He may well have been a fine soldier, but he was an instrument of the Nazi regime who used his name and reputation for their advantage; anyone fighting for Nazi Germany in WW2 was the same. They may not have been shovelling bodies into the furnaces themselves, but they were all part of the regime that did, and it is hard to escape from that. Some may have resisted the regime, like Rommel and the bomb plotters, but you could argue that was only when things were going bad for Germany: which leaves a rather hollow tone IMHO.
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