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Salomon pierced his hand and grabbed Kolya's neck and smeared blood on his face so he wouldn't look bloodless. The last time he grabbed someone like this was still forcing them to pay back the money. A counterfeiter said how sublime and somewhat hypocritical he was. Salomon would be afraid when he heard the sound of gunfire. Perhaps without Burger's staunch anti-fascist beliefs, Salomon would have been a pure Nazi tool. Because he doesn't seem to have such a high ideal of protecting all mankind, he just wants to let his compatriots by his side live as long as possible.
People like Salomon are calculating, he knows his value to the Nazis, he knows how to maximize that value, he tries to help others, but he also tries to protect himself. This is different from Burger's only wanting jade pieces and not wanting tiles.
The Nazis failed, maybe because they delayed the coinage, but it wasn't in their calculations, it just happened to happen. Salomon has been making counterfeit money, and it is only because of Burger's destruction and his own determination not to sell his countrymen that the time is delayed again and again. Salomon wouldn't be a hero without Burger.
In the end, Salomon used an almost cathartic money-throwing behavior to express his dissatisfaction with his counterfeiting for the Nazis. But if he did it all over again, he wouldn't be like Burger. Even if there is no Burger around, will he really become an accomplice of the Nazis, and everything is just to keep more people around him. So is he a hero or a sinner?

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