"by British Commonwealth forces in Operation Compass. His efforts in the Western Desert Campaign earned Rommel the nickname the ""Desert Fox"" from British journalists. Allied troops in Africa were commanded by General Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief Middle East Command. Rommel and his troops were technically subordinate to Italian commander-in-chief General Italo Gariboldi. Disagreeing with the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)'s orders to assume a defensive posture along the front line at Sirte, Rommel resorted to subterfuge and insubordination to take the war to the British. According to Remy, the General Staff tried to slow him down, but Hitler encouraged him to advance—an"
"Rommel myth The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians in reference to common depictions of German field marshal Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. According to these historians, who take a critical view of Rommel, such depictions are not accurate. The myth was created, with Rommel's participation, as a component of Nazi propaganda to praise the Wehrmacht and instill optimism in the German public. Starting in 1941, it was picked up and"
"victim of the regime as well. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Rommel myth The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians in reference to common depictions of German field marshal Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler. According to these historians, who take a critical view of Rommel, such depictions are not accurate. The myth was created, with Rommel's participation, as a component of Nazi propaganda to praise the Wehrmacht and instill optimism"
"reputation, though, has lived on, and still sets the standard for a style of daring, charismatic leadership to which most officers aspire."" During the recent desert wars, Rommel's military theories and experiences attracted great interest from policy makers and military instructors. Chinese military leader Sun Li-jen had the laudatory nickname ""Rommel of the East"". The Bundeswehr and Germany's NATO partners recognize Rommel as the modern knight of the Bundeswehr, a highly successful operator of military arts and an apolitical, chivalrous soldier (with several leaders of the Bundeswehr like , Hartmut Bagger and declaring him as their personal role model). This"
"the United States on one side and the new Federal Republic of Germany on the other. Several of Rommel's former subordinates, notably his chief of staff Hans Speidel, played key roles in German rearmament and integration into NATO in the postwar era. The German Army's largest military base, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf, is named in his honour. Rommel was born on 15 November 1891 in Southern Germany at Heidenheim, from Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, then part of the German Empire. He was the third of five children of Erwin Rommel Senior (1860–1913), a teacher and school"
"Zahl der Titel will nicht enden. Am Grabstein stehet: bitte wenden!"" which translates as: ""The number of honours seems to be endless. The inscription on my gravestone will read: Please turn over!"" Manfred Rommel Manfred Rommel (24 December 1928 – 7 November 2013) was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union, who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. Rommel's policies were described as tolerant and liberal, and he was one of the most popular municipal politicians in Germany. He was the recipient of numerous foreign honours. He was the only son of Field Marshal Erwin"
"formally promoted. In the German army, it was not unusual for a wartime officer to hold a lower rank than his duties implied; German officers were promoted according to a schedule and not by battlefield promotion. For instance, Erwin Rommel commanded an infantry battalion as a captain in 1917 and 1918. It was also the custom for a son not to hold a higher rank than his father, and Richthofen's father was a reserve major. Richthofen sustained a serious head wound on 6 July 1917, during combat near Wervicq against a formation of F.E.2d two seat fighters of No. 20"
"crampons, エーデルワイス (""ēderuwaisu"") for Edelweiß, リュックサック (""ryukkusakku"") from German ""Rucksack"" for backpack and probably also シュラフ (""shurafu"") from German ""Schlafsack"" for sleeping bag. Also, the main Japanese mountain chain is called Japanese Alps. During the Second World War, in Japanese weekly newsreels the military victories of the German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel in Africa were frequently celebrated, thus establishing ""rommel"" as the Japanese term for victory or success. Even today, Japanese football mascots are called with this word. Since the medical education initially was influenced by its German teachers, many German medical terms became part of the Japanese language. These include"
"Medieval Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard was nicknamed """"Robert the Fox"""" as well as ""the Resourceful"", ""the Cunning"", ""the Wily"" - underlining the identification of such qualities with foxes. During World War II, the German commander in North Africa, Erwin Rommel, was grudgingly nicknamed the ""Desert Fox"" by his British adversaries, as a tribute to his cunning and skill in operational art. The words ""fox"" and ""foxy"" have become slang in English-speaking societies for an individual (most often female) with sex appeal. The word ""vixen"", which is normally the common name for a female fox, is also used to describe an"
"largest base, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf, is named in his honour; at the dedication in 1961 his widow Lucie and son Manfred Rommel were guests of honour. The Rommel Barracks, Dornstadt, was also named for him in 1965. A third base named for him, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Osterode, closed in 2004. A German Navy Lütjens-class destroyer, ""Rommel"", was named for him in 1969 and christened by his widow; the ship was decommissioned in 1998. Numerous streets in Germany, especially in Rommel's home state of Baden-Württemberg, are named in his honor, including the street near where his"
"Infantry Attacks Infantry Attacks (German: Infanterie greift an) is a classic book on military tactics written by Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. At the time of the book's writing in the mid-1930s, Rommel's rank was lieutenant colonel. Rommel had planned to write a successor called ""Panzer greift an"" (in English: ""Tanks Attack"") about tank warfare, and gathered much material during the North Africa Campaign. However, he was forced to commit suicide before completing this work. Rommel describes his ""Stoßtruppen"" (shock troops) tactics, which used speed, deception, and deep penetration into enemy territory to surprise and overwhelm."
"in Bagotville, Quebec. He flew Spitfires over Europe, destroying or damaging 153 enemy vehicles (mostly trains), and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (with bar). In 1944, he began his tour of duty with the Canadian 412 Squadron. On D-Day he flew three patrols off the coast of France. On July 17, 1944, he flew from the Allied air base at Beny-sur-Mer in Normandy and strafed an unknown black car; he later learned that one of the passengers was German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was seriously injured in the attack. This is disputed as an Australian and RAF (Chris"
"near Stuttgart, where Manfred Rommel, son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, was a government officer who later became the city's mayor and the two met for the first time. The sons of the two former adversaries entered a much publicized friendship, which continued until the general's death in 2004. The men shared the same birthday, December 24. General Patton's military awards include: In the years after his 1980 retirement, Patton turned an estate owned by his father located north of Boston into the Green Meadows Farm, where he named the fields after Vietnam soldiers who died under his command. During"
"removed. Barr has said that she was inspired to create the character while working in the file office of the University of Washington, which was being painted a ""horrible half-pink, half-tan color."" Searching for a color name, she stumbled upon ""desert peach"", and was immediately inspired by the pun upon ""The Desert Fox,"" the name given to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during World War II . According to his biographers, Erwin Rommel had a youngest brother, named Manfred, who died in infancy—Barr said she only developed a personality who the universe had prematurely discarded. The Desert Peach commanded the 469th"
"German headquarters in Mantes. They reached US forces and safety on 12 August. Operation Gaff During World War II, Operation Gaff was the parachuting of a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos into German-occupied France on Tuesday 25 July 1944, with the aim of killing or kidnapping German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. From March 1943, Allied Intelligence had been undertaking research on the whereabouts, bases and travel arrangements of Field Marshal Rommel. Part of the research asked the question of how feasible it would be to kill Rommel. After D-Day, the Allies were meeting fierce resistance, marshalled by Rommel,"
"(almost unanimously, as revealed by an interdepartmental opinion poll) to keep the name. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces Hans Peter Bartels (SPD) supports the keeping of the name and the tradition associated with Rommel, but notes that the reasons should not be his initial successes in Africa, or that the former adversary armies have continued to worship him until this day. Bartels adds that Rommel, who probably supported the Resistance, is a borderline case regarding which historians find it hard to ascertain, and German history is full of such ambiguities. In early 2017, German Federal Ministry of Defence,"
"magazine ""Der Spiegel"" describes the myth as ""Gentleman warrior, military genius"". According to Watson, the most dominant element in the Rommel myth is Rommel the Superior Soldier, the second being Rommel the Common Man, and the last one Rommel the Martyr. Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck, writing in 1943, also takes note of the image of the general who fought with common soldiers, with an indelible youthfulness and apparent invulnerability. Historian Sandra Mass considers the Rommel myth a hero cult, a synthesis of old and new hero cults and traditions culled primarily from Germany's largely imaginary colonial past, in particular the proletarian"
"the Fox"" was the first expansion, released in Oct 2008. The title is a reference to German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was admirably known as the Desert Fox. This expansion introduces the North African Campaign along with the British Army and includes nine new desert map boards. Also, anti-tank guns were added and are represented by plastic miniatures of the German 88mm Flak gun, as well as the British Ordnance QF 6-Pounder and American M1 57mm anti-tank guns, all with associated rules to integrate them into the broader TOI rule set. Other new pieces for all three countries were"
"a photo taken with Italian General Italo Gariboldi welcoming Erwin Rommel and Johannes Streich on February 12, 1941. Erwin Rommel was selected by Adolf Hitler to lead the newly formed Afrika Korps divisions in the fight against British forces in North Africa. Two days later, his troops arrived in Tripoli. Several days later, his troops staged a parade in the 'Suq-Al-Khubsa' plaza, now known as Martyrs square where he multiplied the number of his forces by ordering his tanks and infantry to circle the square multiple times, to boost morale and falsify numbers to any British spies. Erwin Rommel with"
"in preparation for the invasion of France and the Low Countries. In February 1940, ""Generalmajor"" Erwin Rommel arrived to take command of the division. Mickl remained in charge of the 42nd ""Panzerjäger"" Battalion during the invasion. He got along well with Rommel, and his battalion fought well but suffered serious casualties during the Battle of Arras on 21 May while trying to stop the heavily armoured tanks of the British 1st Army Tank Brigade with its 37 mm anti-tank guns. His soldiers derided their guns as ""Panzeranklopfgerät"" (tank-door knocker), due to their failure to penetrate the British Matilda I and"
"would be no fighting in that area (although newcomers did not always accept this ""modus vivendi""). Throughout the series, Barr focused on many characters; the following list includes some of the most prominent. The Desert Peach The Desert Peach is a comic book created by Donna Barr, chronicling the adventures of the eponymous protagonist, Erwin ""The Desert Fox"" Rommel's fictitious homosexual younger brother, Oberst Manfred Pfirsich Marie Rommel (1900–1990), nicknamed the ""Desert Peach"". Early issues of the comic focused on the Peach's command of a misfit unit of the Afrika Korps from 1940 to 1943; subsequent issues have explored the"
"Operation Gaff During World War II, Operation Gaff was the parachuting of a six-man patrol of Special Air Service commandos into German-occupied France on Tuesday 25 July 1944, with the aim of killing or kidnapping German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. From March 1943, Allied Intelligence had been undertaking research on the whereabouts, bases and travel arrangements of Field Marshal Rommel. Part of the research asked the question of how feasible it would be to kill Rommel. After D-Day, the Allies were meeting fierce resistance, marshalled by Rommel, with Hitler's orders to stand firm at all costs. With losses mounting, Field"
"Manfred Rommel Manfred Rommel (24 December 1928 – 7 November 2013) was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union, who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. Rommel's policies were described as tolerant and liberal, and he was one of the most popular municipal politicians in Germany. He was the recipient of numerous foreign honours. He was the only son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his wife Lucia Maria Mollin (1894–1971), and contributed to the establishment of museums in his father's honour. He was also known for his friendship with George Patton IV and David"
"the Germans, remained in the army and was promoted to lieutenant in March. He also volunteered to join the Relief Force being sent to support the British Garrison at Archangel. He was posted to the 45th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and saw some action on the River Dvina until its withdrawal when the White Russian Army was defeated elsewhere. It was his recounting of many anecdotes about the Bolsheviks that gave rise to his nickname of ""Bolo"". He was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex in October 1919. Serving with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), he found his"
"the Axis positions. Engineers using hand tools were supplemented by Scorpion tanks equipped with rotating flails to explode anti-vehicle mines. The Scorpions did not work well and manual methods of clearing had to be employed, which would have been more difficult, had the minefields not been sown with more anti-personnel mines. An estimated 3 million mines were laid before the battle, most of which remain and are becoming more unstable as the years pass and injuring people who use the area. Devil's gardens The Devil's gardens was the name given by Erwin Rommel, commander of the German ""Afrika Korps"" during"
"He became a symbol that was used to reinforce the German public's faith in an ultimate Axis victory. In the wake of the British victory at Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942, and other military reverses, the Propaganda Ministry directed the media to emphasise Rommel's invincibility. The charade was maintained until the spring of 1943, even as the German situation in Africa became increasingly precarious. In May 1943, to ensure that the inevitable defeat in Africa would not be associated with Rommel's name, Goebbels had the Supreme High Command announce that Rommel was on a two-month leave for"
"moved to Untertürkheim and adopted the name Daimler AG. On 1 October 1920, Erwin Rommel was commissioned as a captain and assigned command of the 13th Infantry Regiment based in Stuttgart. In his nine years at this post, his regiment was involved in the quelling of civil disturbances across Germany. Stuttgart endured 53 air raids over the course of the Allied strategic bombing during World War II, the first of which occurred on 25 August 1940 and destroyed 17 buildings. When the French army entered Stuttgart in 1945, they are alleged to have been responsible for the rapes around 3,000"
"German general that he should provide him the credit he was due, offering ""You might care to insert a remark that I emphasise the use of armoured forces for long-range operations against the opposing Army's communications, and also the proposed type of armoured division combining Panzer and Panzer-infantry units – and that these points particularly impressed you."" Liddell Hart was instrumental in the creation of the ""Rommel myth"", a view that the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of the Third Reich due to his (now disputed) participation in the 20 July plot"
"of war and the personalities of American general George Patton and the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In real life the two were never involved together in a major confrontation, as Rommel was wounded in 1944 and later forced to commit suicide (due to his association with the anti-Hitler conspirators of the July 20 plot), before Patton had command in large-scale land operations. The game's AI, however, worked to be true to the strategies of each of the two generals. ""Patton vs. Rommel"" is set in and around the Normandy beachhead shortly after the D-Day invasion of June, 1944. American,"
"""Good Germans"" are peace-loving democrats and real gentlemen. ""Ergo"", since Rommel was a clean fighter, he must have been anti-Nazi, and men like him would make good allies of democracy against the Russians. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper commented that ""the danger now is not that 'our friend Rommel' is becoming not a magician or a bogy-man, but too much of a hero"". He pointed out Rommel's early proximity to Hitler and described Rommel as representative of the Wehrmacht officer corps' support for ""Hitler's politics and Hitler's war"". The 1951 movie """", based on Young's biography, portrayed Rommel sympathetically, as a"
"Georg Bruchmüller Georg Bruchmüller (11 December 1863 – 26 January 1948), nicknamed ""Durchbruchmüller"", was a German artillery officer who greatly influenced the development of modern artillery tactics. His nickname ""Durchbruchmüller"" is a combination of the German word ""Durchbruch"" (breakthrough) with his name. Bruchmüller was born in Berlin into a middle-class family. He studied physics at Berlin University; when he left in 1883 he became a three-year volunteer in the Imperial Army. Two years later, he was commissioned into the (foot artillery), the branch of the German army armed with heavier guns, howitzers and mortars, designed principally for siege warfare, which"
"Rommel (film) Rommel is a 2012 German television film first shown on Das Erste. It is a dramatisation of the last days of German general Erwin Rommel. This made-for-TV-movie starts on the last day (October 10, 1944) of Rommel's life with a talk between him and generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel. In this talk the generals present incriminating material. They say Rommel has the choice between suicide and a trial before the Volksgerichtshof. After this scene the last months of his life from March 1944 are presented chronologically. At this time Rommel is responsible for the Atlantikwall built to"
"prevent an invasion by the allied forces. Rommel (film) Rommel is a 2012 German television film first shown on Das Erste. It is a dramatisation of the last days of German general Erwin Rommel. This made-for-TV-movie starts on the last day (October 10, 1944) of Rommel's life with a talk between him and generals Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel. In this talk the generals present incriminating material. They say Rommel has the choice between suicide and a trial before the Volksgerichtshof. After this scene the last months of his life from March 1944 are presented chronologically. At this time Rommel"