 Unknown to Rommel though, Hitler had barely looked at his diary and the letter was written by an adjutant.Remy remarks that by this time, Hitler still did not treat Rommel as a significantly important person.When Rommel was being considered for appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the summer of 1942, Goebbels wrote in his diary that Rommel "is ideologically sound, is not just sympathetic to the National Socialists.