Of course it was. After the Allies landed at Normandy and then broke out, General von Rundstedt very correctly said that the proper thing to do next was “End the damned war!” Germany’s situation was already hopeless. All that extending the war could do was kill more people, and most of those people would be Germans. More cities would be bombed: German cities. More and more destruction, devastation and death would be visited on Germany every single day. There was no way out, and at the end of it all, Germany was either going to surrender or be conquered and left a heap of ruins, with several million more dead people.
The Nazis chose to fight to the end, which merely meant all of those ruins, all of those dead people, and an even greater desire for revenge on the part of the Allies, particularly the Soviets.
