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Honourable Nazis?

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  Posted by Parti-NG-ton Blue (U13898629) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009

  I have just finished reading an article about Erwin Rommel and even though he was a Nazi General he seems to be a decent man and a "Gentleman" soldier of old school values.
  
  Is this a generally accepted view of Rommel and if so are there many others that are regarding in a favourable light?
  
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  Peter

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  Posted by MattJ18 (U13798409) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009

  That's the popular view of Rommel I'd say. He's helped by the fact that he did only fought in the West and was killed/committed suicide in the end when he tried became involved in the Hitler assasination plot. He's certainly portrayed fairly decently in British war films...
  
  Most other German are tainted by their actions on the Eastern front. Von Manstein for example seems a professional soldier of the old school, but he was complicit in the killing of Jews and others in Russia.

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  Posted by Parti-NG-ton Blue (U13898629) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009

  Wasn't Rommel given the option (or so I'm led to believe) of killing himself and being declared a hero or being shot and declared a traitor?
  
  I always thought that the Rommel link to the assassination on Hitler was just "convenient" to Hitler when wanting to be rid of Rommel.

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  Posted by Mikestone8 (U13249270) on Tuesday, 21st April 2009

  Wasn't Rommel given the option (or so I'm led to believe) of killing himself and being declared a hero or being shot and declared a traitor?Β 
  
  
  Yes. He chose the former because the latter would have meant retribution on his wife and son as well as himself.
  
  
  
  I always thought that the Rommel link to the assassination on Hitler was just "convenient" to Hitler when wanting to be rid of Rommel.?Β 
  
  Without that connection Hitler had no reason to want to get rid of Rommel.
  
  

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  Posted by Mani (U1821129) on Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

  JWB1865
  
  
  He was never a member of the Nazi party, so not a 'Nazi General'.
  
  His actions were certainly consitent with his reputation.
  
  He refused to kill jewish POW's out of hand. He refused Hitler's 'Commando order'.
  
  Also, he wasn't involved in the Assasination plot against Hitler, he was just aware of it but didn't spill the beans.

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