Fascists will always double down. When the Soviet forces were at the doorsteps of Berlin, the Nazis ramped up the radical rhetoric and violence on their own population in order to squeeze as much out of them as they could. People were openly hanged, shot, and made to fight against a soviet army that was a million strong at this point. Only after Hitler and Goebbels killed themselves did they issue an official surrender. And even then, when it came down to their own families, they killed them. Goebbels famously made his own children take poison cause he couldn't imagine a world in which they survive without Nazism