If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials?

No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 60 points – 8 months ago

This is assuming he’d have been found guilty for leading the Nazi government like others were.

Edit: of course it would likely be death, but was wondering what specific means of death would have been carried out for him.

Hanging, like the others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_executions

That is assuming the Soviets would have handed him over. I bet Stalin would have him flown to Moscow for the biggest show trial ever. Ignoring most of his other henious crimes to focus on what he did to the Slavic people of the Soviet Union.

Followed by a bullet the head unless Stalin would have asked for some special public execution but I doubt it.

If Hitler had been captured he'd almost certainly have been captured by the Soviets and the chances he'd make it to Nuremberg are quite slim. He may have been publicly executed or just disappeared. Considering how many soviet lives were lost in WW2 it'd be unsurprising if the officer in charge of his capture didn't just take matters into their own hands over a personal grudge.

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It would drag on for years and eventually US Republicans would be calling it a "peaceful political movement"

I'm sure Tucker Carlson would do an interview with him about how well everything in Germany worked when he was in charge

“is it true you guys implemented a cart-return system utilizing a quarter as collateral? i just want to say, big fan. brilliant.

People were a lot more into executions back then. That'd be my guess.

The last ever lawful execution in Norway was for a traitor politician helping the nazi invasion.

They would have uploaded his brain into a supercomputer and then forced him to experience death six million times over.

Just kidding, he would have been executed like many many other war criminals throughout history.

He'd have been hanged.

There's basically no way he would've made it to trial as the soviets took Berlin, but he would've been executed like the others.

Probably something like Mussolini, captured by a random group of soldiers who made sure justice was served. Too bad it never happened, really.

What was it called when they would strap you to a raft, cover you with milk and honey while also force feeding you milk and honey so that you're slowly eaten by bugs and birds and stuff while also shitting yourself to death?

That.

I think you may have misunderstood the talk about "The birds and the bees".

Scaphism, although the historicity of it is questionable

How about the old "salted feet and goats" trick