When Was Hitler's Assassination Justified

What's rarely touched upon in histories of WWII is how frightened the people in the Fuhrerbunker (Hitler's last hideout in the center of Berlin) were of what was going to happen to them. Discipline had broken down and most had realized that they were going to either be arrested and tortured or summarily executed by the Red Army when it finally took control city. Few of them still saw Hitler was as being the demigod that he was before and the thought had to be going through more than a few minds that a single bullet could have ended what had to be an agonizing wait for the end. If Hitler had not killed himself, it's probable that someone would have killed him in order to bring the entire mess to a conclusion.
If given a choice, Hitler probably would have wanted to be captured by the Americans, more so than the English, Free French or the Soviets. The Americans would have simply put him on trial without the spectacle. The British had made it clear that they considered the Nazi regime to be outlaws and that they had no issues with either summary executions for leadership caught on the battlefield or using a bill of attainder (a simple list of crimes justifying imprisonment or execution) to resolve the matter. The French hadn't made their choices clear, but summary execution doesn't seem to be too far from being unbelievable. The Soviets. …show more content…
The Soviets would have used him as the centerpiece of the greatest show trial in history and they would have made the spectacle last for many months. At the end, Hitler would have been found guilty and executed, but not before all of his crimes against the Soviet peoples had been clearly delineated and the entire world had been made aware that this was occurring. This would not have been a Nuremberg proceeding as there would have been absolutely no chance for an acquittal. This would have been a circus and Josef Stalin would have been the