some sources claim that he was planned to take the rule by overthrowing hitler, and so that for entangling himself in this conspiracy he was killed. This was later used as a redeeming quality for him, to create a modern mythologic figure for the post-war Germans, as an example of a guy who didn’t lose his head.

Both sides have already been glorifying him, ones due to the direct benefit, the others so that the blame couldn’t be placed onto themself for losing a battle to the glorious “desert fox”.

Or so i’ve heard