I think most of them realized after all the hell they caused the world, it was easier to consume the cyanide capsule provided rather than attempt to shoot it out with the Allies. Hence, Himmler, Goering, Hitler, Goebbels, all committed suicide rather than be taken or executed. I was watching a program on Nazi technological advances, and the commentator called it “exotic Nazi technology”, weird, like it was some kind of fashion or something. I think deadly is a better description,as was most of, if not all, their advancements were designed for.
I think some of them took the lesson of Gen. Stupnagel
to heart and chose poison.
When he was on his way to Gestapo custody he took a
pistol and tried to blow his brains out, unfortunately
for him he just managed to blind himself and was later
hung with piano wire. Not a good end at all.