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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Rommel wasn't a nazi, and several times before D-Day he had urged Hitler to surrender, stating that the hold of territories gained by invasion would be bartering chips lost if an invasion succeeded. So I can see how he would be sympathetic to the plot and thus Hitler's need to eliminate him.
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You're correct on that regard. Rommel was never a member of the NSDAP (the acronym 'Nazi' was rarely used within Germany). He did command Hitler's Army escort and protection battalion at the beginning of the war. Along with that he was already a minor celebrity, having written Infanterie greift an ("Infantry Attacks" - his account of combat service in World War I; probably the best book on modern small-unit infantry tactics).
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