There was a story alledgely from the Netherlands (I'm part Dutch, so I loved it when I heard it as a kid) in which the Dutch asked the Allies to deliver Adolph Hitler to them alive. They would then try him, convict him, tie him to a post in Amsterdam, packed with TNT with a fuse that went back to Rotterdam. The fuse would be lit and it would burn slowly past the thousands of surviving Dutch until just as Hitler watched in horror as the sputtering flames reached the point of no return, a Dutch citizen would come forward and step on it, putting it out. Then another fuse would be put in place and the ceremony repeated until all of the Dutch but one small child had come forward to put out the fuse. The child would watch take his father's hand hand and then walk away saying "I have learned my lesson, father, let us go."