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If we lived back around WWII, and we captured Hitler, do you think he should be killed?

Seriously, here's what you do.

Keep him alive. Take him, town to town, and let everyone kick or punch him. No weapons, just a good kick to the groin or something. My size 16 steel toed boots would work. Every non-axis supporting town in the world gets a kick. Then build him a 5'x5' steel box, put him in it, and set it in the middle of death valley.

Seriously.

 
Heh. but he was <onzy following zie orders> oh I forgot he made the orders. Personally I don't beleive in the death penalty so no. But a lifetime of expirmental chemical testing on him would surfice.
 
There are some people who simply do not deserve to live in society (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Bin Laden), so they should be/should have been executed.
 
It seems like a rhetorical question since all the other nazi criminals were put on trial and punished with the death penalty (at least the worst ones).

=> he would surely have faced the death penalty ...
 
If Hitler were captured today I honestly believe you would have a bunch of folks
like czar and EngineNr9 who would be screaming for compassion.
After all, who are WE to say what he did was wrong?
rolleye.gif
 


<< I voted No because death is too easy a way out for him >>



Come to think of it, remember the movie "Little Nicky"?
 


<< If Hitler were captured today I honestly believe you would have a bunch of folks
like czar and EngineNr9 who would be screaming for compassion.
After all, who are WE to say what he did was wrong?
rolleye.gif
>>

 
I am totally against the death penalty and any type of torture on anyone. I would say life in prison would suffice.
 


<< It seems like a rhetorical question since all the other nazi criminals were put on trial and punished with the death penalty (at least the worst ones).

=> he would surely have faced the death penalty ... >>




Very true.
 


<< If Hitler were captured today I honestly believe you would have a bunch of folks
like czar and EngineNr9 who would be screaming for compassion.
After all, who are WE to say what he did was wrong?
rolleye.gif
>>


 
Let's turn this around.

If the Allies lost to the Axis, Don't you think Churchill and Roosevelt would have been tried and executed for war crimes?
 


<< Personally I don't beleive in the death penalty so no. But a lifetime of expirmental chemical testing on him would surfice. >>

So you believe in cruel and unusual punishment, but not the death penalty?
rolleye.gif
 


<< If Hitler were captured today I honestly believe you would have a bunch of folks
like czar and EngineNr9 who would be screaming for compassion.
After all, who are WE to say what he did was wrong?
rolleye.gif
>>



Yeah, that's true. :disgust:



<< Let's turn this around.

If the Allies lost to the Axis, Don't you think Churchill and Roosevelt would have been tried and executed for war crimes? >>



Ummm, let's not turn it around. Churchill and Roosevelt were not the aggressors in World War II, nor were they the ones who committed genocide. Maybe some kind of mock trial would be arranged (assuming Hitler could have actually taken the United States, which is complete fantasy), but it wouldn't have been legitimate whereas the Nazis, et al being put on trial was completely justified.


 


<< Ummm, let's not turn it around. Churchill and Roosevelt were not the aggressors in World War II, nor were they the ones who committed genocide. Maybe some kind of mock trial would be arranged (assuming Hitler could have actually taken the United States, which is complete fantasy), but it wouldn't have been legitimate whereas the Nazis, et al being put on trial was completely justified. >>



Why not? . . . History would have been written very differently if the Allies lost. If Japan had the foresight to INVADE Pearl Harbor, we may well have lost the War.

This topic is a bit moot, anyway. The surviving Nazi high-command WAS tried for war crimes and many were executed (remember the Nuremburg Trials).

Hitler probably would have suffered the same fate as Italy's leader - killed by his own former followers - if he had not (probably) committed suicide. If - somehow he had survived - he would have had the same fate as the other War criminals - Execution.

 


<< Why not? . . . History would have been written very differently if the Allies lost. If Japan had the foresight to INVADE Pearl Harbor, we may well have lost the War. >>



They could have sunk the entire Island into the ocean and would never have defeated the US.
 


<< lets say he didn't kill himself, and was captured by allied troops. now he's on trial... death penalty? >>

Seeing as how the Russians got to Berlin first, you'd have to ask whether or not they' would've killed him on sight or harangued in court before they let him hang.
 


<< Hitler probably would have suffered the same fate as Italy's leader - killed by his own former followers - if he had not (probably) committed suicide. >>



I believe they (his followers) tried it 2 or 3 times without success.
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