why "hitler" suicided ?
As Quentin Hardy notes, Hitler was horrified by what happened to Mussolini (although I'm not sure he actually saw photographs of it). But his determination not to be captured preceded Mussolini's death. Hitler had long entertained the semi-exotic fantasy that he'd be brought to Moscow and indeed to Red Square in a cage, that he'd be paraded before assembled Soviet leaders like Stalin and masses of detestable Bolsheviks, throngs of hated Slavs in the streets. He even worried he'd be eternally embalmed and kept in state for mockery. This picture shows place where Mussolini was killed.Mussolini's death, according to Joachim Fest, "reawakened" his fears [1]:
This claim is corroborated by the Hitler's adjutants, Heinz Linge and Otto Günsche, whose recollections formed the basis of The Hitler Book. Hitler's wild fixation on Stalin and the USSR was a significant factor in his decision; his fertile imagination supplied him with visions of torture, humiliation, and public disgrace [2].
1. Inside Hitler's Bunker.
2. wikipedia.orgThe Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stali,
(Quentin Hardy:
Deputy Tech Editor, NY Times. Visiting Lecturer, UC Berkeley iSchool.
I am Deputy Technology Editor at The New York Times. I also lecture at U.C. Berkeley's iSchool. Previously Executive Editor of Forbes, and demi-pundit on Fox. Four years WSJ San Francisco. I spent +/- 13 years in Asia, including stints as a Singapore-based international bookseller, and the banks and markets correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal.)
(Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) rose to power in the wake of World War I as a leading proponent of Facism. Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. Mussolini’s military expenditures in Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Albania made Italy predominant in the Mediterranean region, though they exhausted his armed forces by the late 1930s. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was killed shortly after the German surrender in Italy in 1945.)