Editing Erwin Rommel (section)

==== Politics ====
Some authors cite, among other cases, Rommel's naive reaction to events in Poland while he was there: he paid a visit to his wife's uncle, famous Polish priest and patriotic leader {{interlanguage link | vertical-align=sup |Edmund Roszczynialski|pl}}, who was murdered within days, but Rommel never understood this and, at his wife's urgings, kept writing letter after letter to Himmler's adjutants asking them to keep track and take care of their relative.{{sfn|Remy|2002|p=44}}{{sfn|Butler|2015|p=148}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Łunecki|first1=Leszek|title=Ks. Edmund Roszczynialski|page=8|url=http://www.zscewice.pl/ftp_public/ks_Edmund_Roszczynialski.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924161053/http://www.zscewice.pl/ftp_public/ks_Edmund_Roszczynialski.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2016}}</ref> Knopp and Mosier agree that he was naive politically, citing his request for a Jewish [[Gauleiter]] in 1943.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Knopp|first1=Guido|title=Hitlers Krieger|date=2013|publisher=C. Bertelsmann Verlag|isbn=978-3-641-11998-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKFaCj-SeTkC&pg=PT54}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mosier|first1=John|title=Cross of Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918–1945|date=2007|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-3-641-11998-0|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrMt1_4KmAAC&pg=PA41}}</ref> Despite this, Lieb finds it hard to believe that a man in Rommel's position could have known nothing about atrocities, while accepting that locally he was separated from the places where these atrocities occurred.<ref name="kas.de"/> ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' comments that Rommel was simply in denial about what happened around him.{{sfn|Fleischhauer|Friedmann|2012}} Alaric Searle points out that it was the early diplomatic successes and bloodless expansion that blinded Rommel to the true nature of his beloved Führer, whom he then naively continued to support.{{sfn|Searle|2014|pp=25–26}} Scheck believes it may be forever unclear whether Rommel recognised the unprecedented depraved character of the regime.{{sfn|Scheck|2010}}