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Historians
In El Alamein 1942 Rommel was beaten by a better general no but by quantity. Rommel knew he was losing so he decoded to withdraw. Hitler said fight to the last man. Rommel's son Manfred says he went to Hitler's headquarters to plead to take the Afrika corp to Italy. Hitler threw him out. Rommel's secretary Rolf Munninger states that Rommel broke with Hitler over El Alamein. He had no compassion for his troops. He took them to Tunisia against Hitler's orders. Rommel wrote a farewell letter to his wife possibly thinking Hitler would have him shot. In it he says "I pray to the lord I lay awake at night with open eyes and rack my brain to find a way out from this misery for my troops. When Hitler sent him on leave probably worried about shooting a German hero. Rommel said "the war is as good as lost unfortunately the people at the top are fanatical to the point of madness." In my opinion historians want to come out with a new slant. Lets get a few facts and make stories around them. From the evidence I have written here his thoughts and feelings are not that of a psychopath. I have never read once where Hitler showed that much compassion for his own troops. There are those who criticise Rommel he wasted human life for his ambition and career but they come across to me as envious of his military talent.
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