I believe its because they would rather die than be captured by the allies so they began killing themselves.
It would be a because i had the same question
During the 1800 election, the Democratic-Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values and also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic
They became rivals because each one wanted more power than the other for example in world war 2 the USA made the atomic bomb which showed the world that the Americans were the most powerful country but after ww2 Russia and USA started a Cold War which lead to the feud between there political views and the start of better technology and the space race