Rommel is a famous military scientist and tactician in the world's military history, known as the "Eagle of the Empire" and the "Fox of the Desert", Rommel's most brilliant moment is that during his tenure as the commander of the African Army Group, he repeatedly defeated the British army with inferior troops, and his outstanding military ability and clever tactical command ability were unanimously recognized by the Allied generals. Of the three german generals, only Rommel did not survive to the day the war ended. This was because in 1944 there was a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in Nazi Germany, and Rommel was unknowingly implicated and eventually killed by Hitler.
So some people speculated that if Rommel lived to the end of the war, what would be the end? Although Rommel did not live to see the end of World War II, Rommel did not appear on the list of war criminals in the post-war trial, which means that even if Rommel could survive the war, he would not be prosecuted by the Allies as a war criminal, because Rommel was a real soldier, not a criminal war criminal.
The so-called war criminals, as the name suggests, are those who have committed war crimes. Although Rommel was one of the 8 most famous generals in Nazi Germany and caused huge losses to the Allies in the war, Rommel was also the only senior German general respected by the Allies. In the words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, "Although we fight each other on the battlefield, let me say that he is a great general".
Churchill's views represented the basic Allied view of Rommel, and on the surface, Rommel, as a German soldier, was loyal to Hitler in the early stages of the war, and indeed acted as Hitler's war "arsonist", which contributed to the abuse, but the fault was Hitler, not Rommel. Later in the war, Rommel realized his mistake and took an active part in the overthrow of Hitler, although he was not successful and forced to commit suicide by poisoning, but he was also killed.
Rommel played little role in the assassination of Hitler, and he was certainly not the most central member of the organization in Operation July 20 (assassination of Hitler). But at the same time, he was not just a sympathizer and gave his life for it. Thus, there should be a Rommel position in the military struggle against Hitler to a much greater extent than is recognized by academics and the public. Historians and commentators have ultimately concluded that Rommel remained an ambiguous, contradictory figure that is difficult to define inside or outside the "myth."