All well and good, but in the end, any soldier that led men could have been considered a war criminal. Is there actual evidence (not just what some folks who wanted to make a documentary) that Rommel would have been prosecuted? I have read the article at Wiki (copied verbatim from the article in "The Independent" at
'Chivalrous' Rommel wanted to bring Holocaust to Middle East - Europe, News - The Independent) from which you cut and pasted. There is nothing there that states definitively that he would have faced prosecution. Without any evidence to the contrary, stating that he would have faced prosecution is supposition.