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Suppose that Rommel's wounds in Normandy render him entirely bedridden for the duration of the war and that, for whatever reason, Hitler ignores him in the aftermath of the July 20 bomb plot. Cooped up somewhere in southern Germany, Rommel is still alive when the war comes to an end and only just beginning to recover.

(Not really that concerned with the specific POD, honestly.)

When the war crimes trials begin, do the Allies prosecute Rommel the way they did with so many other generals? If so, what would be the result? The Allies themselves built up the "Rommel myth" of the "good German" as a means of explaining their failure to win the campaign in North Africa for so long; can they now switch their attitude and declare him as much of a fervent Nazi as the rest of them? How would the Allies deal with a living Rommel when the war came to an end?
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