel?

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I could legitimately see Israel threatening nuclear retaliation against some nation that tried to take Hitler from their custody.

He's one of those figures, you know.
 
I could legitimately see Israel threatening nuclear retaliation against some nation that tried to take Hitler from their custody.

He's one of those figures, you know.

Israel probably will not have nuclear weapons in the realistic timeframe for this . I think that it is extremely unlikely that any nation would try such a thing as forcibly taking Hitler from Israel. If tried, it would piss off Israel immensely, yes, but nukes? Even more unlikely, even if they are available.

A cornerstone of Israeli nuclear policy has been refusing to admit officially that the country has a nuclear deterrent, (going really to great lengths about it) and you cannot threaten nuclear retaliation if you don't state that you have nukes in the first place.

What you'll see, in my opinion, is considerable diplomatic pressure for an international trial. Little can or would be realistically done to force Israeli hand, though.
 
If such a trial was to take place, and we are butterflying his massive health problems that would have made him likely dead by that point or probably would have died from the trauma of the capture, I can only assume that he would summon enough energy for a defiant performance at his trial.

However, what his views would be is something that I am not sure of. Remember, in the last days of the war, he declared the German people not fit for the enlightened rule of Nazism and while he was always proud of his cowing of European Jewry, it would be hard for him to defend his views in the same way that he did before Nazi Germany fell, as his views probably changed from Aryan Racial Dominance to just a Nihilistic Anger at Bolshevism and Capitalism.

"Defiant performance" might equal with "long, disconnected incoherent rants" in this case. Which describes much of Hitler's speeches and writings even when he was healthy after all. :rolleyes:
 
I could legitimately see Israel threatening nuclear retaliation against some nation that tried to take Hitler from their custody.

He's one of those figures, you know.

Israel hardly would go so far. Firstly it hadn't nukes on 1960's and Israel not be militarist mad dog which would threat other nations with nukes or conventional weapons. Israel is civilised nation altough some left wingers says something else. Yeah, Israel has commited some stupid things but going war against other nations not be politics of the country. And Israel hardly get friends threating with war.

More plausible is that if Israel find Hitler's location, it just send Mossad after him.
 
If such a trial was to take place, and we are butterflying his massive health problems that would have made him likely dead by that point or probably would have died from the trauma of the capture, I can only assume that he would summon enough energy for a defiant performance at his trial.

However, what his views would be is something that I am not sure of. Remember, in the last days of the war, he declared the German people not fit for the enlightened rule of Nazism and while he was always proud of his cowing of European Jewry, it would be hard for him to defend his views in the same way that he did before Nazi Germany fell, as his views probably changed from Aryan Racial Dominance to just a Nihilistic Anger at Bolshevism and Capitalism.

Depends if he makes these statements if he's in better health and about to flee I guess?
 

B-29_Bomber

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Hitler's health was so terrible on 1945 that he could have live to 1950's only with miracle. To 1960's would be pretty impossible.

And Mossad hardly has much intrests give Hitler survive to trial defending himself. So more plausible is that Hitler gets serious lead poisoning...

...to the back of the head!:D
 
I think the worst case scenario (for Hitler) would be for the Soviets to take him alive in 1945. I imagine the NKVD would make sure it took him a long time to die.
 
Could honestly see a body of legal figures from the allied nations being drawn up just for Hitler. At the very least, there's no way the Soviets won't try and get involved.
 
Believe the Russians have first dibs.

going with that as well, and so do the Poles (although it would have been the Lublin Poles, not the London Poles on the panel)

as Israel isn't even around yet until 1948 the notion that Israel is going to get a vote seems unlikely
 

Penelope

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If such a trial was to take place, and we are butterflying his massive health problems that would have made him likely dead by that point or probably would have died from the trauma of the capture, I can only assume that he would summon enough energy for a defiant performance at his trial.

However, what his views would be is something that I am not sure of. Remember, in the last days of the war, he declared the German people not fit for the enlightened rule of Nazism and while he was always proud of his cowing of European Jewry, it would be hard for him to defend his views in the same way that he did before Nazi Germany fell, as his views probably changed from Aryan Racial Dominance to just a Nihilistic Anger at Bolshevism and Capitalism.

Considering Hitler's mental and physical deterioration towards the end of the war I doubt that he would be able to summon any energy at the trial. It is infinitely more likely that life on the run in South America, the collapse of his Reich, and watching the world be ruled over by the Americans and the Soviets, combined with his immense health problems would have driven him completely and totally mad.

And that is assuming that he somehow lives into the 1960s.
 
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