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Rommel’s humane approach was almost unique among German commanders.
Göring (left) and Himmler, at one time the chiefs of the Gestapo and SS, respectively, were two of Hitler’s most fervent disciples.
The intensely nationalistic Tojo was hanged as a war criminal on December 23, 1948.
Except for the surprisingly compassionate Erwin Rommel, the key Axis leaders were all blinded by a hateful combination of unreasoning nationalism and racist ideology that justified some of history’s most atrocious examples of human cruelty.
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was something of an anomaly in the German military command. Yes, he was a brilliant commander, known as the Desert Fox …Read the Rest
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