Question: winston churchill commits suicide

After watching Churchills bodyguard there was a part that stuck with me afterwards.
this part is where churchill finds out that hitler had committed suicide and rather then say "yes we got the beast" like he had with Mussilini he simply went silent and said he would have done the same hitler if he had been in the same situation.

so my question is would he actully commit suicide if britain had been invaded like germany and why was his reation different for hitler consider hitler had done much horrible acts then mussilini ever could have.
 
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If the British were surely destroyed as an entity, I could see it. But I think he'd try to flee to one of the dominions or realms of the Empire to continue the good fight if at all possible.
 
Yes and no.

he always said that he would go down fighting on the barricades, a heroic death is far more of a symbol. I cant see him just taking poison, he was the type who would have wanted his death to hurt the enemy as much as possible.
 
IIRC Churchill suffered quite greatly from depression, and described it as his Black Dog, however, I don't think his character was the type for suicide in the same way as Hitler, I think as suggested, he's have gone and tried to fight to get himself killed that way if he was going to try suicide.

In practice I think he would have headed to Canada with the Royal Family and set up a British government in exile which would have been largely impotent and with ever decreasing support from Washington.
 
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King Thomas

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If he did kill himself it would be leading a charge in defence of the Houses of Parliment, in battle,shot by the enimy.
 
This board lives, positively thrives, for nothing else than to denounce Sea Lion. So there is no way that our TL's PM Churchill would ever have to face a successful German invasion of Britain. (The TV show you mention has a number of anecdotes about Churchill telling his bodyguard that should they ever come under personal attack while travelling outside the UK during the war, and were unable to escape, then Winston wanted either himself or Inspector Thompson to put a bullet into his brain, preferably after having first killed as many would-be kidnappers as possible.)

I once got into trouble here with a highstrung British ultra-loyalist when I suggested that should Halifax have become PM in May, 1940, on a policy of suing for peace, then he might have wanted to either arrest or even shoot Churchill (okay, something like house arrest for Winston is far, far more likely than murder in such a scenario).

Maybe Churchill succumbs to his black dog if he is removed from office by a Halifax government intent on seeking peace with Hitler?
 
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