Was Rommel a Nazi and was he aware of the concentration camps?

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    • I agree

      billybatts13 wrote:

      Rommel was a field marshal,a member of the high command,forced to kill himself on Hitlers orders.i think its pretty safe to say he knew about the camps.not saying he was for them though.

      if you want to know him you should checkout these books he wrote.

      goodreads.com/book/show/23280859-rommel

      goodreads.com/book/show/250945.Rommel_and_His_Art_of_War

      and my personal favorite of all his books

      goodreads.com/book/show/152163.The_Rommel_Papers


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    • Following this thread you can reach the conclusion that Rommel was not nazi, and was unaware of the concentration camps... According to the survey.


      "I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.


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    • lol
      Carl Wilson

      “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
      ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

      "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'… Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China."
      Bernard Law Montgomery, British general

    • Carl Wilson wrote:

      lol
      What do you mean?


      "I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.


      "Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.

    • Quasi-duck wrote:

      Sorry, he means Laugh Out Loud.
      Ok.


      "I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.


      "Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.

    • After reading the entire thread I did find it somewhat disturbing that only one contributor mentioned the Einsatzgruppen that early in the war followed in the tracks of the tanks and laid waste to many communities who initially welcomed the German invaders as liberators...in Stalin's starving and subjugated Western provinces at least :/

      My research suggests for example that Guderians' failure to take Moscow was due to the rebellion behind him as Hitlers' Deaths Head Troops moved in behind his advance and attacked the populace...and who then almost cut off his lines of supply in their fury :/ He had to turn back under disputed orders...and the fate of Barbarossa was sealed. Moscow was never reached as the oncoming Winter stopped the advance.

      Adolf and his Nazi Supremacists got their comeuppance for that xenophobic stupidity ...and within years his people were paid back in similarly cruel kind.

      But...back to Rommel and other possible or likely non Nazi military leaders at the time...how could they have not known the death and destruction occurring behind them ? Their supply lines ran through the destruction. Their officers must have seen this and reported it. Nazi or not...they knew what was going on. They were culpable...but what could they do?

      Are we all victims of circumstance in the political and military environment of our own time ?

    • Tankenfurter wrote:

      After reading the entire thread I did find it somewhat disturbing that only one contributor mentioned the Einsatzgruppen that early in the war followed in the tracks of the tanks and laid waste to many communities who initially welcomed the German invaders as liberators...in Stalin's starving and subjugated Western provinces at least :/

      My research suggests for example that Guderians' failure to take Moscow was due to the rebellion behind him as Hitlers' Deaths Head Troops moved in behind his advance and attacked the populace...and who then almost cut off his lines of supply in their fury :/ He had to turn back under disputed orders...and the fate of Barbarossa was sealed. Moscow was never reached as the oncoming Winter stopped the advance.

      Adolf and his Nazi Supremacists got their comeuppance for that xenophobic stupidity ...and within years his people were paid back in similarly cruel kind.

      But...back to Rommel and other possible or likely non Nazi military leaders at the time...how could they have not known the death and destruction occurring behind them ? Their supply lines ran through the destruction. Their officers must have seen this and reported it. Nazi or not...they knew what was going on. They were culpable...but what could they do?

      Are we all victims of circumstance in the political and military environment of our own time ?
      Its possible he was aware, but pretending he didnt, as he wouldnt want to get caught up in all of that..



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    • Tankenfurter wrote:

      My research suggests for example that Guderians' failure to take Moscow was due to the rebellion behind him as Hitlers' Deaths Head Troops moved in behind his advance and attacked the populace...and who then almost cut off his lines of supply in their fury He had to turn back under disputed orders...and the fate of Barbarossa was sealed. Moscow was never reached as the oncoming Winter stopped the advance.
      Moscow was never reached for a multitude of reasons. One of the main reasons is that it is in Russia/USSR.

      Tankenfurter wrote:

      Adolf and his Nazi Supremacists got their comeuppance for that xenophobic stupidity
      Sadly, a helluva lot lived.
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    • Wasn't the capturing of Moscow also rendered impossible because Hitler ordered Guderian to Kiev, giving the Russians time to move up reinfocements?
      Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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      Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
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    • Kehsct wrote:

      Wasn't the capturing of Moscow also rendered impossible because Hitler ordered Guderian to Kiev, giving the Russians time to move up reinfocements?
      Yes, and the city was a fortress, and it had hundreds of AA guns and searchlights, and there was hundreds of fighters giving it cover, and no one can dig a hole as fast as a Russian, and blah blah blah. The Germans would never take Moscow.
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    • oceanhawk wrote:

      The main reason, the Germans never took Moscow, is a one word answer

      Hitler
      So true.
      Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
      -Winston Churchill

      Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
      -George S. Patton