Rommel

>>9948203
I'm a fan of Nazism. I'm redpilled. Let's take back our white women. Praise Lord fucking Kek

>>9948203
Rommel hated the Nazis and wanted Hitler dead. This has to be in the back of anyone's mind when evaluating Rommel and all he did and didn't do in ww2. He remains an enigma, lucky in war, unlucky in assassination plots.

>>9948326
he was hardly even involved in any assassination plots

he knew about it, in so much as he was approached and turned them down and didn't say anything afterwards about it

>>9948355
He was a melancholy man, a thinker, very subdued. I don't know, anon. But for such a man to say nothing says alot. And don't forget that he was approached for a reason. And what do (you) suppose that reason was?

>>9948203
Fairly accurate, he's also one of the "good nazis" Americans are allowed to like but that's slightly unrelated.

Early in the war people were terrified of another WW1 so they avoided blindly thrusting in the dark. When Rommel attacked the allies assumed it was a much larger attack because that's what they had trained for. This is why the British abandoned the French in the early stages of the war, they were convinced that the German threat was more like a massive WW1 style all out assault so they didn't commit many trips to assist on the continent and ran away when things got ugly. It's also the reason why the Germans hesitated at Dunkirk, the war had moved much faster than anyone anticipated and neither side wanted to get stuck in the trenches again, too many scars from the last war.

idk I only read books.
Why don't you ask /r/AskHistorians/ or /his/?