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	Erwin Rommel
		Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (November 15, 1891 - October 14, 1944) was a German Field Marshal and commander of the Afrika Korps in World War II.
		Rommel was born in Heidenheim an der Brentz[?], approximately 50km from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
		Rommel ended his own life on October 14, 1944, and was buried with full military honours.
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	Achtung Panzer! - Erwin Rommel!
		Erwin Rommel was born on November 15th of 1891 in Heidenheim an der Brentz near Ulm in the state of Wurttemberg.
		Erwin Rommel was unable to establish defensive positions nor to launch an offensive due to the lack of equipment and supplies and decided to retreat to the German bridgehead at Tunis.
		Erwin Rommel was given the choice of suicide, to be reported as death from his wounds, as an alternative to execution as a traitor, which would have placed his family and close associates in grave danger.
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	Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rommel was born in Heidenheim, Germany, approximately 45 kilometres from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
		He was the second son of a Protestant Headmaster of the secondary school at Aalen, Erwin Rommel the elder and Helene von Luz, a daughter of a prominent local dignitary.
		Rommel, for his sake, was complimentary towards and respectful of his foes, particularly praising the ANZACs who fought under Montgomery - and is incorrectly attributed to calling the Australian defenders the playful nickname, the 'Rats of Tobruk'.
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	Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
		Rommel sends a teletype memo to Hitler, telling him that the Allies are clearly winning and strongly suggesting that he sue for peace, or cut Germany's losses and withdraw all German troops to inside the German border.
		On October 14, 1944, two generals visit Rommel at his home in Errlingen and hand him a cyanide capsule and a message from Hitler: commit suicide and be buried with honors or stand trial for high treason and be hung, which implies the loss of his family's honor.
		Rommel bids farewell to his wife and son, and is driven off in an army car, having swallowed the capsule.
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	::Erwin Rommel::
		Auchinleck, Rommel’s opposite until his sacking by Churchill, sent a memo to his senior commanders in North Africa, to state that it was their responsibility to ensure that their men thought less of Rommel as a ‘super military leader’ and more of him as a normal German commander.
		In February 1944, Rommel was appointed by Hitler to be commander of the defences of the Atlantic Wall.
		Rommel was implicated in the July 1944 Bomb Plot against Hitler and the Gestapo was keen to interview this famous military commander.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /erwin_rommel.htm (794 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was born in Heidenheim, Wurttemberg, on Nov. 15, 1891.
		In 1938, Colonel Rommel was appointed commandant of the War Academy at Wiener Neustadt.
		In 1941, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was given command of the German troops in Libya.
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	Rommel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rommel left Cape Cod, Mass., on July 17 and was hoping to arrive in England -- a distance of nearly 5,000 kilometres -- between 70 and 90 days later after navigating the notoriously choppy North Atlantic.
		Rommel, who describes himself as an extreme-sports fanatic and the fl sheep of his family, admits he began his trip a month too late, leaving himself and his boat vulnerable to rough seas.
		Rommel said his boat capsized five times in all and when he saw that it was letting in water, he decided to use the distress beacons and ask for help.
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	Erwin Rommel
		The speed with which Rommel's force speaheads the 1940 German invasion of France causes it to be nicknamed the Ghost Division and himself as the knight of the Apocalypse.
		Rommel tells Stuelpnagel he will give Hitler one last chance by sending the fuehrer a "blitz" telegram outlining the war in the starkest possible terms and urging Hitler to take immediate action on the diplomatic front or cut Germany's losses and authorize the Werhmacht to evacuate France and fall back to Germany's borders.
		On October 14, two generals visit Rommel at his residence in Errlingen and hand him a cyanide capsule and a message from Hitler: commit suicide and be buried with honors, or stand trial for high treason and be hanged, which implied the loss of his family's livelihood.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Rommel.html (1359 words)

	Desert War
		Erwin Rommel was forced to abandon his siege of Tobruk on 4th December, and the following month had moved as far west as Archibald Wavell had achieved a year previously.
		Erwin Rommel launched his offensive on 26th May. The Italian infantry attacked at the front while Rommel led his panzers round the edge of the fortifications to cut off the supply routes.
		General Harold Alexander was placed in charge of British land forces in the Middle East and Bernard Montgomery became commander of the Eighth Army.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdesert.htm (4985 words)

	The Biography Channel - Erwin Rommel Biography
		Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel joined the 124th Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910, and two years later was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant.
		In 1938, Rommel was placed in command of the battalion responsible for Adolf Hitlerâs safety during the march into the Sudetenland and the entry into Prague.
		Rommel was buried with full military honours, and earned the deep respect of his adversaries for his brilliant achievements.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/186:0/Erwin_Rommel.htm (317 words)

	Erwin Rommel
		Rommel was always considered a practical young man, but one thing that engaged his imagination was the invention of the airplane and possibilities surrounding flight.
		Rommel insisted that in order to properly command his troops, he had to be on the front lines, to see how properly to disperse and order his men.
		Afterwards, Rommel was without an assignment, and was stigmatized because of the failure of the Afrika Corp. However, with the war turning against Germany, Hitler called on one of his favorite commanders, and ordered Rommel to oversee the costal defenses against an anticipated allied amphibious assault.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2rommel.htm (1548 words)

	Erwin Rommel
		Rommel was given command of the 7th Panzer Division that invaded France in May, 1940.
		Erwin Rommel took poison and officially it was stated that he had died of a brain seizure.
		In 1910 Rommel was an officer cadet in the Wurtemberg Regiment.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERrommel.htm (1666 words)

	Biografie van Erwin Rommel, de Woestijnvos
		Erwin Johannes Rommel was born on in 1891 and he joined the German Army as a cadet in 1910.
		Rommel's famous goggles, which he sported in all of his photographs, were actually the pair taken from British General Richard O'Connor when he was captured in April 1941, and not German Army issue.
		With Hitler using the safety of Rommel's family as leverage, Rommel poisoned himself on Oct. 14, 1944, while publicly he was said to have died in an automobile accident.
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	The World at War: Erwin Rommel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rommel served briefly in Italy (1943-44) and then in France, where he greatly strengthened the defenses the Allies would face in the Normandy Invasion.
		Rommel was one of those implicated in the "20th of July plot", but, as he was a popular hero, a public trial could get embarrassing, even for the Nazis.
		Rommel accepted and was given a hero's funeral.
	www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/rommel.htm (450 words)

	General Erwin Rommel
		His father, who was also named Erwin Rommel, died suddenly in 1913, and his mother, Helena, lived on until 1940, long enough to see her second son become a Major-General.
		During the invasion Rommel was well aware of the German Panzer units and the blending of artillery and air support, along with motorized infantry to achieve the desired Blitzkrieg results.
		Rommel sustained severe head injuries and was eventually moved to a Luftwaffe hospital at Bernay, where he gradually recovered.
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	The North African Campaign Of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Erwin Rommel was born on November 15, 1891 and joined the 124th Wurttemburg Infantry Regiment, and participated in the First World War (Also known as the 'Great War' or 'The War To End All Wars') as a Lieutenant.
		Rommels finest battle in North Africa is said to have been Gazala in May 1942, where his superb improvisational skills and mastery of mobile warfare, struck an almost fatal blow to the Allies.
		Rommel, although severely lacking supplies and equipment, held out in Tunisia and had the chance to defeat the Allies, but was denied by the Italian High Command over-ruling his proposed attack.
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	Erwin Rommel
		Born in 1891 in Heidenheim, the son of a schoolmaster, Rommel was a thrifty, loyal and punctual man, with some similarities to Guderian; impatient with authority and capable of driving his men beyond their normal limits.
		Rommel reacted with uncharacteristic panic, but halted the enemy's advance by concentrating the entire sources of his artillery, including his 88mm anti-aircraft guns.
		Rommel and General Hans-Jurjen von Arnim conducted a vigorous defense of Tunisia against the combined Allied armies, inflicting serious damage, but Rommel was sent on sick-leave before it fell on 12 May 1943.
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	Erwin Rommel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rommel was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm, Germany, on November 15, 1891, his father was a schoolteacher; his mother, the daughter of the president of the Wurttemburg ducky.
		Rommel remained in the postwar army and advanced steadily through the ranks as he alternated infantry command positions and instructor assignments.
		Rommel was in Germany on leave when the Allies landed, and he immediately rushed to take charge of the beach defenses.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /military/rommel.html (1151 words)

	The Rommel File
		Rommel led from the front, hopscotching the battle from his Storch aircraft, directing quick thrusts into the belly of the British, leaving open flanks and relying on speed and shock to freeze his enemy while he cut into its flanks.
		As Field Marshal Rommel attacked the British achieved a breakthrough...not on the field of battle, at sea or in the air...but in the ether and in the mind...
		Rommel was so unaware of the subtle deception that he left the front for a much-needed rest cure in the Alps.
	www.stickymedia.com /Scripts/rommel.htm (5577 words)

	Timeline of World War Two (1939-1945) The year 1941
		Erwin Rommel receives the order from Hitler to command two divisions, called The Africa Corps and to go to Libya, to support the Italian troops in their unsuccesful battle against the British.
		Hitler appionts general Erwin Rommel to be commander in chief of the Africa Corps.
		The Africa Corps under the command of General Erwin Rommel attacks the British in Tobrook.
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	BBC - h2g2 - Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel - the Desert Fox
		Rommel took more to the British than he did to the Italians and he had a rather abrasive relationship with his allies, so much so that there were several requests and attempts from the Italian High Command to get him transferred away from Africa.
		Rommel pulled off a 700-mile retreat of an army through unforgiving terrain and in the face of terrible fighter-bomber attacks by the RAF with such a surprisingly minimal loss of men - even the Italians were highly impressed.
		Rommel decided on the poison and took it on 18 October, 1944, at Herrlingen bei Ulm and was buried with full military honours.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A531334 (1721 words)

	Erwin Rommel and an example of Heideggerian Authenticity
		Rommel's desire was to be at the crucial spot at the crucial moment.
		Rommel had, with other great battlefield commanders, the ability to grasp with immediacy the entire picture of ground and situation together with the ability to apply acute observation with uncanny intuition.
		It is unfortunate, in a sense, that Rommel was on a side of war with such militaristic traditions, racist dogma, unbridled nationalism, and, in the end, uncontrollable sadism.
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	Erwin Rommel
		General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel., During World war two, Erwin Rommel, Led the 7th Panzer Ghost Division a a General major, during May 1940 his epic advance from the Ardennes to the English channel.
		General Major Erwin Rommel leads the vanguard of his vaunted 7th Panzer (Ghost) Division past an abandoned French Char B tank on its epic drive from the Ardennes to the English Channel.
		Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, commander of Army Group B, consults with his former subordinate from North Africa, now divisional commander of the elite "Panzer Lehr", General Fritz Bayerlein and the Colonel Rudolf Gerhardt of "Panzer Regiment Lehr", over the imminent transfer of the division to confront the Americans at St. Lo.
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	Erwin Rommel
		Erwin Rommel commander of the Afrika Korps shown in military art print the Desert Fox by David Pentland.
		Erwin Rommel is shown before the Battle of El Alamein.
		General Montgomery launched a British attack in the south in order to divert the Axis forces away from the main attack in the north where the British would attempt to cut two corridors through the extensive minefields so that the armoured divisions could pass through and exploit the gaps.
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	Erwin Rommel
		Rommel brilliantly commanded an armored division in the attack (1940) on France.
		Rommel was recalled to Germany before the Afrika Korps's final defeat.
		campaigns in North Africa: Rommel's Offensives - Rommel's Offensives The collapse of the Italian army forced Germany to reinforce its ally with the...
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	Erwin Rommel - Wikiquote
		Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 - 14 October 1944) German Field Marshal and commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps in World War II.
		Statement from Rommel's suicide note, choosing death by cyanide, rather than one involving the threatened persecution of his family and staff, after being implicated in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
		Exclamation by George S. Patton upon defeating Erwin Rommel's forces in North Africa.
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	Blitzkrieg, 1940
		General Erwin Rommel, who would later gain fame in the African desert as the "Desert Fox", led the 7th Panzer Division as it crashed through the Belgian defenses into France, skirting the Maginot Line and then smashing it from behind.
		Two days later, Rommel and his forces raced behind and parallel to the Maginot Line, and then turned north to attack the fortifications from behind.
		Rommel served in the infantry during World War I. Amazingly, he did not take command of his first panzer unit until 3 months before the German invasion of France.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /blitzkrieg.htm (1267 words)

	Blitzkrieg @ GamersInfo.net
		Facing the fight on two fronts and being outnumbered by their Allied counterparts, German troops must be quick and courageous to achieve the victory that would make the great German generals of the past proud of their successors.
		General Rommel has become the most famous tank commander in the war.
		General Erwin Rommel is commanding two German regiments and the 21st Italian Corps here, and the once-strong Allied garrison of British, Polish and Australian soldiers is already strained severely and ready to capitulate.
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	Tunisia World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		General Jurgen von Arnium takes control of German forces in Tunisia.
		General Harold Alexander sent to oversee Allied operations in Tunisia.
		General Erwin Rommel in command of German forces.
	www.paralumun.com /wartunisia.htm (126 words)

	Erwin Rommel
		"Rommel, a catious commander when there were no need to be reckless, decided to call the action off and resume it in daylight, when he knew what he was up against."
		When the details of the parade were being worked out, Rommel was told by a representative of the SS that in front of his troops there would be a single file of SS men, who would be responsible for Hitlers safety.
		To this he replied that in that case the battalion would not turn out.
	hem.passagen.se /p47/rommel.htm (387 words)

	Tobruk 1941
		In March 1941, with Wavells British troops having routed the Italians from Cyrenaica, General Erwin Rommel arrived in Tripoli to command the Deutsches Afrikakorps.
		In his first offensive, Rommel swept across the desert, driving the British back to the Egyptian frontier and capturing much of the 2nd Armoured Division in the process.
		Wavell instructed General Morshead and his garrison of 30,000 determined Australians to hold at all cost.
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