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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.
	www.achtungpanzer.com /gen1.htm (3079 words)

	Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rommel was born in Heidenheim, approximately 50 km from Ulm, in the state of Württemberg.
		Rommel inflicted a sharp reversal on the American forces at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
		Some historians contrast Rommel's withdrawal of his army back to Tunisia against Hitler's dreams of much greater success than even his capture of Tobruk (in sharp contrast to the fate suffered by the German 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad under the command of Friedrich Paulus which stood its ground and was annihilated).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erwin_Rommel (3291 words)

	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.
		Rommel bid farewell to his wife and son and was driven off in an army car after swallowing the capsule.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Rommel.html (1359 words)

	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.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Hollow/5406/Rommel.html (1100 words)

	World at War: Erwin Rommel
		Rommel felt it was important for the commander to always be near his troops.
		Rommel, aware of the strength of the Allied forces, contended the Allies must not be allowed to establish a beachhead on the coast.
		Rommel and Hitler were once close friends, but since the defeat in North Africa and Hitler's "victory or death" proclamation, Rommel viewed Hitler as a madman who would destroy Germany.
	www.poopdeck90210.com /ww2his/rommel.htm (1192 words)

	Rommel, Erwin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ro/Rommel-E.html (250 words)

	::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 (782 words)

	Biografie van Erwin Rommel, de Woestijnvos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		Realizing the severity of the situation, Rommel went directly to Hitler in the hopes of convincing the Furher that the situation in Normandy was untenable and to have the German army pull back to defensive positions on the Seine.
		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.
	users.skynet.be /fa101291/personen/rommel.htm (1370 words)

	Erwin Rommel : Nazi Germany
		After the war Rommel remained in the German Army and in 1929 he was appointed an instructor at the Infantry School in Dresden.
		Rommel was given command of the 7th Panzer Division that invaded France in May, 1940.
		In 1910 Rommel was an officer cadet in the Wurtemberg Regiment.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERrommel.htm (1772 words)

	channel4.com - Real Lives - Erwin Rommel
		Erwin Rommel was born in 1891 and, as a young man, had a gift for practical things – at one point, he and his friends built a glider.
		But although Lieutenant Rommel was delighted, and wanted to quit the army to marry Walburga, his strict family persuaded him to abandon her and wed Lucie.
		Rommel's affair with Walburga remained secret until Gertrud died in 2000, and her collection of her mother's letters and photographs revealed the truth.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/R/real_lives/rommel.html (899 words)

	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)

	German Leader: Rommel
		Rommel stated "We must stop the enemy in the water, and destroy his equipment while it is still afloat" (176).
		Had Rommel retreated from defending the Atlantic Wall, it is believed Rommel might have fought his last battles in the moving warfare of which he was master (178).
		Rommel was refused the division by von Rundstedt.
	cghs.dade.k12.fl.us /normandy/leaders/german/rommel.htm (1814 words)

	Case Study: Rommel in North Africa
		Rommel was at a disadvantage in that the Axis still considered the North African theater a sideshow.
		Rommel had planned to conduct an infantry screen of the Gazala Line, destroy the southernmost box, and sweep his mobile forces around the southern flank.
		Rommel managed to save the mobile core of his army, but was forced to sacrifice 30,000 infantry to the advancing British.
	www.cs.hmc.edu /~dhamm/wargames/rommel.html (1332 words)

	Encyclopedia: 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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Erwin-Rommel (677 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)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - Along the Atlantic Wall: Rommel's Last Battle
		Rommel’s fear, based on the information he gathered and defenses he inspected during his tour, was that Allied forces would quickly break through the weak coastal line and, within days, establish a solid beachhead through which supplies and men would pour unhindered.
		Rommel believed that the invasion would come at high tide, when the Allies would have the shortest distance to cover before attacking German positions; his underwater obstacles were built to fend off such an attack.
		Rommel’s picture of the coming Allied attack, in retrospect, was almost exactly in line with Allied plans, aside from his assumption that the invasion would come at high tide, and probably later in the summer.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/atlanticwall/efforts.aspx (2275 words)

	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)

	Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, The Desert Fox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rommel had a stellar service record during World War I. He was wounded in action during the invasion of France.
		Rommel was assigned command of Army Group B in France and he fought Allied forces in Normandy.
		Rommel was implicated in the failed assassination plot of Hitler and given the choice of trial or suicide.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/PeopleView.cfm?PID=369 (240 words)

	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 North African Campaign Of World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Field Marshal Rommel is famous for his blitzkrieg tactics in France and the at Gazala, whilst commanding the Afrika Corps where his tactical awareness and his natural flair in mobile warfare, turned possible defeat into a stunning victory.
		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.
	www.topedge.com /panels/ww2/na/rommel.html (601 words)

	Asko
		Rommel would always get excited when he heard the sirens, and he would sit in front of the T.V. with his head cocked over like the RCA Victor dog.
		As successful as Rommel was at catching bad guys, he was just at home in the classrooms at elementary schools playing tennis ball with the thousands of kids we met in a 6-year period.
		Rommel had a police motorcycle escort leading a long trail of K9 units from all over the bay area, patrol cars and civilian cars.
	www.camemorial.org /k9/rommel.htm (784 words)

	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.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/Panzer/rommel.htm (1072 words)

	Operation Mutilation: The Official Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rommel's report is heavily documented, and draws on the expertise of dozens of specialists consulted during the investigation, including: reporters, veterinarians, livestock association officials, paranormal investigators, geologists, chemists, forensic pathologists, pharmacologists, and county, state and federal officials from agriculture, wildlife and law enforcement agencies.
		Rommel assembled the analysis of these authorities, along with his own on-sight observations and interviews, to make the case that the explanation for the mutilations is considerably more down to earth than most mute theorists would have it.
		Rommel states in his report that he was "well aware of the controversial nature of the subject" when he launched his mute investigation.
	www.parascope.com /articles/0597/mute2.htm (1184 words)

	Erwin Rommel
		Rommel commanded an armored division during the German invasion of France.
		Rommel was defeated by British forces under the command of Montgomery at the decisive battle of El Alamein.
		While convalescing from injures sustained in an air attack, Rommel gave his tacit support for a plot to assassinate Hitler, which failed.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/Rommel.html (162 words)

	The Trail of the Desert Fox -- Erwin Rommel Revised
		Rommel's acquisition of the Blue Max put him a cut above most of his fellow officers in the interwar years, particularly since Rommel, unlike a lot of his contemporaries, had never gone through the German General Staff It is very important to know this, because it has a bearing on his last days.
		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)

	Rommel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is rather extraordinary that Rommel, unlike so many other students who have the same kind of disability as his, does not have any communication problems.
		Despite precautions and the good climate in the San Diego, California, area, Rommel has been hospitalized for pneumonia at least twice a year since he was a year old.
		The coding, emergency hospitalization, subsequent hospitalization for pneumonia a few weeks later, and Rommel’s dramatic loss of 10 pounds (to a weight of 44 pounds, 9 ounces) led his physicians, his parents, and Rommel himself to agree to the surgery to implant a tube so he can get his nutrition.
	paws.wcu.edu /westling/publications/Cases/Case12Rommel.htm (600 words)

	American Experience \| D-Day \| People & Events
		At the start of World War II, Rommel was largely responsible for Adolf Hitler's personal safety as he sought to expand his Nazi empire.
		In January 1944, Rommel was made commander in chief of all German armies from the Netherlands to the Loire River.
		Rommel, a recent critic of Hitler's leadership, was implicated in the plot.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/dday/peopleevents/p_rommel.html (212 words)

	Amazon.com: The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense of Fortress Europe: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mitcham describes Rommel's impact on strengthening German defenses in anticipation of the Allied invasion and the affect of his absence from France during the invasion.
		Mitcham describes Rommel's impact on strengthening German defenses in anticipation of the Allied invasion and the effect of his absence from France during the invasion.
		In explaining Rommel's role in the Hitler assassination attempt, Mitcham distances Rommel from direct involvement, painting him as politically naive and motivated to prevent a Russian overrun of Germany by "arresting" Hitler and seeing to a political restructuring of the Reich through a negotiated, Allied truce.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275954846?v=glance (1208 words)

	Search Results for Rommel - Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1944 Rommel was entrusted with the defense of France's Channel coast against a possible Allied invasion.
		In the Western Desert, a major offensive against Rommel's front was undertaken on Nov. 18, 1941, by the British 8th Army, commanded by Cunningham under the command in chief of Wavell's successor in...
		Rommel's father was a teacher, as his grandfather had been, and his mother was the daughter of a senior official.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Rommel&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (351 words)

	Erwin Rommel -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		in full Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, byname the Desert Fox, German der Wüstenfuchs German field marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Korps in 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.
		In January 1942 the German general Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps started a new drive to seize the Suez Canal.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9083860 (685 words)

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