spin-1/2-nuclei
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I don't really want to debate his entire life either.
I see his suicide as more of a slap in the face to his enemies. To allow oneself to be made an example of, by those who you despise, is not honourable in the slightest. What honor and bravery is there in submission? None.
They made an example of Mussolini; one that opposed his ideals. Hitler would have been paraded about like a prize and then executed in the name of something he did not believe in.
A coward would have begged for mercy.
A dying slap in the face is a slap in the face. The troops were trained to kill others, not themselves and that is what they did, and that is why they died. They died in the name of a cause they believed in. Each soldier had the capacity to commit suicide with his gun, yet they chose to point it at the enemy instead, because they believed in something.
Sure, Hitler could have ran out onto the battlefield with a pea-shooter and a flag, but if he had died on the field, morale would have died with him; along with each mans reason to fight. He did not surrender in the slightest and neither did his men.
I also find it strange that you believe suicide is comfortable.
Yes, he killed himself because he didn't get his way... Heh.
As if they would have let him live... A laughable thought. Secondly, he did go down fighting with his men as they died believing in something he helped create. He gave them purpose. They all died in Berlin, my friend.
Obviously the paragraph I wrote before really did need to be written... Either way I never said they would have let him live after his trial. That really wasn't the point. The point was if you're going to die anyway it matters how you choose to die and in my opinion Hitler chose to die how he lived - like a coward.