i just need to do some research for the holocaust...
please try to help me out...i would really appreciate it...
thanks
2006-10-30 13:20:43 · 12 answers · asked by ahedrington_simple_101 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
He didn't want to be captured alive by the Soviets and paraded around as a prisoner, and probably tortured before they killed him. He also could not stand to have his actions judged, or deal with the realization that he had failed to accomplish his master plan.
2006-10-30 13:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by Scott T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was his final defiance. If he was dead, he could not be put through a trial for war crimes by people that he thought were inferior. He managed to escape having to answer to any authority for his actions by doing so. Essentially he was responsible for millions of deaths and left the survivors without any sense of completion, no closure, no justice. Cowardly or not...he went unpunished for his crimes....leaving a big empty feeling...
2006-10-30 21:33:14 · answer #2 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, he obviously committed suicide when his headquater in Berlin was taken by the Allies. So, apart from him being absolutely wacko, sick, crazy, mentally disturbed ... I guess it was just realizing he lost the war and he wouldn't probably get out of there without losing his pride (among other things).
2006-10-30 21:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kerstin D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler after all was a man.
All men have to die one day - yes or no?
The historic view is that he proved to be coward enough to commit suicide rather than face defeat.
2006-10-31 06:54:25 · answer #4 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reasons....He commited suicide while hiding in a bunker in Berlin
while the invading Soviets were only 6 blocks away. He lost,
and he knew it.
2006-10-30 22:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by rpf5 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He became a coward when the tables were turned, just like Saddham Hussein when he was found in his fox hole.
2006-10-30 21:25:01 · answer #6 · answered by jammer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
realization. he finally realized that all he had done was extremely wrong. and he couldnt take it anymore after his realization and decided to take his own life. just like Oedipus, who ended up gouging his eyes out. Ironically, he was already "blind" before he gouged his eyes out.
2006-11-01 03:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by tangerine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bullet got through his head therefore paralyzing his brain functions and causing his dead.
2006-10-30 21:31:32 · answer #8 · answered by george 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was afraid to be captured by the Russians ...he was afraid he would be tortured..
2006-10-30 21:30:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't want to accept his defeat, so he put a gun to his own head.
2006-10-31 03:22:46 · answer #10 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋