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In truth, Rommel was guilty of nothing more than keeping his own counsel. Like Kluge, like Guderain, he had sensed that a plot was in the wind - and though no man was witness to his conversation on July 9 with Hofacker, adjutant to the military governor of Paris, he seems always to have rejected assassination. Instead, with or without Hitler's consent he favoured peace feelers to his "friendly enemy", Montgomery. Yet, aware of a plot, he had kept silent. For Hitler, this was complicity enough.
On October 13, Rommel learned by telephone that General Wilhelm Bufgdorf, Hitler's newly appointed chief adjutant, and General major Ernst Maisel, head of the army personnel branch's legal section, would be calling at his Herrlingen villa between nooon and 1 p.m. the next day.
Rommel was under no illusions. On the morning of October 14, during a long tramp into the woods with his son, Manfred, Rommel told him, "Today will decide what is planned for me, whether a People's Court or a new command in the East." "Would you accept such a command?", Manfred asked. Rommel took his son's arm. "My dear boy, our enemy in the East is so terrible that every other consideration has to give way before it... Of course I would go."
The generals arrived punctually at noon: Burgdorf, burly and florid, Maisel, shorter, with a beaked nose. Both men, though the souls of coutesey, declined Lucie Rommel's invitation to lunch. It was, they explained, official business. All three retired to Rommel's ground-floor study.
They had no Eastern Command to offer Rommel, only a choice: a People's Court or a poison capsule, to be followed by a state funeral with full honours. (The wreath had already arrived at Ulm railway station, nearby). Though testimonys obtained under Gestapo duress had falsely implicated him, the Desert Fox was too precious to German legend to perish through a garotte of piano wire.
There were brief restrained farewells with Lucie and Manfred. Then, shrugging into his topcoat, firmly clasping his field marshal's baton, Rommel passed from the villa, to climb into the back of Burgdorf's small Opel. The driver, SS Haptscharfuhrer Heinrich Doose, let in the clutch and the car cruised 200 yards down the road before pulling up on Burgdorf's orders. Following instructions, Doose and Masel sauntered slowly down the road.
Five, perhaps ten minutes later, Burgdorf called them back. In the rear seat, Rommel was unconscious, but not yet dead - "slumped down and sobbing", Doose was to recall, "not a death-rattle or groaning but sobbing."
Solitiously, the SS man helped the Field Marshal to sit bolt upright, as a soldier should. Then, carefully, he replaced Rommel's fallen cap.