Second thoughts

The historian Peter Lieb states that it was not clear whether the threat of defeat was the only reason [Rommel] wanted to switch sides.  The relationship seemed to go downhill ... after a conversation in July 1943, in which Hitler told Rommel that if they did not win the war, the Germans could rot. Rommel even began to think that it was lucky that his Afrika Korps was now safe as POWs and could escape Hitler's Wagnerian ending.

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