What is the story with Erwin Rommel?

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What is the evidence that he was approached by two of Hitler’s generals with the ultimatum to commit suicide or go on trial with the liklihood of public execution?

Apparently, though he was involved in the coup, he was not of the character to commit assassinations, and had not even known about the attempts to assassinate Hitler by the time he was injured from an ally bombing of his car which had him hospitalized and sent home during the climax of all of that mess.

Then again, this is from sources which claim the man was in disagreement with Hitler about executing POWs and Yehuborim...

 

[Luna Black]

You could try asking our Fuhrer himself what happened with Rommel. There is a quite a bit of shady area in towards the end of this story. Supposedly Rommel wasn't dealt with along other traitors (why ?!) but would have been confronted personally later and given the choice to suicide discreetly. And this whole story only surfaced after the war and was primarily supported by his dead widow's "confessions". I am not sure, maybe it was actually the case but it could very well be a hoax.
Dying from a complication of his severe wounds ? Getting killed somehow ?

 

[Luna Black]

I've just come to this article, "The Conspiracy Against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel":
http://www.renegadetribune.com/the-...arshal-erwin-rommel-from-greatness-to-suicide

Thanks for sharing that.

 

[jay]

What is the evidence that he was approached by two of Hitler’s generals with the ultimatum to commit suicide or go on trial with the liklihood of public execution?

Apparently, though he was involved in the coup, he was not of the character to commit assassinations, and had not even known about the attempts to assassinate Hitler by the time he was injured from an ally bombing of his car which had him hospitalized and sent home during the climax of all of that mess.

Then again, this is from sources which claim the man was in disagreement with Hitler about executing POWs and Yehuborim...

You should read David Irvings book on Rommel. It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember my takeaway is that bigger conspirators of the plot were guys under Rommel like Speidel.

I believe Rommel was approached about the plot, and just discarded it completely with zero intentions of ever acting against Hitler. he took his role as a loyal soldier seriously. Where his mistake was was not reporting these guys immediately likely out of friendship/loyalty. When the plot unraveled guys like Speidel were captured they played the game of blaming higherups for not stamping it out eventually putting the blame on Rommel who was the Western front commander at the time.

after the war Speidel further perpetuated the Rommel myth because it was clear in postwar Germany only those
associated with the Stauffenberg assasination attempt would be considered anti-nazi and given favorable positions. and Speidel was Rommels chief of staff so it made sense to build up Rommels (and thus his own) involvement.

I could be wrong, but this was just my takeaway.

 

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You could try asking our Fuhrer himself what happened with Rommel. There is a quite a bit of shady area in towards the end of this story. Supposedly Rommel wasn't dealt with along other traitors (why ?!) but would have been confronted personally later and given the choice to suicide discreetly. And this whole story only surfaced after the war and was primarily supported by his dead widow's "confessions". I am not sure, maybe it was actually the case but it could very well be a hoax.
Dying from a complication of his severe wounds ? Getting killed somehow ?

You added excellent pry to this topic, thank you for your points Sinistra.

 

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I've just come to this article, "The Conspiracy Against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel":
http://www.renegadetribune.com/the-...arshal-erwin-rommel-from-greatness-to-suicide

I appreciate the resource, Egon.

 

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What is the evidence that he was approached by two of Hitler’s generals with the ultimatum to commit suicide or go on trial with the liklihood of public execution?

Apparently, though he was involved in the coup, he was not of the character to commit assassinations, and had not even known about the attempts to assassinate Hitler by the time he was injured from an ally bombing of his car which had him hospitalized and sent home during the climax of all of that mess.

Then again, this is from sources which claim the man was in disagreement with Hitler about executing POWs and Yehuborim...

You should read David Irvings book on Rommel. It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember my takeaway is that bigger conspirators of the plot were guys under Rommel like Speidel.

I believe Rommel was approached about the plot, and just discarded it completely with zero intentions of ever acting against Hitler. he took his role as a loyal soldier seriously. Where his mistake was was not reporting these guys immediately likely out of friendship/loyalty. When the plot unraveled guys like Speidel were captured they played the game of blaming higherups for not stamping it out eventually putting the blame on Rommel who was the Western front commander at the time.

after the war Speidel further perpetuated the Rommel myth because it was clear in postwar Germany only those
associated with the Stauffenberg assasination attempt would be considered anti-nazi and given favorable positions. and Speidel was Rommels chief of staff so it made sense to build up Rommels (and thus his own) involvement.

I could be wrong, but this was just my takeaway.

Useful information, Im glad you all responded.