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.

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    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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        An accurate, non Euro / Western centric answer missed the point even though this is a likely and valid outcome???

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          OP wasn’t asking for an accurate answer. The question presupposes Hitler is convicted in the Nuremberg trials.

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          The likely and valid outcome is what actually happened . The proper answer to the question is not to come up with another hypothetical

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            Any answer would be hypothetical by definition… Not sure what’s your point there.

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              If somebody asks what would happen in hypothetical A, don’t come up with a hypothetical B

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        It’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:

        1. execute him on-the-spot
        2. torture him until death
        3. have their own trial for him in Russia before torture/execution.
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    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.

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

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

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

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      Did he only have one testicle or was that a typo? I don’t want to google if hitler had one testicle…

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        +1…Boost…LOL…I believe the bastard had one testicle and he was vegan who did not drink alcohol and smoke.

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    The trial probably would’ve lasted a very short time, and then he would’ve been hanged in 1946 or 1947.

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    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.

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    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.