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The objective of the UK and US was actually to capture Hitler, not kill him. Had they gotten to Berlin first, Hitler would have been captured, tried, and still likely executed. The Soviet Union, being led by Stalin, became headhunters. The Soviet Union had sustained over 20 million casualties from the war, and they were vengeful. All in all, the reason was because Hitler had started the war, and committed wartime atrocities such as the Holocaust. A group of German Army officers attempted to assassinate Hitler by planting a bomb in his wartime headquarters. The bomb exploded during a military conference but Hitler survived the blast and the conspirators were rounded up and executed -- or, in the case of Rommel (a national hero) offered a chance to commit suicide. Rommel took his own life to spare his family becoming the victims of Nazi reprisals.

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