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Walburga Stemmer (March 1892 – October 1928) was a woman who had an affair with German field marshal Erwin Rommel and gave birth to his daughter, Gertrud Stemmer (later Mrs. Gertrud Pan), on 8 December 1913. Rommel's family put pressure on him to leave Stemmer and return to his fiancée Lucie Mollin, whom he soon married.
Some historians take issue with Rommel's absence from Normandy on the day of the Allied invasion, 6 June 1944. He had left France on 5 June and was at home on the 6th celebrating his wife's birthday. (According to Rommel, he planned to proceed to see Hitler the next day to discuss the situation in Normandy).
He was the only son of Wehrmacht Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his wife Lucia Maria Mollin (1894–1971), and contributed to the establishment of museums in his father's honour. He was also known for his friendship with George Patton IV and David Montgomery , the sons of his father's two principal military adversaries.
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 ...
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Erwin Rommel Recinos Zuniga, 28, had been on house arrest for the 2022 crash in West Flagler that killed Paola Sabillon, her boyfriend Jason Meza and his cousin Giselle Reyes before he was sent ...
The Rommel Museum was located in Blaustein in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The museum was dedicated to the memory of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel , popularly known as the "Desert Fox". The museum opened in 1989 and was located in the Villa Lindenhof in the borough of Herrlingen, and closed in May 2019. [ 1 ]
Rommel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), German field marshal of the Second World War Manfred Rommel (1928–2013), mayor of Stuttgart and son of Erwin Rommel; Adrien Rommel (1914–1963), French fencer; Eddie Rommel (1897–1970), American baseball pitcher and umpire