KOENIGSBERG: Of course, the Nazis would lose the Second World War--because the essence of Hitler's ideology was dying for one's country; obedience unto death.
 Hitler Youth officer Ernst Nielsen wrote to his mother in 1940 and told her that if he died in battle, she had to bear it because the meaning of being German was "the privilege of offering a sacrifice."

From: Baird, J. W. (1992). To Die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Heinrich Himmler asserted that sacrifice for the German people was not to be feared. “Death holds no sting for us, Himmler said, because "individuals die, while the Volk lives on.”  Because the men of the Germanic SS were more concerned about the future of the Volk than about their individual destinies, members would “willingly and bravely seek death, wherever that is necessary.” Life was embraced in death. 

In his last letter to his mother, written before his death on the Western Front in 1940, Hitler Youth officer Ernst Nielsen prepared her for the loss of her son. When the news arrived, he warned, she was not to grieve; rather, she was to affirm the nobility of the cause:

If I die, mother, you must bear it,
and your pride will conquer your pain,
because you have the privilege of offering a sacrifice
that is what we mean, when we say Germany."