And yet Rommel was probably the leader you would most want to take over if Hitler and Heydrich were assassinated. Otherwise, those two make a martyr of the Desert Fox and use his death as an excuse to be even more brutal to those already oppressed. There were enough Wehrmacht officers looking for a way out in 1944 that a timely slug or bomb might have done the trick…in fact, Rommel’s suicide was a result of his possible knowledge of 20 July plot to kill the Fuhrer. If it was me, I wouldn’t have shot him.