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Apparently before becoming really acquainted with Hitler, Rommel was more likely to have been promoted to be a mountain division commander based on his WW1 experience, but in 1939 after surviving his assassination in the Beer Hall in Munich, the Elser attempt, he gave Rommel his choice of command and Rommel asked for a Panzer division. I'm getting this from a documentary about Rommel according to his son in an interview. So what if Rommel became a mountain division commander instead because say he doesn't get command of the Führerbegleitbrigade or Hitler doesn't give it to him? What would he have pulled off there and would he have been better suited to that? Who replaces him with 7th Panzer and the Afrika Korps?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#Poland_1939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#Poland_1939
Rommel received a promotion to a general's rank from Hitler ahead of more senior officers, skipping a rank. Rommel was subsequently able, with an intervention from Hitler, to obtain the command he aspired to, despite having been earlier turned down by the army's personnel office, which had offered him command of a mountain division instead.[57]