My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.
Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!
Duce, the Führer has sent me to set you free!
Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
I would never have surrendered, because of my pledge as a German officer. But when Hitler died, that pledge ended. By killing himself, Hitler saved thousands of lives. They relieved us of our oaths as soldiers.