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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 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.
Rommel was highly respected by his enemies and was considered to be the last of the knights.
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  Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rommel was born in Heidenheim, approximately 50 km from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
Rommel became the youngest recipient of Prussia's highest medal, the Pour le Mérite, an honor traditionally reserved for generals only and which he received after fighting in the mountains of north-east Italy.
Rommel inflicted a sharp reversal on the American forces at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
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 General Erwin Rommel
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.
With the situation again in hand, Rommel's 7th Panzer rolled south of Arras, but on May 24th a halt was ordered by OKW to allow the infantry to move up to protect the exposed armored spearheads.
Rommel sustained severe head injuries and was eventually moved to a Luftwaffe hospital at Bernay, where he gradually recovered.
www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/1695/Text/rommel.html   (2126 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Erwin Rommel (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Rommel brilliantly commanded an armored division in the attack (1940) on France.
Rommel was recalled to Germany before the Afrika Korps's final defeat.
Allied success led Rommel, who had lost his respect for Hitler, to agree to a plot to remove Hitler from office.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rommel-E.html   (317 words)

  
 Erwin Rommel : Nazi Germany
Rommel was given command of the 7th Panzer Division that invaded France in May, 1940.
Rommel was now sent to head the German Army in France that was preparing for the Allied invasion.
In 1910 Rommel was an officer cadet in the Wurtemberg Regiment.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERrommel.htm   (1772 words)

  
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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.
Rommel bids farewell to his wife and son and is driven off in an army car having swallowed the capsule.
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Rommel's one obsession at this time was the capture of Tobruk, and to boost morale and sharpen their fighting spirit he instigated a limited operation which was code named "Unternehmen Sommernachstraum" (Midsummer Night's Dream).
Rommel had little or no reserves left to stave off this new threat, and was resigned to sending two reconnaissance battalions eastward to keep tab on 13th Corps.
Rommel was in his glory, and at midnight he radioed Rome and Berlin to say that he could envisage the complete destruction of the British Eighth Army if his supplies continued to arrive as promised.
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 Erwin Rommel - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rommel was born in Heidenheim an der Brentz, approximately 50km from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
The British Commander-in-Chief General Archibald Wavell swopped commaneds with the Commander-in-Chief of India, General Claude Auchinleck.
Due to Rommel's popularity with the German people, Hitler gave him an option to commit suicide with cyanide or face dishonour and retaliation against his family and staff.
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 The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944
By the beginning of 1943, Rommel's faith in Germany's ability to win the war was crumbling, as was his estimation of Hitler.
Rommel became convinced that victory for Germany was a lost cause and that prolonging the war would lead only to his homeland's devastation.
The family was aware that Rommel was under suspicion and that his chief of staff and his commanding officer had both been executed.
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /rommel.htm   (1526 words)

  
 Biografía de Erwin Rommel
Rommel se encargó de cumplir con esa misión al pié de la letra, dejando pasar solo 6 coches después del Führer, aunque hubieran muchos otros coches llenos de miembros del partido, muchos de ellos arrogantes que amenazaban a Rommel para que los dejara pasar.
Rommel decidió usar sus cañones Flak de 88 mm.
En enero del 42 Rommel inicia su contraofensiva y obliga a los ingleses a retirarse hasta la línea de Gazala donde recibe su cruz de caballero con hojas de roble, espadas y diamantes.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was born in Heidenheim, Wurttemberg, on Nov. 15, 1891.
In 1941, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was given command of the German troops in Libya.
On Oct. 14, 1944, he was visited by two German generals investigating the cases of officers suspected of complicity in the July 20 plot against Hitler's life.
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 Leaders, Operation Torch
General Eisenhower and his immature staff have not been able to coordinate all of the efforts of U.S. agencies in theater, and this has led to several embarrasing errors.
Darlan and his navy retain general French admiration because of his hard line policies against the British and because the French Navy was the one force that was not defeated by Hitler in 1940.
Major General George S. Patton is a brilliant general with a superb combat record from World War I. Patton is the leading expert on tank warfare and retains a reputation as being an aggressive innovator.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Books supplement | What's it all about
Rommel was first noticed during the First World War, when he was awarded the highest German decoration for capturing Monte Major, a key Italian position, which resulted in a major Italian defeat and rout.
From now on Rommel knew that he was fighting a losing battle and ceased to believe in the possibility of German victory in the war.
Although Rommel thought the 1944 attempt on Hitler's life in Berlin stupid, believing that peace negotiations should have been arranged in the west with the Allies, his enforced suicide following the German defeat in France was a tragedy for his country.
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 Service of Supply WWII Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
He was the only General to not have ever been fired by Hitler, and fought on till the end of the war in 1945.
General Patton was an expert with a sword, and learned to fly airplanes and sail his oceangoing yacht.
The General died in a car accident one day before he was scheduled to return to the United States on 21 December 1945.
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 German Army falls at El Alamein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rommel was poised to charge into Egypt, occupy Cairo, and take control of Britain's lifeline to its interests in the Middle East, the Suez Canal.
General Montgomery was planning an all-out offensive in which subterfuge and illusions would play critical roles.
To convince General Rommel that the British were not planning an offensive, captured German agents were turned and told to send out radio messages reporting that General Montgomery's forces were not ready to start an offensive before November.
aia.lackland.af.mil /homepages/pa/spokesman/Dec04/heritage.cfm   (1954 words)

  
 The Trail of the Desert Fox -- Erwin Rommel Revised
Rommel was not a general staff officer, although he rose to the highest rank in Germany short of Reichsmarschall: Field Marshal.
Rommel, like Hitler himself, had a kind of magical quality that protected him in some way from harm, from the enemy, that in turn engendered an enormous loyalty among their followers: the men who served under Rommel swore by him.
For Rommel thought that the problem building up around his name was not so much connected with the twentieth of July, because he knew he was in the clear-he had known nothing about it-but that he was going to be made the fallguy, the scapegoat for the collapse in France.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v10/v10p417_Irving.html   (7313 words)

  
 German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel Desert Fox
Rommel was born in Heidenheim, approximately 50km from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
Rommel inflicted a sharp reversal on the American forces at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
Rommel ended his own life on October 14, 1944, and was buried with full military honours.
www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/rommel_desert_fox.htm   (1587 words)

  
 Automags.Org Online Forums - General Erwin Rommel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rommel failed to use the momentum from the Khyber Pass destruction of Allied armor, to push the Brits back to Tobruk and into the sea.
Given coastal command over the channel was a blow to his leadership, being accused as a conspiritor in the bombing attempt on Hitler, and losing even the last, smallest, control of his beloved Afika Corps, drove him to suicide, rather than a trial and humiliation.
Funny how Rommel was accused of plotting the death of hitler, and ultimately commited suicide, and how Patton commanded the "phantom army" in Britain that successfully deceived the Germans into thinking we were going to attack them elsewhere on D-day.
www.automags.org /forums/showthread.php?t=56608   (784 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tobruk 1941: Rommel's Opening Move (Campaign, 80): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Given the limited scope of the Osprey format and the general nature of the series' reading audience, Latimer has done a superb job of outlining most of the important aspects of this campaign and of pointing the interested reader in the direction of further, fuller accounts.
Rommel is the only Axis commander given serious attention and even the Allied commanders are mostly glossed over.
The section on opposing armies is totally superficial, focusing on a general discussion of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns, rather than discussing the units involved in the siege.
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 Sixty Years Ago, the Battle of El Alamein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Rommel’s successful use of blitzkrieg stunned the British and they were routed from their positions in quick order.
Rommel decided to launch a new offensive in mid-January, when he hoped to be able to pry more resources out of the German Army fighting on the Continent.
Rommel protested Hitler’s orders, “you must hold fast, never retreat, hurl every gun and every man into the fray”, and after a fruitless rebuttal started his retreat on 2 November.
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 The High Places » Blog Archive » What General Am I?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
However, Rommel lost in Africa despite the fact that his logicians had told him time and time again that the English were planning to shut off his supply lines.
But that being said, Rommel was one of the greatest strategic and tactical minds of our day.
Erwin Rommel entered the army in 1910 and rose slowly through the ranks.
mrcheevus.net /blog/2005/09/21/what-general-am-i   (433 words)

  
 Erwin Rommel --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Desert Fox was the nickname Field Marshal Erwin Rommel earned for his brilliant leadership of Germany's Afrika Korps in North Africa during World War II.
He was an outstanding tactician who purposely turned down the chance to become a member of the German general staff in order to remain a front-line officer.
The Desert Rats, led by General Allen Francis Harding, were especially noted for a hard-fought, three-month campaign against the more experienced German Afrika Korps, led by General Erwin Rommel (“The Desert Fox”).
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276782?tocId=9276782&query=el-alamein   (695 words)

  
 Hall of World War II
23 General Macarthur decides to evacuate Manila and withdraw to Bataan.
2 Rommel’s advance stops at border of Egypt.
General Eisenhower is formally designated Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, Europe, by Combined Chiefs of Staff.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Rommel Papers: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
When Erwin Rommel diedby forced suicide at Hitlers commandhe left behind in various ingenious hiding places the papers that recorded the story of his dramatic career and the exact details of his masterly campaigns.
To this is added by Rommels son Manfred the story of the field marshalls last weeks and the final day when he was given the choice of an honorable suicide or an ignominious trial for treason.
Undoubtably the most perceptive and insightful German commander of the war, Rommel exhibits incredible understranding of troops, commanders, and what is possible and impossible on the battle field.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0306801574   (896 words)

  
 Rommel, Erwin on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
(Erwin Rommel) (Showdown in the Gulf) (Cover Story)
(Erwin Rommel's nickname, ATandT transmits international FAX messages to military personnel involved in Operation Desert Shield)
THE REAL DESERT RAT; It was one of the biggest security blunders of the war.
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 The Desert Foxes - Book of Legions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Until then, simply use the entry I have made in the CODEX for Rommel.
His characteristics are those of Marneus Calgar, Master of the Ultramarines, as shown in the CODEX: Space Marines (Warhammer 40, 000 Version 3).
If you have no idea what Warhammer 40, 000 or the Space Marines are, or want to find out more, then please click on Information.
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Damn, I get a series of everybody quitting messages and when you come back we are in the middle of a detailed discussion of a scenario or something instead of the startup inainities.
Life takes a strange course when I'd rather be exchanging discourse with the caliber of you folks than examining the virtues of the female curve.
I mean a new person as a generic example.
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 Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel - November 15 Other Birthdays William Pitt statesman (1708) William Herschel astronomer (1738) Felix...
Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen (1891-1944) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia)
World History since 1550: Erwin Rommel (ROM-uhl) (The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy)
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 Space General - Space Strategy Game
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
SPACE GENERAL is a free space strategy game.
This is a space war game with 40 space ship types, 30 scenarios, death-matches and campaigns
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 Panzer general - Open Directory - Games: Video Games: Strategy: Turn-Based: Panzer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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Panzer General (Codes), from Prima Games the world's leading publisher of official game guides for computer games and video games.
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 Dowsing References
Leonardo De Vinci, Robert Boyle (father of modern chemistry), Charles Richet (nobel prize winner), Albert Einstein, General Rommel of the German Army, and General Patton (U.S. Army).
Actually, General Patton had a complete willow tree flown to Morocco so that a dowser could use branches from it to find water to replace the wells the German Army had blown up.
The British army used dowsers on the Falkland Island to remove mines.
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 Battlefield 2 or 2142? Which to buy? - FileFront Gaming Forums
FileFront Gaming Forums > The Games > Battlefield Series > Battlefield 2 > Battlefield 2 General Discussion
Next week I will buy one of the two games, but I cant make up my mind, either the Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (Has all the Expansions), or 2142, which looks cool but i think it has less maps to play on and gets boring fast.
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