Comment on If Hitler was captured, what would have been his punishment in the Nuremberg Trials?
520@kbin.social 2 months agoIt's not though. The question makes the assumption that he would have been handed over for the Nuremberg trials.
But the Soviets were fucking ruthless against Nazi Germany. They were REALLY driven by hatred for them. If a Nazi soldier surrendered to Russians, a summary bullet to the head was often the more merciful outcome.
And it was the Russians that would have found Hitler first, so it's far more likely that they would:
- execute him on-the-spot
- torture him until death
- have their own trial for him in Russia before torture/execution.
bostonbananarama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It absolutely misses the point, and so have you. It is a hypothetical whereby he was captured, turned over to the Nuremberg trials, and found guilty. That’s the basis of the hypothetical. Saying that wouldn’t have happened absolutely misses the point of the hypothetical.
520@kbin.social 2 months ago
Well in the unlikely event that he did turn up at Nuremberg, he'd be hanged just like the top ranking officials were.
But if Hitler was captured, there's a slim-to-none chance he's living to even see that trial