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In my opinion, yes. It was destiny… He had to be on stage as the curtain dropped. He could not abandon the German people to their fate in order to run to South America and do… What? Get a bunch of South American Native/Spanish/Portugese mixed mutts to continue the fight?

Thr Führer said many many times (especially in military conference transcripts which you can read in the book Hitler & His Generals: Military Conferences 42-45) that a soldier, regardless of rank, when in the situation he was in, must fight to the last man or bullet and then "fall on his sword'. This was one of the reasons he was so absolutely aghast and livid at the traitor Paulus surrendering the 6th Army at Stalingrad instead of shooting himself. He regarded suicide as a simple and obvious thing to do in this circumstance - one single second and then you are forever released from misery and disgrace.