I feel he thinks he is on some kind of special mission, that is, to achieve spiritual domination of his battalion, thereby symbolising the purity of the great German Wehrmacht itself, even when going down in defeat. If they're the last of us, Stransky and Steiner, then God help us!
(Regarding Captain Stransky)
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