NIK PARMEN
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Let's say that in 1944 Rommel instead commit suicide after the failed assination attempted against Hitler escapes to Switzerland or surrenders to the Americans. What's next?
Well, according to some sources, he DID walk into an Allied Field Hospital in North Africa and get out, though not without being noticed.He's arrested and killed. Germany's most recognizable man -- after the big leaders -- isn't going to waltz into Switzerland unnoticed.
Provided he Managed to Sneak his Family Out with him ...First, Rommel was constrained by the fact that his family would have been killed (or worse) if he did nor kill himself.
Second, Rommel's later standing as an "anti-Hitler" conspirator was largely secured by the fact that the Nazis forced him to hill himself. In fact his only involvement with the plots was that he knew about them and did not tell anybody. Had he fled to Switzerland his credentials as an anti-Nazi would be diminshed since he would have done essentially nothing noteworthy to demonstrate a sincere opposition to the Nazi regime - like getting killed by it. It would basically be his word that he became an opponent of the regime against the fact that, more than many German officers, he actively curried favor with the regime to get where he was throughout the 1930's and early 1940's.
He would die in exile in Switzerland.
If he did escape, I imagine his family would be killed. To save them is part of the reason he killed himself to begin with.