How did Rommel actually die?

Answer 1

Rommel took part of the "Walkyries Operation", operation to murder Hitler and signed the peace with the Allied, before the total annihilation of Germany. The colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg was in charge of the bomb, but it didn't kill Hitler.
Fast, the Nazis discovered that Rommel took part of the complot, or, at least, he didn't do anything to prevent it. But, thanks to his popularity, the Nazis offered him to choose between poison or to be sued. If he choosed the poison, it was mainly to preserve the lifes of his wife and his son. The two generals Burgdorf and Maisel brought him the poison the october 14th.
The fact that Rommel choosed suicide was a good news for the Nazis, who wouldn't risk to sue a so famous general.

Answer 2

State ordered execution by forced suicide. Hitler ordered his execution without trial for suspicion of high treason: the assassination attempt on Hitler. Rommel was never fully implicated in the assassination attempt, but most of his closest aides were involved. It is likely Rommel knew of the plot, but of much speculation. The Desert Fox was allowed to take poison due to his service in Africa. This service defined modern warfare and made him the most popular German general. As such his execution was covered up under the guise he had died from actual wounds received when a British jet fighter attacked his car. Two things are of subsidiary concern past this ‘officially recognized’ version of history. The British knew that Rommel opposed Hitler and of the plot to kill Hitler and certainly would not want to have had Rommel assassinated as he favored a brokered peace and was very influential making the British jet attacking his car suspect. Although this could easily have been a target of opportunity where the jet fighter pilot had no idea it was Rommel or that the British government felt his technical proficiency was too much of a risk in any case. The jet pilot has never come forward. Was it possible this was a German jet disguised as British in a failed first attempt by Hitler to kill Rommel without the German public knowing? It is also of note that although he spoke with his son about being forced to take poison, Rommel was never seen by his son dead. His car disappears over a hill. It may have been a plot to abscond Rommel before the collapse of Germany. Many historians do not believe this to be true, but just as President and Vice President do not usually appear at the same place, it may have been an attempt to separate the German High Command in order to perpetuate after the ,then, impending invasion. Rommel could be alive today. In any case, Rommel was a military genius whose cause will forever shroud his contributions.

also of note, no memebr of the Afrika Corps was ever implicated in any war crimes. Rommel was the only General who refused to excute Jewish POWs and history appears to exonerate him in any connection with the atriciotes often associated with the NAZI casue. It appears Rommel was a Soilder who respected both his enemy and his homeland. Some speculate that his support for Hitler and the war may have reversed upon discovery of those atrocities.

Answer 3

Rommel was not actually involved in the plot directly but he knew about what was going to happen.The person who was to set the bomb was the Wermacht colonel Von Stauffenberg who was later on shot as a traitor.The actual thing is that Stauffenberg informed Rommel about the plot and asked from him his officers word to remain silent.Since Hitler found out that Rommel knew he gave him a choice either to commit suicide and that he would be buried with all the honours or to stand the trial which would humiliate him.He chose the suicide and was buried with all the military honours and even Hitler was present at the funeral.The official explanation was that Rommel committed suicide while under nervous disorder.

Answer 4

Hitler and/or his administration grouped Rommel in with everyone else who they said had a part in the attempt on Hitler's life. I don't think Rommel was actually a part of the attempt but he may have been the one the plotters hoped would assend and take over the government and end the war. Rommel was given the opportunity to take his own life. Hitler was so stupid. He was losing the war so what does he do? Kills his best militart leader.

Answer 5

1. Hitler didn't trust the Wehrmacht. 2. The war was going badly. 3. The only thing standing between cessation of hostilities was either a cease fire or kill Hitler. 4. The S.S. was a formidable barrier against this kind of thing. Hitler trusted them because they had sworn an oath of personal loyalty to him. Not the state. Hence; The Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. 5. The act itself would be seen as beneath the dignity of an elite, professional military class. 6. Rommel was approached in a kind of sense of a senior counsel. 7. I doubt it's ever been proven he gave a green light but he was certainly suspected as being among the plotters. 8. They were caught, and executed. 9. To spare the state the trauma of a national war hero ( and he really was ) being publlicly degraded with a trial and an execution fomenting speculation ad infinitum, it was agreed he should take poison, and promised a military funeral with full honors. He left his house, got in a car with official types, took the poison, and was dead quite quickly.

Answer 6

In the autumn of 1944 Hitler discovered that Rommel was plotting against him. On 14th October, 1944, Rommel was visited by two generals who had been sent by Hitler with an ultimatum: suicide with a state funeral and protection for his family and staff, or trial for high treason. Erwin Rommel took poison and officially it was stated that he had died of a brain seizure.

Answer 7

As early as the fall of 1943, Rommelhad been convinced that the war could no longer be won and that Hitler was prepared neither to face that fact nor to draw the inevitable conclusion--the necessity of making peace with the Western powers. In the spring of 1944 some of Rommel's friends who had joined the clandestine opposition to Hitler approached Rommel and suggested to him that it was his duty to take over as head of state after Hitler had been overthrown. Rommel did not reject the suggestion, but the men who wanted to extricate Germany from the war never revealed to Rommel that they planned to assassinate Hitler. They knew that Rommel did not accept the idea of murder for political ends; he had invariably disregarded any execution orders given by Hitler. When the invasion began, Rommel tried on several occasions to point out to Hitler that the war was lost and that he should come to terms with the Western powers. On July 17, 1944, at the height of the invasion battle, Rommel's car was attacked by British fighter-bombers and forced off the road. It somersaulted, and Rommel was hospitalized with serious head injuries. In August he had recovered sufficiently to be able to return to his home to convalesce. In the meantime, after the failure of the attempt on Hitler's life on July 20, 1944, Rommel's contacts with the conspirators had come to light. Hitler did not want the "people's marshal" to appear before the court as his enemy and thence be taken to the gallows. He sent two generals to Rommel to offer him poison with the assurance that his name and that of his family would remain unsullied if he avoided a trial. On October 14 Rommel took poison, thus ending his life. He was later buried with full military honours.

Answer 8

Rommel was implicated in the assination plot to kill Hitler at the Wolf's lair bunker. Two General Staff Officers arrived at his house and spoke with him briefly in private. Rommel spoke to his wife and informed her what had occurred and that he will be forced to commit suicide by cyanide capsule. Hitler told the staff officers to inform Rommel that should he refuse to kill himself, he would be shot and his family sent to death camps. Killing himself would result in a state funeral with a hero's burial and his family left alone. Hitler preferred the suicide because to expose Rommel as a traitor when he was considered one of the greatest military men in the country would have damaging results with the German people.

Answer 9

Poison. He was implicated in the July'44 bomb plot against Hitler.

He was given a choice of committing suicide or face a biased trial where he will be declared guilty & his family thrown into a concentration camp. He chose suicide & was driven to a location where he ingested the poison while in the car. It is said that he died with a look of contempt on his face.

Answer 10

Though I despise the Nazis,I have some respect
for Rommel.He hated the Hitler but he was a solider
first and followed orders.He and William Canaris
who was the head of German intelligence got a really raw deal.