The Curious Corner

 Did Nazi leaders go to other country leaders for help after Hitler died, or is that a myth?

It is the good question. There has been a notion that Nazi leaders attempted to seek refuge in other nations but this was not the case

By the end of the war, most of the higher Nazi leaders were either killed at the end of the war or captured. They were sure the war was lost and they were to be punished. Rather, Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels did not want to be taken prisoner in the days to come.

Others, such as Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess were taken prisoners and had to face Nuremberg Tribunals. And these trials were not aimed at depositing safety upon their persons, but at demonstrating the world their crimes and administering justice.

There were some mid-level Nazis who were able to escape, though, not publicly and without the aid of the governments. They employed sabotage and escape routes and chains of sympathisers. Adolf Eichmann, one of the key organizers of the Holocaust, lived in Argentina, and was finally located there even though he was there many years.

After all was said and done, the leading figures in Nazism did not seek assistance of other nations. They were either killed in the fall of the regime, apprehended and prosecuted or lived the rest of their years in hiding.