What would have happened if Hitler have been captured by the Soviets? (What if)?
06-04-2017, 04:45 PM
I know what if's don't exist but it's always fun to speculate.
What would have happened if Hitler had been captured by the Soviets?
These kind of question can make imagination go wild. As a forecaster, I would like to answer this as a What If Analysis:
Scenario 1 : If Hitler would have been captured by the Rogue soldiers of Zukhov’s force
Hitler brought war deep inside the Soviet Russia( Operation Barbarossa) decimating the Eastern Soviet cities and murdering 5 million of Soviet men in span of just “5 months, 1 week and 6 days”.
German advances during the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa, August 1941
If Hitler would have fallen in the hands of Zukhov’s angry soldiers , who were still fuming with the loss of their closed one just couple of years back, he would definitely had been put to a nasty death. It would have been a death equivalent to something of a sortie in Hell at the hands of Satan.
Scenario 2 :If Hitler would have been captured by the disciplined soldiers of Zukhov’s force
This would have been something that would have pleased Stalin like none other. This one achievement would have entitled Zukhov for an additional “ Hero of the Soviet Union” award ( He is the only one along with Brezhnev to get this award four times). There has been speculations that Stalin desperately wanted to capture Hitler and that’s why he organized a competition between his two marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II. This was termed as the Race to Berlin.
Capturing the German Fuhrer would be of huge symbolic and political importance for Stalin, so that:
a) He could have paraded him in front of his Soviet people as a war trophy and strengthened his position as a Demi God domestically
b) On world front, he would have got a bargaining chip at upcoming Postdam conference (Aug, 1945) : Stalin had already secured a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe during the Yalta conference (Feb 1945). The capture of Hitler by Soviets would have propelled the stature of Stalin much higher at Postdam conference compared to Churchill or Truman. He would have dictated whatever he wished for as he had an ACE up his sleeve.
Finally, he would have been tried in a special court supervised and administered by Soviets , Stalin pulling the strings. I am not sure if Stalin would have kept Hitler alive to get the sadistic pleasure or would have got him killed as a war criminal: That might be an alternate question that needs to be answered separately .
“What would have Stalin done with Hitler after his capture and trial”?
Raising a flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei
Scenario 3 :If Hitler would have been captured by the dis-grunted Germans before Zukhov’s forces could reach the FUHRER Bunker
Hitler came to power by giving false hopes to German about the economic growth and making Germany a adobe of tranquility. However, things turned out to be very different and Germans were slaughtered on all fronts and GERMANY was decimated by the Allied forces.
All this hardship on the Germans would have definitely ensured Germans would have killed Hitler if they would have caught him , something that happened to Fascist Mussolini in Italy:
“During the course of 29 April, Hitler learned of the death of his ally, Benito Mussolini, who had been executed by Italian partisans. Mussolini's body and that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, had been strung up by their heels. The bodies were later cut down and thrown in the gutter, where vengeful Italians reviled them. It is probable that these events strengthened Hitler's resolve not to allow himself or his wife to be made "a spectacle of", as he had earlier recorded in his Testament”
What you guys think?
What would have happened if Hitler had been captured by the Soviets?
These kind of question can make imagination go wild. As a forecaster, I would like to answer this as a What If Analysis:
Scenario 1 : If Hitler would have been captured by the Rogue soldiers of Zukhov’s force
Hitler brought war deep inside the Soviet Russia( Operation Barbarossa) decimating the Eastern Soviet cities and murdering 5 million of Soviet men in span of just “5 months, 1 week and 6 days”.
German advances during the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa, August 1941
If Hitler would have fallen in the hands of Zukhov’s angry soldiers , who were still fuming with the loss of their closed one just couple of years back, he would definitely had been put to a nasty death. It would have been a death equivalent to something of a sortie in Hell at the hands of Satan.
Scenario 2 :If Hitler would have been captured by the disciplined soldiers of Zukhov’s force
This would have been something that would have pleased Stalin like none other. This one achievement would have entitled Zukhov for an additional “ Hero of the Soviet Union” award ( He is the only one along with Brezhnev to get this award four times). There has been speculations that Stalin desperately wanted to capture Hitler and that’s why he organized a competition between his two marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II. This was termed as the Race to Berlin.
Capturing the German Fuhrer would be of huge symbolic and political importance for Stalin, so that:
a) He could have paraded him in front of his Soviet people as a war trophy and strengthened his position as a Demi God domestically
b) On world front, he would have got a bargaining chip at upcoming Postdam conference (Aug, 1945) : Stalin had already secured a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe during the Yalta conference (Feb 1945). The capture of Hitler by Soviets would have propelled the stature of Stalin much higher at Postdam conference compared to Churchill or Truman. He would have dictated whatever he wished for as he had an ACE up his sleeve.
Finally, he would have been tried in a special court supervised and administered by Soviets , Stalin pulling the strings. I am not sure if Stalin would have kept Hitler alive to get the sadistic pleasure or would have got him killed as a war criminal: That might be an alternate question that needs to be answered separately .
“What would have Stalin done with Hitler after his capture and trial”?
Raising a flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei
Scenario 3 :If Hitler would have been captured by the dis-grunted Germans before Zukhov’s forces could reach the FUHRER Bunker
Hitler came to power by giving false hopes to German about the economic growth and making Germany a adobe of tranquility. However, things turned out to be very different and Germans were slaughtered on all fronts and GERMANY was decimated by the Allied forces.
All this hardship on the Germans would have definitely ensured Germans would have killed Hitler if they would have caught him , something that happened to Fascist Mussolini in Italy:
“During the course of 29 April, Hitler learned of the death of his ally, Benito Mussolini, who had been executed by Italian partisans. Mussolini's body and that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, had been strung up by their heels. The bodies were later cut down and thrown in the gutter, where vengeful Italians reviled them. It is probable that these events strengthened Hitler's resolve not to allow himself or his wife to be made "a spectacle of", as he had earlier recorded in his Testament”
What you guys think?
