| Tango01 | 23 Feb 2021 3:39 p.m. PST |
"Today, 76 years ago, one of Germany's most famous military commanders met an inescapable death sentence—not by the hands of the enemy, but by the leaders of his own country. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, 52, was forced to commit suicide near the scenic village of Herrlingen on Oct. 14, 1944. "To die at the hands of one's own people is hard," Rommel told his 15-year-old son Manfred minutes before he left their house for the last time. "But the house is surrounded and Hitler is charging me with high treason." The peaceful town, Herrlingen, located in a rugged and hilly region known as the Swabian Alps, was a place Rommel had been familiar with since boyhood. In the hopes of keeping his family safe from Allied bombing, Rommel chose this out-of-the-way spot as a refuge for his wife and son…"
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 The Virtual Armchair General  | 24 Feb 2021 11:28 a.m. PST |
The Desert Fox… forever. TVAG |
| Tango01 | 24 Feb 2021 12:21 p.m. PST |
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| Choctaw | 24 Feb 2021 12:54 p.m. PST |
Just think of the books Rommel could have written had he survived the war. Just another reason to hate the Nazis. |
 deadhead  | 24 Feb 2021 2:53 p.m. PST |
Snag was that Rommel was very committed to old AH to start with. I am not suggesting he was anti Semitic or wanted to see the other non Aryan races exterminated. It is just we have no idea what he really felt, or was prepared to do, about such atrocities. Many perfectly decent Germans resented the downfall from Versailles and the collapse of everything they valued, in the Armistice and the late 20s and early 30s. Old AH seemed to have salvaged them (so long as you fitted the desired Genetic code). Rommel was "lucky". He (most notably) served in a relatively "sterile" theatre, in North Africa and with distinction in France 1940 and Northern Italy (inactively), before NW Europe. Rommel was anti Hitler because he saw that the Axis was inevitably going to lose the war. The real heroes were the Tom Cruises, the von Stauff's, except he served with distinction as well in Nort Africa. It does get complicated does it not? |
| The Virtual Armchair General | 25 Feb 2021 12:22 p.m. PST |
Choctaw! Actually, Rommel was working on a history of his service in North Africa. Extensive notes survive as well as countless photos personally taken he intended to illustrate it with. Yes, that Austrian-Meth-Head-Psychopath took that from us, too. TVAG |
| Tango01 | 25 Feb 2021 1:06 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
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| deephorse | 26 Feb 2021 4:00 a.m. PST |
Yes, that Austrian-Meth-Head-Psychopath took that from us, too. That must be pretty much the least of what he is responsible for taking from people. |
| The Virtual Armchair General | 26 Feb 2021 12:11 p.m. PST |
Well, I DID say "too!" TVAG |
| deadhead | 26 Feb 2021 2:40 p.m. PST |
Thanks Tango. I presume we will no longer be able to receive such postings directly onto this forum, or will we have to go to the newly revised Links Directory Board? |
| Tango01 | 26 Feb 2021 4:13 p.m. PST |
Not for the moment my good friend!… (smile)
I have fait that Bill could change this situation…
If not… it was a great ride!…
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Armand
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| The Virtual Armchair General | 01 Mar 2021 10:47 a.m. PST |
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| MacColla | 02 Mar 2021 1:30 p.m. PST |
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