[Panzermacher]

I truly love this.....Last time I posed all this, I took a royal beating, with whips and chains....

FS I think Rommel would have adapted well to Theatre Commander with no problems. He was a very adaptable man and commander. Yeah, he had a bad habit of rushing up and doing his own recon. And yes he almost got shot down and captured more than a few times, but this is a double edged sword. He may have been away from contact with his Command.....but he had the "Best seat in the house" for many battles. (personally, I would rather see my Front Commander take an active interest in what was going down, and have a better idea of how to react in situations, then have him in a comfy command wagon MILES from the action deciding from a map and sketchy reports.)

Granted, Rommel would NOT have had control over his rear areas. Yet again, given some of the powers he had with "Der Fuhrer", I think complaints would have quelled it to a point. (Maybe not enough to stop the Einsatz groups, but at least they would had to walk a little softer....IMO.)

Hitler would probably have not bowed out of the Command aspect....but Hitler DID listen to Rommel more so than other Generals and Marshals. (Sounds strange, I know, but Even in Rommel's own Memoirs he mentioned the fact that Hitler gave him more free rein then the other Commanders. But yet again, The "Fox" gave results. And being Hitler's Favorite and pet had it's advantage to a point. ( Yet Again, a double edged sword, it ALSO can get him dead!))