Like, seeing how much of the Army he can keep functioning until they can surrender with "honor"?
Speaking of honor, I was listening to my World War II lectures while cutting up vegetables earlier, and the lecturer mentioned the suicide of Saito and Nagumo on Saipan. The "cult of suicide," as he said, is really making a comeback these days. It makes me think we're regressing as a society.
I think a lot of German generals have their eye over their shoulder on the “verdict of history,” and are busy whipping up some rationalizations. Once Hitler really is dead, he becomes are very convenient scapegoat. Not just for atrocities, but also military defeat.
Look at the article yesterday about Werner Henke (possibly a distant relative, by the way).
One thing historians are loathe to do is frame WWII as a religious war.