Part of the same paranoia that affect Napoleon Bonaparte also affected Hitler- any as the Russians were closing in on Berlin, both Rommel and Himmler tried to escape undetected-- only Goebbels and his wife and children remained to die with Adolph and Eva in the bunker in Berlin-- sort of a Teutonic play on the old "rats deserting the sinking ship" scenario.
This is just conjecture, not based on fact--
You need to read up a bit on Rommel.
-- Hallo- Eine augen auf der adler herin- You are most correct sir- it was an error on my part, and I meant to write Goering and Himmler- FM Irwin Rommel chose to commit suicide rather than face a trail after the July attempt 1944 on Hitler & co. at Die Wolfschantz-- by doing this he was granted a State funeral and his wife and son Manfred Rommel were spared-
Manfred Rommel is often seen doing commentaries on the History channel when the topic is the third Reich-- I won a subscription to a WW11 history magazine (I was born in 1940) re: the great 1970 movie Patton- where Gen. Patton said "Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book" The book- Der Panzeren in Kreig- was written by Rommel's mentor- in 1933 Gen. Oberst (Colonel General) Hans Guiderian--Patton got his insight into tanks in WW1, and before that, mobilized warfare via Ford Model T's in Mexico after bandito Pancho Villa- Ole!!!
