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Rommel's war is always part of Hitler's war of worldviews, whether Rommel wanted it or not." [426] More specifically, several German historians have revealed the existence of plans to exterminate Jews in Egypt and Palestine, if Rommel had succeeded in his goal of invading the Middle East during 1942 by SS unit embedded to Afrika Korps. [218]
Panzer greift an (known as Tank Attacks in English) is an unfinished book on armoured tactics and warfare by Erwin Rommel. It was to be the follow-up and companion work to his earlier and highly successful Infanterie greift an , which was published in 1937.
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.
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.
The book included Rommel's writings of the war, edited by the British journalist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart, the former Wehrmacht officer Fritz Bayerlein, who served on Rommel's staff in North Africa, and Rommel's widow and son. The volume contained an introduction and commentary by Liddell Hart.
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.
Desert Victory is a 1943 film produced by the British Ministry of Information, documenting the Allies' North African campaign against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps. This documentary traces the struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery , from German and Italian defeats at El Alamein to Tripoli.
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]