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Title: Churchill wanted Hitler killed in electric chair
Source: MSNBC (Reuters)
URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10671525/?displaymode=1006
Published: Jan 1, 2006
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2006-01-01 11:14:50 by robin
Keywords: Churchill, electric, wanted
Views: 261
Comments: 24

LONDON - British wartime leader Winston Churchill wanted Adolf Hitler to be summarily executed like a common gangster in a U.S.-supplied electric chair, according to previously secret documents released on Sunday.

Churchill also believed that putting Hitler and other Nazi German leaders on trial after World War Two would be a farce and they should instead be treated as outlaws and promptly executed.

The fresh glimpse into history was revealed in newly declassified records from British war cabinet meetings.

The notes, officially released by the National Archives after a gap of 60 years, were taken by cabinet secretary Norman Brook.

In cabinet discussions on what they might do with Hitler if he was captured, Churchill said in December 1942: “If Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death.”

“This man is the mainspring of evil,” he added.

The British leader even suggested the Nazi dictator could be executed in an electric chair from the United States -- just like a gangster meeting his end.

“Execute the principal criminals as common outlaws,” Churchill also said, voicing his objections to a war crime tribunal which he believed would be a farcical mock trial. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. R


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#1. To: historian1944, Zipporah, aristeides, Eoghan (#0)

thinking of Yoo ping!

robin  posted on  2006-01-01   11:15:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: robin (#1)

Yes, I think the possibility of openning up the 3rd Reich's financial records would have been too much for Sir Winsty to bear.

The British leader even suggested the Nazi dictator could be executed in an electric chair from the United States -- just like a gangster meeting his end.

Perhaps a symbolic chair out of the NYC banking district?

The Other War: FDR's Battle Against Churchill and the British Empire

The historical evidence shows that Roosevelt entered into the military alliance with Britain with only one purpose in mind: the defeat of an enemy. The historical evidence also shows that Franklin Roosevelt was committed to dismantling the British Empire--and all other empires--and to replacing them with sovereign nation-states, modelled on the American constitutional republic, in which each citizen would be given, through access to modern scientific education and Western culture, the opportunity to create a better life for himself and his posterity.

It is this view of man, in the tradition of Western Judeo-Christian civilization, that places a value in each sovereign human individual, that the oligarch Churchill bitterly opposed, and that President Franklin D. Roosevelt espoused.

In 1946, as the history of the period was already being rewritten, FDR's son, Elliot, published a short book, titled As He Saw It. With pungency and force, using first-hand acccounts, Elliot told the truth about his father's bitter fights with Churchill, leading the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to state in a contemporary review that the book's central thesis was that Roosevelt saw Great Britain and its imperial system as a far greater adversary to the United States than Russia.

Some historians have charged the younger Roosevelt with inaccuracies in reporting. However, Elliot's reports have been subsequently supported by reams of declassified documents, as well as first-hand accounts from the day. What emerges is the story of a pitched battle between two powerful actors on the stage of history--often fought in the open--over two diametrically opposed visions for the postwar world.

Eoghan  posted on  2006-01-01   11:34:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Eoghan (#2)

...Roosevelt saw Great Britain and its imperial system as a far greater adversary to the United States than Russia.

In reality, neither country was any sort of threat to us.

Lod  posted on  2006-01-01   12:22:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: lodwick (#4)

Very true...Gen. Patton perhaps discovered the Shell Game...too late.

Patton's Warning

The unmistakable hatred which had been directed at him during this press conference finally opened Patton's eyes fully as to what was afoot. In his diary that night lie wrote: "There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs. They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law . . . Another point which the press harped on was the fact that we were doing too much for the Germans to the detriment of the DP's, most of whom are Jews. I could not give the answer to that one, because the answer is that, in my opinion and that of most nonpolitical officers, it is vitally necessary for us to build Germany up now as a buffer state against Russia. In fact, I am afraid we have waited too long."

And in a letter of the same date to his wife: "I will probably be in the headlines before you get this, as the press is trying to quote me as being more interested in restoring order in Germany than in catching Nazis. I can't tell them the truth that unless we restore Germany we will insure that communism takes America."

Eoghan  posted on  2006-01-01   12:39:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Eoghan, EJ (#7)

His duties as military governor took Patton to all parts of Germany and intimately acquainted him with the German people and their condition. He could not help but compare them with the French, the Italians, the Belgians, and even the British. This comparison gradually forced him to the conclusion that World War II had been fought against the wrong people.

I'm learning way too much today.

Thanks for the link.

Lod  posted on  2006-01-01   12:56:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: lodwick (#9)

I'm learning way too much today.

That's a dangerous thing ! :P

Eoghan  posted on  2006-01-01   13:02:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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