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British PM Churchill Urged Hitler Execution

According to British media sources describing recently declassified documents from the Second World War, Britain`s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill favored summarily executing Adolf Hitler in an electric chair if captured by the Allies rather than holding "farce" trials for the "Fuhrer" and other top Nazi officials. "Contemplate that if Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death," Churchill said, referring to Hitler as "the mainspring of evil."

Notes taken during British cabinet meetings from 1942 to 1945 also show that Prime Minister Churchill argued against releasing Indian spiritual leader Mohandas Gandhi from prison on compassionate grounds. Other government ministers argued that Gandhi, jailed in 1942 for speaking out against India`s involvement in military action against Nazi Germany, should be released to keep him from dying during a jailhouse hunger strike.

The newly-released documents also show a particularly hard-line side of Churchill as a wartime leader in addition to his views about Hitler`s fate, such as his suggestion that Britain should retaliate for Nazi attacks in Czechoslovakia by destroying three German villages for every Czech village assaulted by the Nazis.