Born in 1891 to an intellectual family in Germany, Rommel obeyed his father's wishes at the age of 19 and enlisted in the military academy. During World War I, Rommel demonstrated extraordinary command skills, leading 3 soldiers to defeat 20 French troops and capturing more than 5,000 prisoners. After the war, he worked as a military academy instructor and instructor, and during his tenure he wrote the book "Infantry Attack", which was the book Rommel that came into Hitler's attention.
In 1940 Rommel became commander of the Panzer Division, and in 1941 he was appointed commander of the "German African Army", and it was his excellent command skills that turned the situation in North Africa around. On October 14, 1944, Rommel committed suicide by poisoning Hitler. Many German commanders, whether alive or dead, were liquidated after the war, but Rommel was an exception, and even the Allies praised Rommel.
First, Rommel stuck to the bottom line: not to slaughter innocents. During World War II, the German army actually had two kinds of formations, one was the Wehrmacht, which was composed of orthodox officers under the Ministry of Defense, and from a legal point of view, this army was only loyal to the state and not to the Führer. Another type of army is the SS as we know it, which evolved from Hitler's former SA, who was loyal only to the Führer, and most of the war crimes committed by the German army during World War II were committed by the SS. Rommel was a Wehrmacht officer who had repeatedly and openly refused to carry out Hitler's orders to kill, and had written to Hitler to speak for the Jews, believing that war was war and that nothing other than war could be involved.
Second, Rommel possessed excellent military command skills. Rommel was one of the few commanders in the world who excelled in both World War I and World War II, and from World War I to World War II, all of Rommel's exploits were fired by himself. In 1940 Rommel became the commander of the Seventh Panzer Division, and during the blitzkrieg against Western Europe, Rommel was always at the forefront, a unit known to the French as the "Devil's Division".
Finally, Rommel has a unique personal charm. Rommel was a very pure soldier, respecting his opponents and treating his prisoners well. In 1941, the British sent 59 people to assassinate Rommel, the operation code-named "flipper". However, the operation ended in failure, and only two people escaped. When Rommel learned of this, he had great respect for the courage of the British commandos and held a solemn funeral for the assassination squad leader, Lieutenant Colonel Keys, while mailing photos of the funeral and cemetery to Keith's family.
On the eve of the Normandy landings, an Allied soldier named Wooldridge was captured by the Germans just after marriage, and with a mortal heart, he did not expect that he would be served in a prisoner-of-war camp, and afterwards he learned that the commander of the army that captured him was Rommel, although Hitler repeatedly asked Rommel to kill the prisoner, but Rommel still withstood the pressure to release him, and after the war Wooldridge personally found Rommel's son and came to the door to complain about it.