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Not an official answer so I'm just putting it as a comment, but I wonder if he ever really WOULD have been captured, even if they'd taken the bunker with him still alive. Every Allied and Soviet soldier had a cause to personally hate Hitler, and guns have a tendency of going off at just the wrong time, you know? –  Nerrolken Oct 7 '14 at 18:37
I see your point, but they managed not to kill the rest of the Nazi leaders. Mussolini got lynched, but he was captured by partisans, not regular troops. –  Ne Mo May 10 at 21:51

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Some 22 surviving high-ranking Nazis were tried at Nuremburg after the end of the war, per agreement between the Allied powers.

The highest ranking of them, Hermann Goering was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (although he committed suicide before his execution). The same would certainly have been true of Hitler had he lived to stand trial.

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This reminds of an American army "training" film I was shown in high school (!), which was an anti-axis propaganda piece. At the end of the film they showed three portraits, that of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito, while the narrator intoned, "If you see any of these men, doooooooon't hesitate!"

I think you can safely assume that if Hitler had been captured by the allies he would have been tried at Nuremburg and hung. A similar fate would have occurred if the Red Army had captured him.

The actual plan for Nuremberg was made by Army lawyer Murray C. Bernays at the direction of Henry Stimson, Secretary of Defense. After the Quebec Tri-Powers Conference in 1944, Roosevelt ordered Stimson to make a plan for the treatment of captured Nazi leaders and organizations. Stimson gave the job to Bernays who wrote a 6-page memo.

Murray C. Bernays, architect of the Nuremberg trials

Murray C. Bernays, architect of the Nuremberg trials

The memorandum was originally classified SECRET but has since been de-classified and is archived at the Truman libary. Page images of the memorandum are available online.

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Safely assuming assumes no formal plans, so your answer to the question asked is that the Allied High Command had no written guidance on what to do with Hitler? –  CGCampbell Oct 8 '14 at 17:08
@CGCampbell There was written guidance. I have updated my answer to describe it. –  Tyler Durden Oct 8 '14 at 17:42

hitler would have gone two ways if the Russians got a hold of him-slow torture trial then death if the western allies got him trial at nurmeburg most likely death by hanging

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