There's a huge amount of hype (and I suspect there always has been) about Rommel for being the 'Good Nazi' and practicing, as he described it, "Krieg ohne Hasse" or 'War without hate'. At the same time, he has a reputation for being a superb general, but, upon examining him a fair bit (including reading "The Rommel Papers", and a few other minor extracts) I'm beginning to get the distinct impression that he really wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.

It seems to me that Rommel, despite being an excellent tactician, wasn't exactly a unicum of strategy. Certainly he was a good strategist and a good general, but I almost feel like he was promoted to his 'level of incompetence'.

As far as logistics goes, I'm aware that in his main campaign, North Africa, control of supplies was largely out of his hands (what with most of them being siphoned off for the Russian front and most of what remained being sunk in the Mediterranean). Despite this, I'm not really getting a clear picture of his ability to handle logistics. I presume he must've been relatively skilled, given how long he managed to run an effective war effort on considerably diminished supplies (and against an opponent with an effectively overwhelming logistical advantage). Could the folks at AskHistorians shed some light on his skills in this area?

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