There were also people on the German side who performed heroically in the closing days. Don't remember his name but there was one general on the Eastern front who led hundreds of thousands of him men AND civilians in a retreat disguised as a repositioning to the western front so they could surrender to the Americans. Hitler was livid when informed about it because he preferred the discipline of Communism over the decadence of the west-- the reason his final offensive was in the Ardennes.
Yes, indeed. When everything descends into chaos, some go insane, while others become even more fortright in trying to save lives; their own and others’.
Unfortunately, I don’t know the general’s name whom you’ve been mentioning.
And yes, I’ve heard that was one of the reasons for Hitler, who by the time must have been completely insane (strangely, I never have heard of a book about Hitler’s mental aberrrance and the role which his drugs might have had in it. I think this is owed to the fact that no thorough autopsy had been, or could have been performed on the charred corpse).
Another was that transport in the West was easier, and that H.s greatest victory had been won there, in 1940 in the Western campaign.