Well, I think that LooseCannon knows a great deal more about him than I do. You might know that, despite having opened this thread, I'm not overly interested in military history.
The thing with Rommel is, I feel very uncomfortable with the subject. He is a bit of an icon among certain circles in Germany. He stands for an element of the Nazi-era German population that was patriotic and nationalistic, but did not sympathise with the Nazis. Rommel is considered a military genius who believed in the glory of Germany and did his duty for the fatherland, but had no love for Hitler. The key to this interpretation is of course the 20th July conspiracy. It is certain that Rommel knew of the plot and did not do anything to prevent it, but just how appreciative he was of the role the conspirators wanted to give him is a matter of dispute - especially because, eventually, he never got to play it. Popular history has him commit suicide because that was the only way he could keep his honour and not be tried for high treason, although he probably did it because he wanted to save his family.
So Rommel is the last Good German to have commanded the German military, and as such he is adored by the conservatives and nationalists. Some conservative towns have streets named after him, and he frequently appears in the media, not as a Nazi, not as an anti-Nazi, but simply as the greatest general Germany ever had, one who is clean, who never ordered to burn any villages or shoot any Jews, and one whom his enemies respected. We don't have many of those.
I guess his purported military genius is something we can discuss in this thread, because I'm not so enthusiastic about it even from a militarist perspective. But more than that, I do have a bit of a problem with the ethos behind all this. It's not like Nazism is the only bad thing to come out of Germany in the twentieth century. Next year, we are going to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War which, from within Germany, was spawned by nationalism and militarism, something that Rommel very much does stand for. I don't like the glorification of militarism and military people, and therefore I feel very uncomfortable with the spotlight that German history gives the military resistance against Hitler, either. Maybe they weren't supportive of gassing Jews, but that wasn't their concern. Their concern was the glory of the German nation, and the dilettantish command of Hitler's. In modern-day Germany, that is a potential source for nationalist identification, and that is something that I am very concerned about.