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* DangerousDeserter: {{Averted|Trope}}; The gangsters desert from the Canadian Air Force to carry out a mission that could win the war they were sent into in the first place.
* DistinguishingMark: Our heroes prove they killed the real Hitler, as opposed to a body double, by shaving his mustache to show a scar on his upper lip.

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* CelebrityCasualty: [[spoiler:Hitler meets an ironic end when he gets gunned down by an SS officer who doesn't recognize him without his mustache.]]
* DangerousDeserter: {{Averted|Trope}}; The the gangsters desert from the Canadian Air Force to carry out a mission that could win the war they were sent into in the first place.
* DistinguishingMark: Our heroes intend to prove they killed the real Hitler, as opposed to a body double, by shaving his mustache to show a scar on his upper lip.
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'''''Hitler, Dead or Alive''''' is a 1942 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war movie]].

A businessman has offered a $1 million bounty on the head of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. A group of gangsters have decided to accept. They join the Canadian Air Force, only to desert the second they get to Germany. Thus begins their quest to kill Hitler...
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'''''Hitler, ''Hitler, Dead or Alive''''' Alive'' is a 1942 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war movie]].

A businessman has offered a $1 million bounty on the head of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. A group of gangsters have decided to accept. They join the Canadian Air Force, only to desert the second they get to Germany. Thus begins their quest to kill Hitler...\n-----
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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Though his mission to kill Hitler is successful, Steve Maschick is shot at a firing squad by the Nazis.]]

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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Though his mission to kill Hitler is successful, Steve Maschick is shot at a via firing squad by the Nazis.]]
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* RageWithinTheMachine: Countess Else von Brandt is the wife of a Gestapo officer who smuggles prisoners out if her husband's camp.

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* RageWithinTheMachine: Countess Else von Brandt is the wife of a Gestapo officer who smuggles prisoners out if of her husband's camp.
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* TheAtoner: Meyer is an agent of LaResistance motivated by a desire to atome for saving Hitler's life decades ago as a young doctor.

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* TheAtoner: Meyer is an agent of LaResistance motivated by a desire to atome atone for saving Hitler's life decades ago as a young doctor.



* DistinguishingMark: Our heroes prove they killed the real Hitler, as opposed to a body double, by shaving his moustache to show a scar on his upper lip.

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* DistinguishingMark: Our heroes prove they killed the real Hitler, as opposed to a body double, by shaving his moustache mustache to show a scar on his upper lip.
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-->''"Will Hitler escape this time?"''

'''''Hitler, Dead or Alive''''' is a 1942 [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war movie]].

A businessman has offered a $1 million bounty on the head of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. A group of gangsters have decided to accept. They join the Canadian Air Force, only to desert the second they get to Germany. Thus begins their quest to kill Hitler...
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!!This film contains examples of:

* TheAlcatraz: Our heroes just got out of Alcatraz for mob activities the day our story begins.
* AlternateHistory: [[spoiler: The film turns out to be the point of divergence for this, since Hitler is successfully assassinated.]]
* TheAtoner: Meyer is an agent of LaResistance motivated by a desire to atome for saving Hitler's life decades ago as a young doctor.
* BavarianFireDrill: Steve bullshits his way into a German cop thinking he's a Nazi spy to get an easier ride to Berlin.
* BigBad: The main target of the film's assassination plot is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself.
* DangerousDeserter: {{Averted|Trope}}; The gangsters desert from the Canadian Air Force to carry out a mission that could win the war they were sent into in the first place.
* DistinguishingMark: Our heroes prove they killed the real Hitler, as opposed to a body double, by shaving his moustache to show a scar on his upper lip.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Though his mission to kill Hitler is successful, Steve Maschick is shot at a firing squad by the Nazis.]]
* MeetTheNewBoss: [[spoiler:Hitler's successor is so similar to him that most laypeople don't even know Hitler died.]]
* PriceOnTheirHead: Our heroes are out to collect a million dollar bounty on Adolf Hitler.
* RageWithinTheMachine: Countess Else von Brandt is the wife of a Gestapo officer who smuggles prisoners out if her husband's camp.
* {{Revenge}}: The reason the bounty is in place is that a millionaire wanted revenge on his brother's death at the hands of the Gestapo.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The Nazis kill a bunch of kids via firing squad near the end of the film.]]
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