Even Rommel may have participated in the anti-Hitler plot.https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/898312632704184320 …
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Rommel was an early and enthusiastic Nazi supporter. That he wasn't a lunatic like Göring and company doesn't absolve him.
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it's not really that complex. the anti-Nazi plotters weren't anti-Nazi, they were anti-losing the war. they were royalists/nationalists
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When you are serving moral monstrosities like the Confederacy or the Nazis, it is impossible to be untarnished by it.
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Regardless their personal achievements can be noted, but don't deserve to be celebrated.
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This whole discussion is moot. Germany doesn't honor Rommel with statues -- but enable an appropriate nuanced view in history books.
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Rommel's reputation may have been enhanced (wrongly) by the fact that James Mason played him on screen (twice I think).
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Jeet, come on. Rommel helped prop up a regime that was murdering millions of people. He's not more complex than Lee. There is no complexity.
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the good rommel thing is a myth. he was pretty enthusiastic about the Nazis until the thing started to go sour.
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Not to mention that virtually all opposition to Hitler from German generals, including Rommel, evaporated when Hitler was winning the war.
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