The corpses of SS men lie on The Kharkov battlefield. Because of their well-documented cruelty on the Eastern Front, SS soldiers were almost never taken prisoner by the Russians, who preferred to execute any such captives on the spot.

Erwin Rommel

Relationship with National Socialism

Rommel was not a member of the Nazi Party. Rommel and Hitler had a close and genuine, if complicated, personal relationship. Rommel, as other Wehrmacht officers, welcomed the Nazi rise to power. Numerous historians state that Rommel was one of Hitler's favourite generals and that his close relationship with the dictator benefited both his inter-war and war-time career.

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