Thing is, in to my way of thinking once the war was over it didnt matter if he was alive or not. He was the symbol- the figurehead. He was able to drive the German soldier to amazing feats- but in a post (blatant) Nazi Germany, what good is he? He can't give speaches, and their were many better planners and organizers in the Nazi ranks. To my mind, once the war was over, the money man (Bormann) and the intel guys (Mueller, Gehlen) and the tech guys (Kammler, Von Braun, etc.) were much more critical.