Adolf Hitler sits in his Berlin bunker, shaking
uncontrollably in fear. From the other side of the reinforced door
he hears the screams of his soldiers as they are gunned down by the bloodthirsty Soviet
forces that have taken over the city. There is no way out, and he is unable to take
his own life as his cyanide capsules and firearm were mistakenly left in the main room of the
bunker when he was rushed into the safe room. Hitler notices that the battle beyond the
reinforced steel hatch has gone eerily quiet. He puts his ear up to the cool metal and listens. He can just make out a series of voices that
appear to be speaking in Russian. As he listens more closely, he hears a ticking
sound. It's as if there is a clock counting down
to something on the other side of the door. His eyes open wide. He dives to the far side of the room and seeks
cover. A moment later, there is an explosion. The door lets out a groan as it falls to the
floor with a thud. The dust and smoke settle; dozens of armed
Soviet soldiers enter the chamber. They find Adolf Hitler cowering on the floor
in the fetal position. They have successfully captured the monster
who has caused so much pain and death across the world. The question is what to do with him now. There are three different scenarios that might
have unfolded if Hitler was captured during World War II based on when this event occurred. It is important to note that there is no way
of actually knowing what would happen if the Allies had captured Hitler, but based on historical
documents and statements by leaders at the time, we can make some educated guesses. Scenario 1: What if Hitler was captured by
allied forces towards the end of World War II? Adolf Hitler is now in the hands of Soviet
forces. Over the past several months, they have fought
a brutal campaign to push Nazi forces out of their homeland and have now taken the fight
to Germany. They ravished the countryside as they slowly
made their way into Berlin. Entire towns were burnt to the ground, naval
facilities were pillaged, and airfields were confiscated. But it is the stories of what the Red Army
does to German citizens and Nazi sympathizers that instills fear in the region. After the siege of their homeland, the Soviets
are taking no prisoners, and torture is a common occurrence. As this was happening, Hitler couldn’t believe
what his generals were telling him. His forces were being defeated on all fronts. It seemed that there was no longer any hope
of turning the war around but he ordered his men to continue fighting anyways. He would rather sacrifice every Aryan in Germany
than willingly surrender to Allied forces. From his bunker, Hitler worked with his advisors
to find some way out of their predicament. But as the Soviets crashed through their defenses,
Hitler considered plan B, taking his own life. Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances,
Adolf Hitler is now in the hands of Red Army soldiers. He is dragged from the bunker and greeted
by thousands of cheering Soviets. They hurl curses at the monster who started
World War II as his actions lead to the deaths of millions. Soldiers spit on the former Fuhur as he walks
by. These men have seen the worst of the worst
and now they want revenge. As Nazi forces pushed into the Soviet Union
in June of 1941, they committed countless atrocities. The Soviets fought back but lost more men
than any other country during World War II. Soviet lands are soaked with blood, and its
soldiers hate Adolf Hitler with a fiery passion. The leader of the Nazis is marched to an open
square, where he is forced to his knees. The Soviet men sign the songs of their nation
as they look on at the scene unfolding before them. Joseph Stalin gave clear instructions to his
men that if they captured Hitler he was to be sent back to Moscow to be tried for his
crimes, but this is not what happens. Filled with rage, the soldiers can’t control
themselves. Adolf Hitler begs for mercy in the city square
as Soviet voices echo off the rubble and crumbling buildings that surround them. One of the soldiers who pulled Hitler out
of the bunker steps out of the masses and silently walks up to him. He looks Adolf Hitler in the eyes and says
something in broken German. “This is for my fallen comrades,” the
Soviet soldier says. He pulls his pistol from its side holster,
pulls the hammer back, and shoots Adolf Hitler in the head, instantly killing him. There is a roar of approval from the crowd. They will all be reprimanded by Stalin, but
the soldiers will stand together in what they did. The demon that was Adolf Hitler was too dangerous
to be kept alive, and he deserved what he got. Other members of the Red Army walk up to Hitler's
body and fire a round into it. By the end of the day, there is very little
left to recover and dispose of. There is a chance in this scenario that the
Soviet soldiers would have brought Hitler to their commanding officers, who might have
been able to show a little more restraint. In this case, Adolf Hitler is placed in restraints
and hidden onboard a transport bound for the Soviet Union. His location is kept a secret as the Soviets
don’t want Nazi forces trying to rescue their leader. Once in Moscow, Hitler is brought before Joseph
Stalin, who looks upon him with contempt. The German Fuhrer is thrown in a heavily guarded
jail cell to await trial for his war crimes. Now that he is safely secured in prison, footage
of his capture and incarceration is sent out to news companies across the world. Every paper is given images taken by Soviet
photographers, and every media outlet in the world now has video footage of the daring
capture and extraction of the Nazi barbarian. These films are broadcasted worldwide so everyone
on the planet can watch the capture of Adolf Hitler. Weeks later, Hitler is marched through Moscow
as the Soviet people shout insults and throw rotten food at him. He is led past Lenin’s tomb and into the
Kremlin, where he will stand trial. The war has now reached its end as Nazi Germany
crumbled without the leadership of their Fuhur. Once he was captured, other Nazi leaders began
to surrender as it was now clear the war had been lost. There are still groups of Nazi youth and soldiers
fighting in more remote areas but between the Allied forces pushing across Europe on
the western front and the Soviets controlling much of the eastern portion of the continent,
the war in Europe is all but over. Allied leaders meet during this time to decide
exactly what to do with Adolf Hitler. It is decided that he must stand trial, but
his fate has already been sealed. The trial lasts for months as witness after
witness is called to the stand to testify against the Nazi war criminal. He is held personally responsible for the
mass genocide of the Jewish people along with countless other crimes against humanity. At the conclusion of the trial, Hitler is
found guilty. He is placed in chains and led to Red Square,
where millions of people watch him walk up the gallows. Hitler ascends the steps to the noose that
slowly sways back and forth in the frigid Russian air. The rope is placed around his neck, Stalin
says a few words, and the trap door is released. Hitler struggles against the tightened rope,
but he doesn’t last very long. After a couple of minutes, his body stops
twitching, and the war criminal’s lifeless corpse sways from side to side as the Russian
people cheer so loudly that their voices can be heard from miles away. Before we explore our next scenario, which
is much more terrifying, we want to examine one other alternate scenario that might have
played out if Hitler was captured at the end of World War II. This is not for the faint of heart as it may
give you nightmares. Hitler is captured by the Soviets and stands
trial in Moscow. This, unfortunately, gives him a chance to
defend himself and a platform to spread his venomous hate of the Jewish people. As he explains why he did what he did, he
appeals to some of the Russian people. He uses the trial not to try and defend what
he did but to justify it. Many don’t give his words any credence. However, his rhetoric speaks to a small number
of Russian nationalists. In fact, even though Adolf Hitler is the reason
so many of their fellow countrymen died, they now need someone new to blame for the state
of their nation and to fight against. These extremists listen to Hitler's message
and become even more radicalized. They ban together with the Russian Liberation
Army and start a larger Nazi movement in the Soviet Union. Allied leaders were always afraid that giving
Hitler a platform to speak and defend himself was a mistake, but they never thought it could
go this far. Uprisings begin forming across the Soviet
Union. The country falls into chaos. In the turmoil that is unfolding, Adolf Hitler
is broken out of prison by extremists. He is smuggled out of the country and joins
other Nazi war criminals who have escaped Allied forces and now reside in South America. A new Nazi nation is secretly being built
on the continent. With their leader freed from capture, the
Nazis begin building a new army in the heart of South America. Hitler's time in captivity has only made him
crazier and more bloodthirsty. He writes a sequel to Mein Kampf about his
time in the Soviet prison. From it comes a new agenda. Adolf Hitler no longer wants to wage a racial
war just in Europe but across the entire world. He will crush every democratic and communist
country on the planet. No one will be spared except for his Nazi
brethren. Adolf Hitler calls on all of his old and new
allies to join him in South America. From there he launches a savage campaign into
North America, and World War III begins. This is an extreme scenario but one that might
have come out of the very real fear that many Allied leaders had about giving Hitler a chance
to defend himself at trial. Scenario 2: What if Hitler was captured by
allied forces in the middle of World War II? A small group of elite Allied soldiers hides
in the dense trees of a German forest. The sound of an engine can be heard in the
distance. The Allies received intel that Adolf Hitler
would be traveling this secluded road today with only a small entourage of guards. The team was airdropped in the previous night
and is now waiting to ambush the jeep holding the Fuhrer. The Nazi vehicle crests the hill. There are four men in it. Their target sits in the back. The Allied commander gives the signal, and
the soldiers get ready. As the jeep passes their position, they shoot
out the tires. The vehicle swerves out of control and slams
into a tree on the side of the road. The Allied soldiers spring out of the foliage
and open fire on the men in the front of the jeep. Their bullets shatter the windshield and rip
through the Nazis in the front seats of the vehicle. The general who sits next to Hitler raises
his machine gun and returns fire. The Allied soldiers dive for cover. From one of the treetops, a sniper peers through
his scope. He holds his breath and pulls the trigger. The head of the Nazi general explodes as the
bullet from his Springfield rifle passes through the German’s skull. Adolf Hitler scrambles for his pistol. He pulls the Walther P38 out of its holster. Before he can turn to aim it, a Thompson machine
gun is pressed into his skull. “Drop it, or you die,” the commander of
the Allied force hisses. Hitler lets go of the gun; it falls to the
floor of the Jeep with a clank. The Allied soldiers drag the Fuhrer from the
jeep and gag him. The special forces unit carefully makes its
way through enemy territory. They must move fast as it won’t be long
until the Nazis realize their leader has been kidnapped. The band of soldiers and their prisoner make
it to a Nazi airforce base. It is risky to try and steal a plane while
also hauling the most wanted man in the world along with them, but it is the only way out. The men wait for a shift change. When the time is right, they run to one of
the Heinkel He 111 furthest away from the watchtower. The squad piles into the aircraft as they
throw Hitler into the cargo hold. The commander uses the butt of his gun to
knock out the Fuhrer as two men scramble to the cockpit. They start the engines and move towards the
runway. In the confusion, the Nazis try to identify
who is taking the plane out for an unauthorized flight. It doesn’t even cross their minds that Allied
soldiers are the ones stealing the aircraft with Hitler aboard. The plane takes off, and the Nazis finally
realize something is terribly wrong. They open fire on the stolen Heinkel He 111,
but the Allies are already out of range. They fly across the North Sea and land in
Great Britain. Adolf Hitler is put in prison, and the British
inform the world that the monster who started World War II has now been captured. However, this does not necessarily lead to
a happy ending. Nazi Germany is still dominating the war in
Europe. And since their leader is now in an Ally prison,
someone else must take over the war effort. There are three men who could claim the Nazi
throne and continue fighting Hitler’s war. Unfortunately for the Allies, all three of
these Nazis may be more competent leaders than Hitler. As it turns out, capturing Hitler is one of
the worst things the Allies could have done in the middle of World War II. With the former Fuhur awaiting trial in Britain,
Heinrich Himmler takes over as the leader of Nazi Germany. Himmler already had control over the Schutzstaffel
and Gestapo, but now he controls every aspect of the Nazi military. He quickly begins to undo certain missteps
that Hitler had taken while he was Fuhur. Himmler consolidates the Nazi military and
reinforces the Eastern front. Hitler had planned to invade the Soviet Union,
but Himmler and many other military leaders see this as a mistake. Himmler uses his command over the SS and uses
them as a secondary military force. Although he is hell-bent on carrying out the
extermination of the Jewish People like other Nazi officials, he sees that forces are needed
elsewhere. By maintaining a strong defense along the
Eastern front and the English Channel, Himmler is able to keep the Allies to the north at
bay. He sends a large force south to aid Italy
in defeating enemy forces in North Africa. Where Hitler failed, Himmler succeeds and
secures large amounts of oil and resources for Germany. This allows the Nazis to continue to build
up their war machine with much fewer losses than if they had invaded the Soviet Union. Hitler's capture in the middle of World War
II was Germany’s best-case scenario. By focusing its forces on one front at a time,
the Nazis are able to secure victory in Europe and move on to the next phase of the war. If Himmler didn’t rise to power, then Joseph
Goebbels may have been able to weasel his way into controlling the Nazi Party. Hitler had met with Goebbels just before he
was captured and saw what the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda had in
store over the coming months. Goebbels' new campaign to recruit more soldiers
to the Nazi cause extends beyond Germany and into other countries in Europe. He seeks to unify people using scare tactics
and uniting them behind a common enemy: the Jews. Goebbels recruits like-minded individuals
from Spain, Portugal, and other European countries, including those who are part of the Allies
alliance. He uses radio broadcasts while simultaneously
dropping massive amounts of pro-Nazi pamphlets over major cities. His main goal is to keep morale high and a
fresh flow of recruits coming into the Nazi ranks. He hands over the military aspect of the war
to others who have more experience and can make better decisions. Through Goebbles’ mass propaganda campaign
and the tactics of military generals who are smarter than Hitler, Germany may have been
able to increase its numbers and territory while the Fuhrer rots in jail. Hermann Göring was Hitler’s closest ally
and friend when he rose to power in Germany. After Göring fell out of favor with the Fuhrer
over numerous bad military decisions, he started getting illusions of grandeur. He had been the Commander in Chief of the
Luftwaffe, but with the former Fuhur out of the picture, Göring is now ready to take
over all parts of the military and the Nazi Party as a whole. One of Göring’s main obsessions is the
“Final Solution.” Now that he is in charge of Germany, he ramps
up the efforts to wipe out the Jewish people across Europe. It is a worst-case scenario for the Jews as
the new leader of the Nazis is just as hell-bent on genocide as Adolf Hitler was. However, Göring gets distracted easily and
becomes more concerned with riches and prestige than actually winning the war. He continues to make bad military decisions
and does not listen to his advisors. Others in the Nazi party become frustrated
with Göring and how he is running the country. They assassinate him, and someone else fills
the power vacuum in Germany. None of these options would be good news for
the rest of the world if Hitler was captured. Each successor has his own quirks and may
have even allowed Germany to win the war. The capture of Adolf Hitler by the Allies
in the middle of World War II might have actually been a bad thing. Regardless of who took over for Hitler, the
fate of the former Fuhrer would have been the same. Adolf Hitler sits in his cell, staring at
the stone wall and thinking about where he went wrong. The smell of a burning cigar fills the air
as Hitler snaps out of his daydream. A gruff cough and clearing of the throat causes
Hitler to turn around. Standing on the other side of the bars is
Winston Churchill. He has a look of disgust on his face and fire
burning in his eyes. Churchill hates Adolf Hitler maybe more than
anyone else in the entire world. He has seen firsthand the destruction Germany
had done to Europe. The bombings of Britain still sit at the forefront
of his mind. He has brought with him a loaded pistol and
still hasn’t decided if he is going to use it or not. Churchill and the other Allied leaders decided
that this man should stand trial for his crimes, but deep down, Winston Churchill wants to
be the one to put a bullet in his chest. The two men stare at each other. Churchill hacks up phlegm and spits on the
floor in front of Hitler. “This will not be pleasant,” he says. “This will not be merciful. Your trial will be swift. Your fate is already determined. I’ll see you in hell.” Churchill turns and leaves Adolf Hitler alone
with his thoughts in the damp jail cell. Later that day, he is escorted to the national
courthouse. Adolf Hitler’s trial is a short one. He is convicted of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. He is sentenced to death. Days after he is found guilty, Adolf Hitler
is executed. Britain does not make a spectacle of it. His body is loaded on a Royal Navy vessel
and carried out into the Northern Atlantic. Sailors drop the weighted body into the frigid
water. Winston Churchill stands on the deck, smoke
streaming out of his cigar as he watches Hitler’s body sink into the abyss. Scenario 3: What if Hitler was captured by
allied forces at the beginning of World War II? The Nazi Party has risen to power. Adolf Hitler is now the Fuhur of Germany,
and he has plans to take over the world while committing mass genocide. Britain and France watch in disbelief as German
forces launch into Poland. They understand that there is no time to mess
around. This new leader of Germany must be stopped
at all costs. Britain and France will not stand for the
aggressive nature of the new German Fuhrer. They immediately send forces into Poland to
push the Nazis back. It is early 1939, and the German military
is growing but not yet strong enough to take on the combined might of France, Great Britain,
and the Nordic countries. The Allied forces push the Germans back. They warn Italy that if they get involved,
they will not hesitate to move forces into their county. The United States has been keeping a close
eye on the situation, and although they initially decided to take an isolationist policy, it
is determined that Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany pose too much of a threat to the stability
of the world to be left alone. The U.S. decides to aid the European Allied
forces in their endeavor to stop the mad dictator. With decisive action, Hitler doesn’t have
time to unify all of Germany behind him. Many of his tanks, aircraft, and naval vessels
are still in the middle of being built. The Allied forces secure the borders surrounding
Germany to make sure the Nazis can’t expand outward. They then move in on all sides towards Berlin. Once the Allies reach the city, they place
Adolf Hitler under arrest. There is a puppet government put in place
to oversee the restructuring of Germany. Any Nazi sympathizers are quickly rounded
up and tried for their unprovoked attack on Poland. As Allied intelligence digs deeper into the
infrastructure of the Nazi Party, they uncover a number of alarming discoveries. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were already starting
to round up Jewish families and send them to concentration camps in the region. The Allies can’t believe what the Nazis
had planned. They immediately begin trying Hitler and others
in the Nazi party for crimes against humanity and sentencing them one by one. Originally the plan had been to exile the
Nazi leadership to a remote island where they could hurt no one but themselves. This would have been similar to how Napolean
was dealt with, but after seeing the genocidal tendencies of the Nazi Party, Allied leaders
decide that Adolf Hitler cannot be left alive. He still has supporters across Germany and
in other parts of the world. If he ever escaped captivity, he could reclaim
his position as Fuhrer of Germany, and the world would descend into chaos. It is decided that the war crimes committed
during the initial invasion of Poland is enough to sentence Adolf Hitler to death. He is hung for almost throwing the entire
world into another war. His closest allies are also tried and hung,
while many other Nazis are placed in jail for the remainder of their lives. Capturing Hitler at the beginning of World
War II would have been a best-case scenario. In order to do so, Britain, France, and the
United States needed to step up and fight back early on. By cutting off the serpent's head at the beginning
of the conflict, Nazi Germany might have been kept under control and eventually dismantled
without a world war. After Hitler’s capture and execution, the
Nazi Party’s hold on Germany falls apart. Others try to take Hitler’s place, but it’s
too late. There has been a shift in power, and now outside
forces are influencing the restructuring of the German government. Pro-democracy candidates are put into office,
and Germany starts to look much more like France and Britain than its former dictatorship. This would have been the ideal outcome if
Adolf Hitler was captured during World War II. The earlier he was put behind bars and tried
for his crimes, the less damage he could do to Europe and the rest of the world. There may have been repercussions to his capture
if the rest of the Nazi party was not dealt with at the same time as the Fuhur, but if
Hitler had been stopped in 1939, millions of lives could have been saved. That being said, there is no telling what
would have happened if the Nazis had been stopped early on. Perhaps the Soviet Union would have amassed
a huge army and invaded Europe. Or maybe an even worse dictator would have
arisen in another country. The only thing we can be sure of is that if
Adolf Hitler had been captured, he would have been put on trial and most likely executed. Now watch “Last 24 Hours of Hitler's Life.” Or check out “Hitler's Plans for the World
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