Regarding the article about Rommel: Any German general who succeeded in occupying new areas of land in a military campaign would necessarily, inevitably bring in his wake the Nazi administration with all its vicious abuses of Jews and other targeted populations. That's a given. Why should that, however, be a personal judgement on the character of the general himself? Generals in all professional armies try their utmost to win the battles they are fighting. That's their job, regardless of the political situation. It's also their job to see that their country does not lose a war.

The fact that they may be serving an evil administration does not necessarily make them evil people.

Professional soldiers fight. It's what they trained their whole lives to do. Sometimes they have the bad luck to be fighting on behalf of some very nasty politicians and a very twisted cause, but you probably won't hear about that unless you're on the other side...in which case you will hear about it all the livelong day! And your kids will hear about it. And their kids. And their kids.

Good mental programming for future wars.