How did the Nazi government conceal the circumstances of Erwin Rommel’s death?

The Nazi government concealed the true circumstances of Erwin Rommel’s death by offering him a choice between suicide and a public trial for his involvement in the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler.

Following the failure of the July Plot to assassinate Hitler, Rommel’s connections to the conspirators were discovered. To avoid the public scandal of executing a popular national hero—the so-called "people's marshal"—Hitler sent two generals to Rommel with poison. They assured him that if he took his own life, his reputation and that of his family would remain unsullied, thereby preventing him from appearing as an enemy of the state in court. Rommel chose to take the poison on October 14, 1944, and was subsequently buried with full military honors, effectively masking his forced suicide as a natural or honorable death in the eyes of the public.1