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The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his presumed participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler, which led to Rommel's forced suicide in 1944.
Hearing of Rommel's reputation as an outstanding military instructor, in February 1937 Hitler assigned him as the War Ministry liaison officer to the Hitler Youth in charge of military training. Here Rommel clashed with Baldur von Schirach, the Hitler Youth leader, over the training that the boys should receive. [43]
The Afrika Korps formed on 11 January 1941 and one of Adolf Hitler's favourite generals, Erwin Rommel, was designated as commander on 11 February.Originally Hans von Funck was to have commanded it, but Hitler loathed von Funck, as he had been a personal staff officer of Werner von Fritsch until von Fritsch was dismissed in 1938.
Infantry Attacks (German: Infanterie greift an) is a classic book on military tactics written by Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I.At the time of the book's writing in the mid-1930s, Rommel's rank was lieutenant colonel.
Erwin Rommel's memory was used for post-war propaganda. After the war Wehrmacht officers and generals produced a slew of memoirs that followed the myth of the clean Wehrmacht. [77] Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian produced best-selling memoirs. [78] Guderian's memoirs contained numerous exaggerations, untruths and omissions.
He had been in two invasions before D-Day. He landed in North Africa and watched from a mountain observation post as German General Erwin Rommel’s tanks destroyed the allied forces at Kasserine ...
The city of Bellingham filed the lawsuit in Whatcom County Superior Court on Nov. 22 against Erwin Rommel for not cleaning up the encampment and for causing a public nuisance.
Political scientist Ralph Rotte [] calls for his replacement with Manfred von Richthofen. [3] Cornelia Hecht opines that whatever judgement history will pass on Rommel – who was the idol of World War II as well as the integration figure of the post-war Republic – it is now the time in which the Bundeswehr should rely on its own history and tradition, and not any Wehrmacht commander. [11]