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Originally Posted by Mutt
everything he did was consistent with a coward about to kill himself.
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Coward?
It was not coward.
If it were not for this epic ending, Hitler would not be such a legend... Call it a bad legend, a bad person, whatever you want. But this is exactly what causes discomfort and annoys nationalists from the other countries that fought: they could not get him.
I am not defending what he did with the people. I am only saying that suicide is not a coward act nor the worst thing to do, and dying this way sometimes make history more epic.
And the human culture is full of this kind of endings, from Socrates to Tristan and Isolde (alias Romeo and Juliet).
It is hard to forget someone that actually had the courage to do it. Or would you say that the japanese kamikaze were cowards? They were convinced that they were doing the best they could to defend what they loved...
Were they wrong? Maybe, but that does not makes them cowards, only incorrect.