And not exactly defeated. He offed himself.
“He offed himself”,
Uhh, yeah, I know. Him offing himself probably worked better than the overall plan to “bring him to justice” would have.
It was enough his underlings got brought to justice,(my Italian teacher at U. of Chicago was also a criminal prosecutor at Nuremberg); it was quite enough that Adolf brought HIMSELF to justice, because that’s EXACTLY what he did. Admitted defeat. Admitted cosmic hubris, apocalyptic folly, and the tragically mistaken premises he and his county accepted that enabled them to wreak incalculable damage on civilization, and all with a clean conscience.