Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

If only that guard who interuppted Von Stauffenberg
had been 1 minute later history could have been
changed.

Rick 

--- Steve Edwards <sedwards-at-awger.net> wrote:
> Rick v100 wrote:
> 
> >No, Rommel knew of it and kept silence. Rather then
> >face charges and executuion which would have caused
> >problems for the German government he took the
> option
> >to commit suicide.
> >
> >He was not an active participant in the plot. 
> >  
> >
> 
> No "smoking gun" document exists, but Rommel is
> reputed to have balked 
> at the idea of assassinating Hitler. Not because he
> liked the man, but 
> because he wanted Hitler to be arrested and tried in
> a German court. In 
> Rommel's opinion, killing Hitler would have made him
> a martyr to be 
> avenged; only by publicly discrediting and
> prosecuting Hitler and his 
> cult of personality could the sway Hitler held over
> public opinion be 
> turned against him.
> 
> Some have gone so far as to suggest that Rommel had
> his own plans for a 
> coup, which were cut short by the RAF when they
> strafed his car 
> (wounding Rommel and killing his driver). It was
> while Rommel was 
> recouperating that the (final) failed coup was
> launched.
> 
> IMO his suicide was driven more by an implicit
> threat to his family than 
> a public trial (even if by kangaroo court).
> 
>     - Steve
> 
> 


                
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