The white wash continues
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039592/Rommel-family-fury-film-portrays-Desert-Fox-war-criminal-upstart-Hitlers-pet.html
Sigh. Regular readers will know of my disdain at the whole "good german" myth. It is a lie perpetrated first of all by the Germans, for obvious reasons; and secondly by the U.S. which, since the early 50's felt a stronger and stronger need for a Germany that was re-militarized and fully in the NATO camp for a war to defend against the Soviets. Rommel, like virtually all german generals was an enthusiastic supporter of hitler AND his policies - until they started to lose the war. Then, going against their own enthusiastic sworn oaths, they turned tail and tried to assassinate their leader in an attempt to curry favor with the Allies before the Russians could overrun their estates in Prussia and burn out their cities from the Western air forces. Rommel turned, not because of some great principle, but because he knew that after El Alamein, it was all over. The long slide had begun. And he didn't want to go down with the ship. Understandable, but hardly noble, and having nothing whatsoever to due with any liberal anti-nazi stand. The sad fact of the matter is that the REAL opposition to hitler and nazism in germany was small, scattered, futile, and doomed to failure. Heroes, one and all, but doomed.
Sigh. Regular readers will know of my disdain at the whole "good german" myth. It is a lie perpetrated first of all by the Germans, for obvious reasons; and secondly by the U.S. which, since the early 50's felt a stronger and stronger need for a Germany that was re-militarized and fully in the NATO camp for a war to defend against the Soviets. Rommel, like virtually all german generals was an enthusiastic supporter of hitler AND his policies - until they started to lose the war. Then, going against their own enthusiastic sworn oaths, they turned tail and tried to assassinate their leader in an attempt to curry favor with the Allies before the Russians could overrun their estates in Prussia and burn out their cities from the Western air forces. Rommel turned, not because of some great principle, but because he knew that after El Alamein, it was all over. The long slide had begun. And he didn't want to go down with the ship. Understandable, but hardly noble, and having nothing whatsoever to due with any liberal anti-nazi stand. The sad fact of the matter is that the REAL opposition to hitler and nazism in germany was small, scattered, futile, and doomed to failure. Heroes, one and all, but doomed.
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