 Butler writes that it was unfair to blame Rommel considering that he had been kept ignorant of Operation Barbarossa.Butler also questions the need to obey his superiors' higher strategy, considering that Hitler never had a coherent grand strategy.opines that Rommel actually had approval of his German (and later Italian) superiors (including Hitler and the High Command) in conducting the Afrika Korps as a mobile striking force and for his offensives.