4,981 if you add Rommel. A personnel guy tried to save his own neck and "implicated" Erwin. The dye was cast and whether suicide or some one else's hand, he was a marked (and doomed) man.
Historians still don’t seem to have nailed down just how much Rommel knew. There’s an excellent biography of Rommel (Knight’s Cross) that goes into it but the best the author can surmise is that Rommel knew *something* was up, and was not opposed to a coup d’etat, but had always expressed firm opposition to an assassination attempt—he wanted Hitler deposed and brought before a court to be tried for his crimes.
But in any case, he had lost confidence in the Germans’ ability to win the war, and for that alone, he would be expected to die. The six weeks he served in command on the Western Front trying to hold off the Allied invasion of France made it very plain to him that Germany was doomed.
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