To: InvisibleChurch
I was reading “Devil's Guard,” the memiors of an SS partisan-hunter, and wondering the same thing. I imagine that Guiderin (sic?) and/or Rommel would have taken control and negotiated for an acceptable peace with the western allies, but continued the war with Russia, perhaps with western aid. As for the holocaust, I dunno. It was pretty well underway and would the gestapo have stood by and let it end if the new German leaders wished it to? I think that the average German citizen, those who knew of it, were probably ashamed and would have been relieved to see it ended.
To: Copenhagen Smile; InvisibleChurch
If Rommel or any other Wehrmacht general came to power, the Holocaust would have ended immediately. the concentration camps would be disbanded. The Wehrmacht never liked that and turned a blind eye -- especially Rommel
the Gestapo were Himmler's personal toy. Rommel disliked them, as did the rest of the Wehrmacht OberKommand. They would have been terminated.
56 posted on
06/05/2012 3:40:28 AM PDT by
Cronos
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To: Copenhagen Smile; Eye of Unk; rusty schucklefurd; I cannot think of a name; et al
64 posted on
06/05/2012 6:37:56 AM PDT by
InvisibleChurch
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