[maxxxxx]

"And even if Hitler was removed, there was the remaining SS to contend with. "

They all went home immediately after Hitler's death. By 1944 almost nobody wanted to fight anymore.

[digi_owl]

After Hilter's suicide.

After the bombing, they rounded up some 5000 people, and executed most of them. And others were forced to take their own like, like Rommel.

[maxxxxx]

Because Hitler was still alive. If he had actually been dead I believe his successors would have tried to find a way to stopping the war.