i for one am glad that hitler had to take his own life hiding in a bunker somewhere. if a coup or assassination of hitler had been successful, then nazi apologists would today be claiming that hitler was just about to turn the fortunes of the war when he had been treacherously struck down at the pivotal moment. i mean hitler used that same kind of crappy reasoning about germany being stabbed in the back in WWI, as if germany already hadn't lost the war in the west and defeat was inevitable on that front.