I just find it amusing that so many academics on the left, including Hannah Arendt, are willing to make excuses for Heidegger - who openly allied himself with the Nazis, gave public speeches in support of the regime and never apologized for advocating it - while they damn Schmitt for not having the courage to speak up. To this day, Heideggerian philosophers like Derrida and Deleuze dominate the academy.
The main reason: Schmitt never stopped vocally opposing Communism and, both before and after the war, advocated parties like the Catholic Center and the Christian Democrats who were more classically conservative in the American sense of the word.
Oh, no: if one is not a hero, that does not make him immoral either. If your interpretation is correct, I would not even call him a coward: to sacrifice oneself is one thing, and endanger one's family is another.
Thanks for the clarification, but I think I understood you as you had intended.