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Originally Posted by salinator
The Afrika Korps were responible for the internment and forced labor of Tunisian Jews.
If Rommel had survived the war, he would have stood trial for the forced labor at Tunisa and maybe also at Normandy.
That said, I do believe him to have served chivalry the best that he could.
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Sal,
Interesting comment about Tunisia. However, the question is was Rommel was responsible for political actions in North Africa? If not, then it would have been a politically based prosecution. I know that some argue that the mere fact that he was in North Africa was part of the Nazi plan to export the Holocaust to the Middle East, but those decisions were made by the politicians (Nazis) to whom Rommel reported.
Not all German generals were prosecuted. Guderian was not even though he participated in Barbarossa.
Walter Rauff of the RSHA was in charge of the actions in Tunisia against civilians in general and Jews in particular. Ironically, he survived the war and was protected by foreign governments, particularly that of Chile. How much Rommel aided Rauff is not known to me, but my guess is that Rommel had more important considerations at the time.