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Rommel’s funeral procession.
Rommel’s case was turned over to the “Court of Military Honour”—a drumhead court-martial convened to decide the fate of officers involved in the conspiracy. The court included, among others, Wilhelm Keitel, Heinz Guderian, Gerd von Rundstedt and Heinrich Kirchheim[324][325][326] (whom Rommel had fired after Tobruk in 1941).[143] The Court acquired information from Speidel, Hofacker and others that implicated Rommel, with Keitel and Kaltenbrunner assuming that he had taken part in the subversion. Keitel and Guderian then made the decision that favoured Speidel’s case and at the same time shifted the blame to Rommel.[327][328][329] By normal procedure, this would lead to Rommel’s being brought to RolandFreisler’s People’s Court, a kangaroo court that always decided in favour of the prosecution. However, Hitler knew that having Rommel branded and executed as a traitor would severely damage morale on the home front.[330][324] He thus decided to offer Rommel the chance to take his own life.[331]
Two generals from Hitler’s headquarters, Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel, visited Rommel at his home on 14 October 1944. Burgdorf informed him of the charges and offered him three options: he could choose to defend himself personally to Hitler in Berlin,[N 10] or if he refused to do so (which would be taken as an admission of guilt), he would either face the People’s Court—which would have been tantamount to a death sentence—or choose a quiet suicide. In the former case, his family would have suffered even before the all-but-certain conviction and execution, and his staff would have been arrested and executed as well. In the latter case, the government would claim that he died a hero and bury him with full military honours, and his family would receive full pension payments. Burgdorf had brought a cyanide capsule.[333]
Rommel denied involvement in the plot, declared his love for Hitler and that he would gladly serve his “Fatherland” again.[334] Der Spiegel takes notice of the fact that he was talking to his messengers of death and some would claim that he was acting out of helpless defense (although Der Spiegel thought his love for Hitler felt sincere)[335] while Remy suggests that Rommel was trying in some way to apologize to Hitler, towards whom he had conflicting emotions, which Ernst Maisel[336][337] realized and found “disgusting” and “a hypocrisy”, because Maisel (a loyal, unapologetic Hitler supporter, even after the war) could not understand how someone could try to kill someone he loved (Rommel’s previous replies about his role in the attempt made Maisel believe that he was part of the plot).[338][339][340][341][N 11][342]
As Rommel thought the matter over, an SS detachment surrounded his village, leading him to conclude that if he agreed to face the People’s Court, he would not reach Berlin alive.[343] With that in mind, Rommel opted to commit suicide, and explained his decision to his wife and son.[343] Wearing his Afrika Korps jacket and carrying his field marshal’s baton, Rommel went to Burgdorf’s Opel, driven by SS Master Sergeant Heinrich Doose, and was driven out of the village. After stopping, Doose and Maisel walked away from the car, leaving Rommel with Burgdorf. Five minutes later Burgdorf gestured to the two men to return to the car, and Doose noticed that Rommel was slumped over, having taken the cyanide. He died before being taken to the Wagner-Schule field hospital. Ten minutes later, the group telephoned Rommel’s wife to inform her of his death.[344][345][346][347] Witnesses were struck by the smile of deep contempt on the dead man’s face, never seen in life, and his widow thought it was for Hitler.[348][349]
Rommel’s grave
The official story of Rommel’s death, as reported to the public, stated that Rommel had died of either a heart attack or a cerebral embolism—a complication of the skull fractures he had suffered in the earlier strafing of his staff car.[350][351][352][353] To strengthen the story still further, Hitler ordered an official day of mourning in commemoration. As previously promised, Rommel was given a state funeral. The fact that his state funeral was held in Ulm instead of Berlin had, according to his son, been stipulated by Rommel.[354] Rommel had specified that no political paraphernalia be displayed on his corpse, but the Nazis made sure his coffin was festooned with swastikas.[355] Hitler sent Field Marshal von Rundstedt, who was unaware that Rommel had died as a result of Hitler’s orders, as his representative at Rommel’s funeral.[356] The body was cremated so no incriminating evidence would be left.[348] The truth behind Rommel’s death became known to the Allies when intelligence officer Charles Marshall interviewed Rommel’s widow, Lucia Rommel,[357] as well as from a letter by Rommel’s son Manfred in April 1945.[358]
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