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Erwin Rommel must be one of the most respected Germans of the WW2 era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a German field marshal of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies.
Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le Mérite for his exploits on the Italian Front. In World War II, he further distinguished himself as the commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the 1940 invasion of France. His leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign established him as one of the most able commanders of the war, and earned him the appellation of the Desert Fox. He is regarded as one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare in the conflict. He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion of Normandy. His assignments never took him to the Eastern Front.
Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrika Korps was never accused of war crimes, and soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Orders to kill Jewish soldiers, civilians and captured commandos were ignored. Late in the war, Rommel was linked to the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Because Rommel was a national hero, Hitler desired to eliminate him quietly. He forced Rommel to commit suicide with a cyanide pill, in return for assurances that Rommel's family would not be persecuted following his death. He was given a state funeral, and it was announced that Rommel had succumbed to his injuries from an earlier strafing of his staff car in Normandy.
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15 November....that's also my birthday.
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Overrated in my opinion.
I value Peiper, Model, Helmuth Von Pannwitz more.
If is it true that he participated in a treason, for me he is traitor and nothing more.
This is the true hero.
Let us leave modern men to their ‘truths’ and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.
- Julius Evola "Handbook of traditional living"
Cyanide capsule? Deserved to be tortured to death - for days, maybe weeks. Just a traitor, nothing more.
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A good German general, without ideological prejudice and not compromised with Nazis. The battle of El Agheila is his masterpiece.
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Yes, the man who was true National Socialist to the core.
"My men are the products of total war, grown up in the streets of scattered towns without any education. The only thing they knew was to handle weapons for the Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or die: right or wrong – my country. When seeing today the defendants in the dock, don't believe them to be the old Kampfgruppe Peiper. All of my old friends and comrades have gone before. The real outfit is waiting for me in Valhalla."
And man who had the guts to kill scum in Malmedy who later killed kids and elders in Dresden.
Let us leave modern men to their ‘truths’ and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.
- Julius Evola "Handbook of traditional living"
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As a sidenote, his son Manfred Rommel has become a very successful and loved mayor of the town Stuttgart for 22 (!!!) years, from 1974 to 1996.
He died in November 2013.
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