Yes, thanks for the correction, Teribus. As you say, Rommel was never a member of the Nazi Party.

My point was that the people who go into a righteous fury over anyone who speaks of a German WWII commander as if he were a normal human being....just because he is an "evil Nazi" in their eyes...that anyone who does that is a bit stupid or a bit unable to use their imagination and place themselves in another person's shoes...because if they had been born as German in his time they would very, very likely have done exactly the same as he did and supported the German war effort with all their ability and strength...specially if they are the type now who has a high regard for patriotism to his own country in time of war.

Rommel may have been peripherally involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944....the Gestapo certainly thought he was...or he may have simply known of it in some way before it happened...hard to say at this point. At any rate, he was forced to either face trial or take poison. He took the poison.

It was the opinion of a great many German commanders (probably a majority of them in 1944) that the country would be better off without Adolf HItler by that time...this again being their natural response to the fact that they were patriotic men (as well as realistic men) and they realized that his leadership was causing the utter ruination of Germany and prolonging the war beyond all reason. To have such an opinion is one thing. To be able to do something effective about it in the midst of a police state fighting desperately for survival is quite another. One has, after all, a hell of a lot of other stuff to attend to on a daily basis, and one cannot easily plan such a thing secretly and bring it off effectively. One is likely to fail, get caught, and get executed...as happened to the key people in the plot that exploded the bomb in Hitler's bunker.