bocconom How ironic that a German officer was played by a British officer because Hitler based everything on the race and considered the British descendants of the German race going back to Charlemagne
@@weirdwalrus5757 Well not exactly. He knew that by late 1944 there was no hope for Germany to ever recover. I think that what he believed was more about maintaining his image as the Führer instead of just declaring to his people that all hope for turning the war effort was in fact lost.
Richie Peterson I would have to agree with you, but I think it would be a later date, say after the Battle of the Penis was lost (around Jan. - Feb. 1945)
86sith 1. Stalin was also an anti-semite 2. Not every Jewish person is a communist 3. A lot of Jewish people were and are against communism, so maybe you shouldn't target them if you want to defeat communism.
My father was a Soldier in the 8th Army and always admired Rommel because he was a Commander who didn't sacrifice his men unnecessary. So was respected by his own Men and his opponents also.
Field Marshal Rommel was an amazing commander! He had a great deal of experience from the First World War. Have you read his memoirs? He could read a military situation almost as though he was clairvoyant, and he did think of his troops first. Discovering that he had been forced to commit suicide to protect his family brought more admiration for him and more loathing for Hitler. I still think of FM Erwin Rommel as a great General and hero although I wish he'd been on the side of the Allies.
Nick Cara Oh I am sorry. So Rommel WAS NOT A NAZI. He DID NOT fly back to Germany after LOSING THE BATTLE OF ALAMEIN. He DID NOT leave all his men in N Africa abandoning them for his own safety. He was NOT put in charge of the Atlantic Wall which collapsed in less than 24 hrs when the Allies invaded on D-Day. He did not FULLY SUPPORT the attempted assassination of Hitler that would have ended the war and saved millions of lives. He took the cowards way out and committed suicide, there is NO EVIDENCE that he did that to save his family. So please point out WHERE I AM WRONG. Where are the ERRORS OF FACT IN MY COMMENTS. Am I ANGRY? YES I AM, I am sick of this SYCOPHANTIC LOVE OF ROMMEL, HE WAS A NAZI and there were NO GOOD NAZIS, EVEN ROMMEL. He may have been a good General, BUT HE LOST, BRILLIANT GENERALS WIN BATTLES NOT LOSE WARS. Oh yes he had problems with supplies because the British were sinking his supply ships, OH DEAR WHAT A SHAME, THATS WAR. If this qualifies me as being EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN then so be it, in case you may have forgotten WAR AND THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IS HIGHLY EMOTIONAL. Rommel was a NAZI, he LOST CRUCIAL BATTLES, HE FAILED MISERABLY AS THE COMMANDER O THE ATLANTIC WALL. HE WAS A MISERABLE FAILURE. Perhaps you can list his VICTORIES that led to Hitler winning WWII. I look forward to your comments. Oh and which particular political agenda am I pushing.
@@alexp.2897 you think every German solider in ww2 deserved to be executed? That’s a horrific thing to say, most were just men fighting for their country. Executing POWs is one of the things that made the SS so reviled yet you want to do the same thing.
@@steveokula5762 Trump hasn't tried to repeal the 2nd Amendment. The first thing that Hitler did was to take those rights/ freedoms away from the German people. When your knowledge of history is up to date, contact me again. Only then, we can have a intellectual discussion.
+MetrazolElectricity It did actually, June 17th,1944, at Hitlers' Western Front HQ in France, and right after Rommel left in disgust, one of Hitler's V-1 buzz bombs that was just launched nearby aimed at hitting London malfunctioned and almost hit Hitler's bunker with him in it.
+Dragan Banic Read the book too if you get the chance by the author Brigadier Desmond Young, one of Rommel's former British P.O.W's captured in North Africa, who actually greatly admired the man and interviewed his family, colleagues, Veterans, and surviving friends after the war.His character appears in the beginning of the movie and his words are narrated by actor Michael Rennie (Klaatu from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" also 1951).
Lee Christy And of course Mason reprised Rommel in the film 'the Desert Rats' in a fantastic scene with a young Richard Burton. Shades of 'Heat' with the famous De Niro/Pacino scene.
The look on rommel's face right at the end of the scene is telling. He finally realized he was dealing with a completely insane man. That's why he went in with the plot to kill hitler... I saw this movie. Very good movie.
Rommel more than anything hated Hitler's obsession with murdering Civilian populations. He was a soldier who found it dishonorable to intentionally kill unarmed Civilians who were incapable of fighting back.
Rommel was a rather close friend of Hitler in personal terms but abhored and didn't follow the Nazi ideals when he met the Senegalis, Jews and native troops the British had since he respected them. Actually, I think he managed to get one group to change sides and become a volunteer group in the army mainly because he respected them.
@@floydfarless8448 He was aware and was also a potential supporter and leading figure once Hitler was disposed of. He didn't directly get involved in the bombing itself but knowing about it was enough to have his "Family and you execution or suicide pill" schtick with Hitler to happen
Alec Guinness was excellent as Hitler in "The Last 10 Days of Hitler" from 1973. Not saying he was better than Ganz, but it is a remarkable performance.
German General F W von Mellenthin was a member of Rommel's staff. When asked after the war about James Mason's portrayl, Mellenthin commented "*Entirely* too polite!"
48 years old Englishman , never have, and never will , give a flying feck, about that spoit overpriced foreign city-state on the Thames, HELL even GLASGOW ,(and its people) is nicer than London I think the French say:- "France is Blessed by God , But cursed by Paris" sum's up the relationship between the UK and London to me
It's always priceless to read such comments that lament London is a multi ethnic city in the present day. Funny stuff. How did you envision British belligerence across nearly all countries would conclude? It's almost as priceless as 'The Founding Fathers' nonsensical white supremacist slave owning philosophy. I'm sure they too didn't envision Washington, Baltimore Philadelphia and mostly all areas where chattel slavery was employed against Africans would today be predominately African American. Good times eh. Funny how things work out.
@Sabrina Dugan is the secret recording of his voice, in a meeting with finnish field marshal Mannerheim, he comes off as very calm and composed, even as they speak of how much both of them had underestimated the soviet industrial capabilities and red army ability to fight. Ita dangerous to try to understand how Hitler actually reacted during the more heated meetings with his staff because, as much aa we have reliable of evidence of outbursts, we also have lots of unreliable reports of people that were following the agenda of portraying hitler as a madman/idiot and sole guilty for Germany's defeat and the horrorsnof ww2
If you actually read through history of Hitler’s meetings and conferences with his generals, his characterization here is not at all far from the truth, especially from 1944 on.
Self serving exaggerated trash - History was NOt written by the victors there as much as the survivors, who were covering up their own mistakes, hiding their own war crimes, and blaming ALL on a single "madman" to serve the cold war theories the west needed as they sought to use ex-nazi's and Germany in the cold war effort.
Hitler did rant at his generals He dismissed guderian because he disagreed He had fegerlein shot Kept rommel in limbo for months Dismissed then recalled runstedt Kleist dismissed Hoth dismissed Witzleben executed Etc etc Everyone who disagreed was dealt with
It must be understood that the OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) was compromised before The National Socialist government was established by the German citizens. Most of the German High Command were of the old aristocracy and were not too warm to the ideals of NS view of life , and there was established, a network of traitors that undermined every theater of operations where victory was not swift and complete.
@@willleon9165 "National Socialist". A clever term used by Hitler to attract socialists from the German communist party. Better known by the name "Nazi". Not much socialist about a fascist, as they're on opposite sides of the political spectrum. "National Socialist" has about as much truth to it as North Korea calling itself the "People's Democratic Republic of Korea".
Yes James Mason already played 20.000 leagues Captain Nemo so brillant. Britain had and has still the greatest actors in the world! And I'm not British. I'm German.
Luther Adler is the actor. A few years later, he was in a Twilight Zone episode where he was granted 3 wishes. One of his wishes was to be a leader of a contemporary country that couldn’t be voted out of office, so the devil made him Hitler😂
General Halder who protested against Hitler because he divided the army in front of Stalingrad into two groups and sent one to the Caucasus.Or his successor General Zeitzler warned Hitler, Stalingrad could be encircled.Hilter laughed are you scared?
How ironic the Actor Luther Adler who's playing Hitler also played Hitler at the end of a Twilight Zone episode called "The Man in the Bottle" one of my favorites
I feel like this rant is one that Hitler himself probably went on. Based on what I’ve read about Hitler, this actor seems to’ve captured his personality pretty well.
Completely a joke. All these actors who try to imitate Hitler are a joke when it comes to stress, I can't imagine Hitler, an introverted man shouting like that
Sabrina Dugan That was only at his rallies and speeches. There’s a recorded audio of him speaking with Finnish General Manneheim, in a totally normal hushed voice.
The V2 rocket was the Wunderwaffe Hitler had in mind. Set it off on the North West Coast of Germany, wait an hour, it will hit London. The RAF intercepted its radio signal so it would hit Croydon or Bromley rather than Central London and thousands died in the last months of the war.
Well that would make sense since English originated in England, but more and more people I hear speaking English as a second language have an American inflection.
BoB the English as an ethno-cultural group actually originated from the tribes that arose in northern Germany and subsequently migrated to what is now England
@@BoB-fg6eg of course, though some of these tribes came from parts of the modern Netherlands instead, which is why Dutch is so closely related to English
@@BoB-fg6eg No, English evolved in England as a mixture of the Anglo-Saxon and French/Norman languages. Although we call English a 'Germanic language', in fact about 60% of its words are of Romance/Latin origin, and the other 40% German.
My father was in North Africa with Patton 3rd Armored division! They saw a German general in his staff car get blown up and thought it was Rommel but was wrong! What amazing stories he had from Omaha beach to the Battle of the Bulge winter where he froze his feet! Amazing!
3rd Armored Division didn't serve in North Africa. 1st and 2nd Armored served in Africa. 2nd was later moved to England for the D-Day invasion. 3rd Armored was already in England training. 2nd and 3rd Armored were "Heavy" division that had not been reconfigured to the new 1943 TO & E (standards). They were equipped with more than twice the number of tanks than the other armored divisions.
@@tulsaguy9963 Patton commanded 2nd Armored then II Corps in North Africa. Promoted and commanded 7th Army in Sicily, but the famous slapping incidents there cost him his command. Almost sent home, he was recalled to England at Eisenhower's orders. Later, he was given command of 3rd Army and led the breakout in France.
Yes i see that too, a very fine bit of acting by the great man. I got a chill up my spine just from the expression change - not overdone at all, just perfect. His eyes spoke more dialog in the last few seconds of this clip than in all the rest of it. Oh for the days when great actors were not great egos first.
rommel realized Hitler was off his rocker when he refused to allow the Afrika Korps to retreat from el Alamein (forgive my spelling)...informed that Hitler said 'hold at all costs' Rommel was supposed to reply, 'He must be crazy.' I think that opened his eyes.
I can remember that the late James Mason and Richard Burton were in the movie The Desert Fox and I have got George Peppard Michael York and John Mills in The Night Of The Fox as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
@@brit1066 he choose to kill himself so he can save his family and staff. He is not a coward he is always in front lines for fuck sake. He is not Nazi, He was a german general coincidentally has a fascist regime.
@@bfc3057 Okay. Maybe true, okay. But he never commited war crimes. Never. He got orders of that. But he ignored them all. Because of that: He had honor and he was able to act like this. The nazis made him to their own hero. and he knew that. So he could not fall. But in the end, the nazis found another way to bring him down....
All German soldiers were killing civilians or at the very least turned a blind eye to such killings .All German civilians loved Hitler esrky in the war while the German Army was winning battles. This is just human nature and not difficult to understand.
This video is a perfect example why you must never debate or argue with a crazy person. No matter what you say you will not be understood and they will spin your words against you!
that is not what earned him admiration - What earned him admiration was he was fucking brilliant. He is the Father of mechanized Infantry, His strategy, Tactics, and exploits were required reading at the war College, He was never wrong about his assessments, nor his insight. He wanted to take the island of Malta instead of trying to blockade it into submission, Malta played a large role is the extraction of British Soldiers from Africa, and also trapping Rommel's forces in Africa. He also cracked the french resistance codes and knew Normandy was where the allies were landing, and when they were landing. Rommel allegedly was part of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944. Whether he was or not is debatable, what was not debatable is that Hitler thought he was involved, which resulted in Rommel Taking his own life in the Honorable Fashion, (If he did not, his family would have been arrested as well).
@@robertperrotto870 Well, the father of the mechanised armoured german divisions really was Heinz Guderian, in many facts a man as brillians as Rommel, though even less polite to Hitler than Rommel, which made him never reach the rank of The FIeld Marshall. The two were similar in many aspects including strategy, yet they disagreed on how the allied invasion should be handled (and here I think Rommel was spot on). Rommel even wanted Guderian (dismissed at that time) to replace him in Africa when he fell ill, but Hitler refused.
rommel was admired, not only because he was a brilliant tactician, but because he was an honourable soldier in the truest sense. he was known for treating enemy POWs humanely. he was also well respected by the troops under him because he wouldnt throw their lives away. admittedly, according my own research, rommel was far less polite than portrayed in this movie.
@@patricktraynor7628 The clip portrays Hitler living in a fantasy world. Author Barbara Tuchman defined "folly" as the "pursuit of policy contrary to self interest". Hitler refused to bomb Portsmouth or Southampton, which would have harmed the Allied resupply effort, and kept bombing London instead. Why? Instead of pursuing a militarily sound policy at the advice of his best general, he ranted about his wonder weapons that would change the course of the war. Fantasy and folly.
Rommel's plan to move the panzer reserves closer to Normandy before D-Day was overruled by Hitler. When it was finally approved, allied air dominance made daytime travel on roads impossible for German armor reinforcements. While this was certainly frustrating for Rommel, he recognized after the fact that he could not have repelled the invasion either way. The scope of the allied invasion was far beyond anything the Germans could have stopped on the beach.
Those that were on the front lines like Rommel and other soldiers could see and understand that they were being overwhelmed and losing the war. Those that were commanding from Berlin and believed that the enemy wouldn't do this or that, or that a new weapon would turn things around wouldn't realize it until it was too late.
Hitler once called Rommel his favorite general. He brought so many victories for Germany in North Africa, he was the second most popular man in the country......second only to the Fuehrer of course. Rommel liked and admired Hitler initially. But he eventually saw the true face of the man.
So many victories.such a great general. BULLSHIT, the ONLY VICTORY THAT MATTERS US THE LAST ONE. Rommel got his ASSKICKED by Monty. Why do you admire a LOSER, when Monty thrashed him and kicked him out of N Africa.Rommel was a LOSER and he DESERTED HIS MEN AND RAN BACK TO GERMANY.
@@brit1066 I didn't say he was a great general. But he did initially give Hitler and the German people many victories in North Africa. He was so foxy in victories that he earned the admiration of friend and foe alike. His soldiers certainly revered him. By the beginning of 1942 it looked as though Rommel and his Afrika Korps would conquer all of North Africa and head for the oil wells of the Middle East. Many British people including those in the government thought the war was lost because of Rommel's victories and also because of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese as well Hong Kong and the invasion of Burma. All this despite America's entry into the war. The problem with the North African campaign is because the Nazi Empire over extended itself in Europe, the Atlantic and the Russian front and that was his primary concern. Hitler wanted to conquer all of Russia to make it Germany's Lebensraum or living space. North Africa really didn't mean much to him; he only fought the British there out of a personal favor to Mussolini whose armies got clobbered by the British 8th Army when he invaded Egypt in 1940 and in Feb. 1941 Hitler sent the Afrika Korps with Rommel as it's leader to come to Mussolini's rescue and defeat the British. Rommel wished and Mussolini begged Hitler to make peace with Russia and concentrate all efforts on the North African front. Mussolini longed for an African empire. As for being an admirer of Rommel, I wouldn't necessarily call myself an admirer of him. But from what've I've learned he was a decent an honorable man devoted to his wife and son and spent as much time with them as he could given the strains of war. Rommel from what learned was not arrogant like most generals and he certainly no war criminal. He may have fought on the wrong side, but he was a good man. In stark contrast, Montgomery was a very arrogant and nasty individual contemptuous of everybody around him. He had a personal hatred for General Patton and didn't get along with Eisenhower, his superior too well. And his brainchild, Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland by Allied paratroopers in September 1944, was a disaster. Plus after the war, he had a controversial relationship with a teenage boy in Switzerland. Montgomery may have fought on the side of the good guys, but he was not a nice man. I betcha Rommel was more loved by Allied troops than Monty.
If Rommel got the armies he wanted that he couldn’t spare because of the eastern front he could’ve driven to the Middle East fast and secured a second front on Russia’s southern flank.
Anti Antifa Oh WOW you are one smart cookie. If Monty had had the army he wanted then ERWIN WOULD NEVER HAVE SET FOOT IN NORTH AFRICA. What a bloody STUPID REMARK.
Yeah, I don't like this Hitler either. You can tell the actor studied the archival footage of Hitler's speeches and took some cadence and body language from that and it doesn't fit what I imagine Hitler would act and sound like in private. Plus his voice is a completely different pitch and tone from what I'd expect. If you want to see a really decent casting job from around the same time period in movies then go watch The Fall of Berlin from 1950. It's a Soviet movie, but they really spared no expense and there's a lot of fun Soviet propaganda and historical tidbits that are subtly and not so subtly worked in. Pretty much every major historical figure in that movie is well cast.
He was austrian so northern italians sound similar, but in private he had a very deep voice and pleasant demeanor he was a successful politician after all.
This is pretty accurate. A lot of Nazi Generals, Advisors, and even SS officers would try their hardest to tell Hitler the faults in his decisions and orders but Hitler would hardly ever listen.
Also Hitler's 'deafness' to those advices came in 3 stages: Stage 1) 1939~1941 - They where winning left and right (in overall margins) so any criticism about the warfare was desmissed by the victories. Stage 2) 1941~1944 - The 'inner circle' (mostly Goering, Goebels and Himmler) told Hitler that everything would be fine, since he trusted them more than anyone else he followed those idealistic (although paranoid) scenarios. Stage 3) 1944~1945 - Hitler lost his mind, hearing about massive losses in warfare and industry day after day he started to move imaginary units left and right despite the warnings from the generals. He stopped hearing even his inner circle and went full regalia into his own downfall.
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 ??? The person replying is telling you that Germany wasn't developing a nuke or thinking of doing so hence the weapon in mind isn't a nuke
He's talking about the v1 flying bomb, which was first used just after d-day, when this scene takes place. that's why he talks about aiming it at London. He also says he has a second and third one in mind even more powerful, which was the v2 missile, idk what v3 would have been, maybe a nuke yeah. Its the concept of "wunderwaffen" that hitler thought could win the war, but they weren't generally nukes.
Look up "Operation Paperclip" - these are programs of the US to copy Nazi-Wonder Weapons and export their parts and the scientist to US., Most famous is Wernher von Braun - later Head of NASA. The germans were far ahead.
There's a small measure of justice that Hitler is here portrayed by that great light of the Yiddish American theatre, Luther Adler. Although I have to admit, it's not a very flattering portrait.
I would have gladly followed Rommel into battle. Even as an American. Besides Gudarian, he is by far the best German general to ever live. It was his strategies on desert warfare and the application of speed and heavy armor taking initiative that led to the extremely successful battle of 73 Easting during the Gulf War. One of the troop carriers even had a picture of Rommel inside it.
Good as a pure tanker, a lower-level tank commander. He excelled in relatively small-unit tactics in the desert. He failed as Area c commander against the invasion in France and was the wrong person for the job.
@@oldtoby9377 Not political at all. Sorry, but your orange messiah is a corrupt, stupid, and possibly unhinged person that a good portion of the country is willing to follow over a cliff, just like Hitler.
@@s.sestric9929 Golly, I did not even once mention that I support Trump in anyway shape or form, and yet you think I do just because I'm trying to get an irrelevant topic out of the way. Do you seriously think we all came and watch this clip merely as an excuse to rant about Trump? I'm sorry, sir/ma'am but I came here to applaud the outstanding performances by Mr. Mason and Mr. Adler, thank you very much.
@TC G Which made him an even Worse leader to squander all the gains made:(To start wars with Russia and America in the same time frames with Japan as an Allie was completely ignorant,the Japanese had already let Hitler extend German word and resources out for them and they didn't come thru so he did it again knowing they couldn't be fully trusted..then allies Germany with Italy who at that time still had a military whose armament was still at WW1 standards...Hitler rode on the shoulders of very Great Counsel and accomplished Military minds and a population that was suffering dearly from the Treaty of Versailles leaving them destitute,a Great Leader would not commit genocide but instead expell,rounding up homosexuals and mentally I'll and slaughtering them is Not the traits of a Great Leader...he played on the populations fears and used Deciet and Murder as his go to instead of working out solutions that left him NO way out ...Hitler was Not a Great Leader but he was intelligent in a very sick and twisted way and Very aware of how to play on people's fears and racial tensions,but at the end of it all all his "brilliant" plans came back on him and led him and Germany to Ruin:(
@@oilersridersbluejays What child? funny... cause the U.S Army had Better Equipment as a whole compared to the German Army, Hell U.S Army actually had Radios for their Squads, Better Rifles, Better anti-Armor Weapons,Better training, better Adaptability,WAY better Medical Care for its Troops, Better Food, hell was even better paid. I think you need to start reading history. the Majority of the German Army through the Entire war used Horses,
@@MetalGuru965 Its a good job the person you are talking about actually has crippling self doubt or he might have actually done things without needing to be loved for it first.
Truth be told, there is a slight overhype about Rommel, given that his initial successes at the North-African front came from material and numerical superiority and better aggressive tactics against and under-supplied enemy whose misguided orders was to simply hold ground and defend mindlessly. In fact, the "military genius" myth was created by british commanders to try to justify their failures and hide the fact that they had been mishandling the campaign after they thought they had beaten the italians at Libia
@@AndreLuis-gw5ox I mean, that could almost be said about any military commander. Every victory is as much thanks to the enemy making mistakes as to you making fewer. But Rommel's initiative, disobeying contrary orders from higher up in both instances, ensured Germany closed its encirclement of the French army in May 1940, and threw the British back from Tripoli in the beginning of the Afrika Corps campaign. He sometimes couldn't see the bigger picture (like cancelling the German/Italian plan to seize Malta, which would have been hugely beneficial to his supply lines later), but as a battlefield commander he was undoubtedly one of the better ones.
@@angelamagnus6615 Der Fuhrer promoted them to cut their political clout. Two field marshals like a Ludendorff or Hindenburg have a lot more political prestige for opposition than eight that owe their positions to you..
@@johnchambers2996 but they did get promotion out of merit. of course I disagree with Paulus promotion because he was trapped with Stalingrad and there was a political agenda behind it.
@@angelamagnus6615 Well, from what I have read, it was mostly a cynical political move to undercut the opposition power of the German General Staff. Politicians do it today with promotions in the alphabet soup of government bureaucracies.
This is made in 1951. Since the people who fought and experienced the war were still alive. This is probably one of the best accounts of an argument between Rommel and Hitler.
It's a little surreal to see a movie made so soon after the end of this war. Emotions still riding high about the whole conflict, and our entertainment was already exploring it. It's sorta like seeing World Trade Center with Nick Cage or that United 93 movie coming out five years after 9/11. Going to the movies and seeing something you lived through, so soon after it happened, when everything is still reeling from it. It's just a very weird thing to think about.
It was also fresh in the minds that the story of the July 20th were barely coming out and Rommel's suicide was not revealed until the Allies interviewed Rommel's family. And in the Trials of Nuremberg, it was Field Marshal Keitel who revealed that Rommel was forced to commit suicide and not died of injury.
By the time this movie came out the U.S. and U.K. were more worried about the Soviet Union and Communism than anything. A movie glorifying a German general who martyred himself wasn't all that shocking for 1951. Had it come out 10 years earlier then it would have been insanely controversial, somewhat like some of the pro-Soviet movies were around 1943-1945, despite them being an ally during that time they still weren't fully trusted and most people knew Stalin would be the next menace to deal with after Hitler was defeated.
James Mason who played Rommel was a superb actor.
James masons last movie was The Shooting Party. Worth a look!
Pretty good in Heaven Can Wait
@@bryanhead2670 I'll have to look into it. Thanks!
@@RobTheNotary Yes; fun movie.. That voice of his could make the worst of movies sound stellar.
bocconom How ironic that a German officer was played by a British officer because Hitler based everything on the race and considered the British descendants of the German race going back to Charlemagne
Interesting this is only 6 years after Hitler's death.
@@weirdwalrus5757 Well not exactly. He knew that by late 1944 there was no hope for Germany to ever recover. I think that what he believed was more about maintaining his image as the Führer instead of just declaring to his people that all hope for turning the war effort was in fact lost.
Richie Peterson
I would have to agree with you, but I think it would be a later date, say after the Battle of the Penis was lost (around Jan. - Feb. 1945)
86sith
1. Stalin was also an anti-semite
2. Not every Jewish person is a communist
3. A lot of Jewish people were and are against communism, so maybe you shouldn't target them if you want to defeat communism.
Imagine Hitler watching this film while living in South America.....
Hey John Doe. What German Revolution of 1918. There was No Revolution in Germany. They simply lost the War.
My father was a Soldier in the 8th Army and always admired Rommel because he was a Commander who didn't sacrifice his men unnecessary. So was respected by his own Men and his opponents also.
Field Marshal Rommel was an amazing commander! He had a great deal of experience from the First World War. Have you read his memoirs? He could read a military situation almost as though he was clairvoyant, and he did think of his troops first. Discovering that he had been forced to commit suicide to protect his family brought more admiration for him and more loathing for Hitler. I still think of FM Erwin Rommel as a great General and hero although I wish he'd been on the side of the Allies.
Elly Maschino Wrinn He was to Surrender to the Allies weeks after D-day for less of his men will suffer from Casualty. But he took his own life.
Blue Marshall yeah it was his own life or his families.
Science-is-Truth that sounds suspiciously like the sort of absolutist emotionally driven rhetoric from someone pushing a particular political agenda
Nick Cara Oh I am sorry.
So Rommel WAS NOT A NAZI.
He DID NOT fly back to Germany after LOSING THE BATTLE OF ALAMEIN.
He DID NOT leave all his men in N Africa abandoning them for his own safety.
He was NOT put in charge of the Atlantic Wall which collapsed in less than 24 hrs when the Allies invaded on D-Day.
He did not FULLY SUPPORT the attempted assassination of Hitler that would have ended the war and saved millions of lives.
He took the cowards way out and committed suicide, there is NO EVIDENCE that he did that to save his family.
So please point out WHERE I AM WRONG.
Where are the ERRORS OF FACT IN MY COMMENTS.
Am I ANGRY? YES I AM, I am sick of this SYCOPHANTIC LOVE OF ROMMEL, HE WAS A NAZI and there were NO GOOD NAZIS, EVEN ROMMEL.
He may have been a good General, BUT HE LOST, BRILLIANT GENERALS WIN BATTLES NOT LOSE WARS.
Oh yes he had problems with supplies because the British were sinking his supply ships, OH DEAR WHAT A SHAME, THATS WAR. If this qualifies me as being EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN then so be it, in case you may have forgotten WAR AND THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IS HIGHLY EMOTIONAL.
Rommel was a NAZI, he LOST CRUCIAL BATTLES, HE FAILED MISERABLY AS THE COMMANDER O THE ATLANTIC WALL.
HE WAS A MISERABLE FAILURE.
Perhaps you can list his VICTORIES that led to Hitler winning WWII.
I look forward to your comments.
Oh and which particular political agenda am I pushing.
Crazy that Russia still held German POWs when this movie was released
You are right; what was the point of holding them, better just shoot them and fill a landfill with nazis)
@@alexp.2897 you think every German solider in ww2 deserved to be executed? That’s a horrific thing to say, most were just men fighting for their country. Executing POWs is one of the things that made the SS so reviled yet you want to do the same thing.
Alex P. YOU SIR have no friggin clue about WW2
@@timcahill4676 Reminds me of that one chap who was over 90 years old and was put on a trial because he was a bookkeeper at Auschwitz. Ridiculous.
Many were released 1955
The acting is splendid. They capture their mannerisms perfectly
Exactly! Superb comment..........
Hitler: “You’re a useless defeatist!”
Rommel: “No Im just the only one in here with common sense.”
Rommel should have surrendered to the Allies in Normandy. At least the World would have seen the noble guy who was helpless to serve a monster.
Hitler is the U.S. mass media, Rommel is the American working class citizen.
@@jusnuts1443 Wrong. Hitler is Trump. Rommel is the people in government trying to save the country.
@@steveokula5762 Trump hasn't tried to repeal the 2nd Amendment. The first thing that Hitler did was to take those rights/ freedoms away from the German people. When your knowledge of history is up to date, contact me again. Only then, we can have a intellectual discussion.
@@jusnuts1443 Not that I care what you think, but Hitler"s first act as Chancellor was to dissolve the Reichstag.
Damn for a 1951 movie this is some remarkable acting!
+MetrazolElectricity It did actually, June 17th,1944, at Hitlers' Western Front HQ in France, and right after Rommel left in disgust, one of Hitler's V-1 buzz bombs that was just launched nearby aimed at hitting London malfunctioned and almost hit Hitler's bunker with him in it.
+Dragan Banic Read the book too if you get the chance by the author Brigadier Desmond Young, one of Rommel's former British P.O.W's captured in North Africa, who actually greatly admired the man and interviewed his family, colleagues, Veterans, and surviving friends after the war.His character appears in the beginning of the movie and his words are narrated by actor Michael Rennie (Klaatu from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" also 1951).
+Romansilvercoin you have the title of that book?
that guy "Rommel, The Desert Fox", The True Story Behind A Fabulous Legend, by Brigadier Desmond Young. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1950.
Acting, direction, and writing over time has gotten worse in cinema, not better. The only thing better now is special effects.
James Mason was an absolute brilliant actor. His voice, manner, everything made him extremely "watchable". One of the greats.
Lee Christy
And of course Mason reprised Rommel in the film 'the Desert Rats' in a fantastic scene with a young Richard Burton. Shades of 'Heat' with the famous De Niro/Pacino scene.
He was extraordinary in the film FIVE FINGERS.
I think he also did a cameo of von Manstein in 'Cross of Iron'.
100 % . So good that even though he isn't attempting a German accent , it's kinda lost in his presence
I agree 100 per cent.
I love how James Mason just doesn't even try to do a German accent.
Roger Moore played a nazi at one point too and it was hilarious.
Eichmann from Man in the High Castle: *Fails to follow the example set by James Mason*
I started watching these movies and I was confused as heck!
he was much older in salem lot...
He tried an accent in Cross of Iron.
The look on rommel's face right at the end of the scene is telling. He finally realized he was dealing with a completely insane man. That's why he went in with the plot to kill hitler... I saw this movie. Very good movie.
Rommel more than anything hated Hitler's obsession with murdering Civilian populations. He was a soldier who found it dishonorable to intentionally kill unarmed Civilians who were incapable of fighting back.
Agreed. I love when he pins Hitler down and says, "but the crisis were talking about is now, what about tomorrow morning?"
Rommel was a rather close friend of Hitler in personal terms but abhored and didn't follow the Nazi ideals when he met the Senegalis, Jews and native troops the British had since he respected them. Actually, I think he managed to get one group to change sides and become a volunteer group in the army mainly because he respected them.
Was he a member of the 1944 plot?
@@floydfarless8448 He was aware and was also a potential supporter and leading figure once Hitler was disposed of. He didn't directly get involved in the bombing itself but knowing about it was enough to have his "Family and you execution or suicide pill" schtick with Hitler to happen
Bruno Ganz (Downfall) was the best.
Alec Guinness was excellent as Hitler in "The Last 10 Days of Hitler" from 1973. Not saying he was better than Ganz, but it is a remarkable performance.
A criminally underrated movie!
Also Robert Carlyle
Totally agree. He was superb.
Bruno Ganz had much longer to perfect his Hitler. This was 1951 with probably not as much material on Hitler for this actor to work with.
"And everytime I talk to you, we're facing another crisis!"
Yeah, Adolph. You are losing. That's why.
That's because he was taking on the whole world.
He is an idiot. Was he on drugs during his war councils?
Adolf.
Hitler was an idiot when it came to military strategy and foreign policy. Attacking Britain, the Soviet Union AND the United States at the same time?
@@thunderbird1921 and yet he took over more territory than than the Roman Empire.
German General F W von Mellenthin was a member of Rommel's staff. When asked after the war about James Mason's portrayl, Mellenthin commented "*Entirely* too polite!"
Rommel: I got called a useless defeatist for stating the obvious disadvantages😰
Yamamoto: hold my katana
When your best general say you fucked up you are really fucked up hahhaha Rommel and Yamamoto both sees what will happend
Great drama & acting that didn’t rely on CGI and senseless plots. Mason was a superb actor.
Well, they didn't have CGI. No one had CGI.
("The English have no care for their villages, it's their London that they Love" )
Well you wouldn't know that by looking at it now would you?
48 years old Englishman , never have, and never will , give a flying feck, about that spoit overpriced foreign city-state on the Thames,
HELL even GLASGOW ,(and its people) is nicer than London
I think the French say:-
"France is Blessed by God , But cursed by Paris"
sum's up the relationship between the UK and London to me
@@farmerned6 excuse my ignorance but why is paris so crap?
It's always priceless to read such comments that lament London is a multi ethnic city in the present day. Funny stuff. How did you envision British belligerence across nearly all countries would conclude? It's almost as priceless as 'The Founding Fathers' nonsensical white supremacist slave owning philosophy. I'm sure they too didn't envision Washington, Baltimore Philadelphia and mostly all areas where chattel slavery was employed against Africans would today be predominately African American. Good times eh. Funny how things work out.
Have you ever been there in summer?
London is a great capital.
Actually that was a very realistic Hitler interpretation, not easy as he was speaking in English but the tone of the voice was really like Hitler.
No,it was bullshit.Nothing like him.
@@Tsagia Have you met Hitler? How the fuck would you know?
There's only one recording in existence of Hitler speaking normally. All the other ones are of his public performances.
@Sabrina Dugan is the secret recording of his voice, in a meeting with finnish field marshal Mannerheim, he comes off as very calm and composed, even as they speak of how much both of them had underestimated the soviet industrial capabilities and red army ability to fight. Ita dangerous to try to understand how Hitler actually reacted during the more heated meetings with his staff because, as much aa we have reliable of evidence of outbursts, we also have lots of unreliable reports of people that were following the agenda of portraying hitler as a madman/idiot and sole guilty for Germany's defeat and the horrorsnof ww2
@@quadnod4605 Why don't you ask the same about the original commenter??
If you actually read through history of Hitler’s meetings and conferences with his generals, his characterization here is not at all far from the truth, especially from 1944 on.
Self serving exaggerated trash - History was NOt written by the victors there as much as the survivors, who were covering up their own mistakes, hiding their own war crimes, and blaming ALL on a single "madman" to serve the cold war theories the west needed as they sought to use ex-nazi's and Germany in the cold war effort.
Hitler did rant at his generals
He dismissed guderian because he disagreed
He had fegerlein shot
Kept rommel in limbo for months
Dismissed then recalled runstedt
Kleist dismissed
Hoth dismissed
Witzleben executed
Etc etc
Everyone who disagreed was dealt with
It must be understood that the OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) was compromised before The National Socialist government was established by the German citizens.
Most of the German High Command were of the old aristocracy and were not too warm to the ideals of NS view of life , and there was established, a network of traitors that undermined every theater of operations where victory was not swift and complete.
He was for lack of a better word drugf@*&ed by 1944.
@@willleon9165 "National Socialist". A clever term used by Hitler to attract socialists from the German communist party. Better known by the name "Nazi". Not much socialist about a fascist, as they're on opposite sides of the political spectrum. "National Socialist" has about as much truth to it as North Korea calling itself the "People's Democratic Republic of Korea".
Kudos to the actor for so clearly portraying Rommel's horror at the madman he's facing. Without uttering a single word.
Yes James Mason already played 20.000 leagues Captain Nemo so brillant. Britain had and has still the greatest actors in the world! And I'm not British. I'm German.
The actor playing Hitler was excellent in every respect save his high-pitched voice. James Mason did well to let him carry the scene.
Luther Adler is the actor. A few years later, he was in a Twilight Zone episode where he was granted 3 wishes. One of his wishes was to be a leader of a contemporary country that couldn’t be voted out of office, so the devil made him Hitler😂
The little corporal talking down to his best general.
Lol
Rommel was certainly not his best
General Halder who protested against Hitler because he divided the army in front of Stalingrad into two groups and sent one to the Caucasus.Or his successor General Zeitzler warned Hitler, Stalingrad could be encircled.Hilter laughed are you scared?
@@Marvel66666 General Halder was sometimes working against Hitler he wanted Moscow whilst Hitler wanted the oil.
Don't compare him to Napoleon
How ironic the Actor Luther Adler who's playing Hitler also played Hitler at the end of a Twilight Zone episode called "The Man in the Bottle" one of my favorites
I knew that actor looked familiar. Thank you.
one of my favorite twilight zone also. he plays hitler quite well and i think he's jewish, that must of been difficult.
What a fantastic Twilight Zone episode that was.
Typecasting.
So, so ironic...
AH THAT IS NOT WHAT IRONY IS .
I feel like this rant is one that Hitler himself probably went on. Based on what I’ve read about Hitler, this actor seems to’ve captured his personality pretty well.
v to
Completely a joke. All these actors who try to imitate Hitler are a joke when it comes to stress, I can't imagine Hitler, an introverted man shouting like that
@@fllpsk read Von Manstein's book "Lost Victories"... Hitler could be prone to outburst like this.
You’ve only read ridiculous caricatures
Sabrina Dugan That was only at his rallies and speeches. There’s a recorded audio of him speaking with Finnish General Manneheim, in a totally normal hushed voice.
James Mason was great in this movie,one of my favorites when I was a kid and now.....
Gagunga
No one could look like you sir. You are one of a kind.
No sir, but he can sure act like you. Awaiting further orders from you sir. The Ghost Division is ready to continue our advance into France sir.
@@oilersridersbluejays THIS ACTOR IS WELL KNOWN HIS NAME IS JAMES MASON.
You sick sad little man, making an account on this piece of shit. Oh well we knew his fate HA FUCKING HA
Nazi Hunter the fuck is your problem? Rommel was a hero
It’s weird seeing hitler talk in English.
reminds me of the great dictator with charlie chaplin
Hitler spoke English...and Italian...perfectly
that wasn't Hitler, that was an actor pretending to be Hitler. this world must be very confusing for you.
@Kaiser Jerry movies are just pretend. i thought everyone knew that.
@@solomonreal1977 I’m pretty sure they knew it was an actor. It just looks weird to see Hitler speaking English
Hitler: I have one in mind, I have a weapon in mind!
Rommel: what is it?
Hitler: The Pencil of Doooooooom
Or the cone of silence?
@@marknorris1381 Steiner's attack...
@@thatguyinelnorte ...an attack with a non-existent army?
The V2 rocket was the Wunderwaffe Hitler had in mind. Set it off on the North West Coast of Germany, wait an hour, it will hit London. The RAF intercepted its radio signal so it would hit Croydon or Bromley rather than Central London and thousands died in the last months of the war.
@@oldtoby9377 It was an order!!!
The guy playing Rommel was my favorite actor as a kid loved Journey to the center
Yep, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is a great movie. I've enjoyed it for years.
Keep following the trail of the three notches. 🙂
English actor James Mason!
What great acting I was totally hooked so much better than many recent films!
The reason Europeans who don't speak English often speak it with British accents is because the British are usually their first exposure to English.
Well that would make sense since English originated in England, but more and more people I hear speaking English as a second language have an American inflection.
BoB the English as an ethno-cultural group actually originated from the tribes that arose in northern Germany and subsequently migrated to what is now England
@@BoB-fg6eg of course, though some of these tribes came from parts of the modern Netherlands instead, which is why Dutch is so closely related to English
@@BoB-fg6eg No, English evolved in England as a mixture of the Anglo-Saxon and French/Norman languages. Although we call English a 'Germanic language', in fact about 60% of its words are of Romance/Latin origin, and the other 40% German.
My father was in North Africa with Patton 3rd Armored division! They saw a German general in his staff car get blown up and thought it was Rommel but was wrong! What amazing stories he had from Omaha beach to the Battle of the Bulge winter where he froze his feet! Amazing!
3rd Armored Division didn't serve in North Africa. 1st and 2nd Armored served in Africa. 2nd was later moved to England for the D-Day invasion. 3rd Armored was already in England training. 2nd and 3rd Armored were "Heavy" division that had not been reconfigured to the new 1943 TO & E (standards). They were equipped with more than twice the number of tanks than the other armored divisions.
His reunions were all 3rd Armored ! I will research, thanks
@@tulsaguy9963 Patton commanded 2nd Armored then II Corps in North Africa. Promoted and commanded 7th Army in Sicily, but the famous slapping incidents there cost him his command. Almost sent home, he was recalled to England at Eisenhower's orders. Later, he was given command of 3rd Army and led the breakout in France.
So who was the German general. Let us confirm that story, by name.
Wow. These actors must be really good because I can feel the weight of their responsibilities.
James Mason what a great Actor!!!
I have a notion to second that emotion !!
One of my favorite movies, and Luther Adler did a great job here.
Great film!
James Mason was an excellent actor.
A superb scene by James Mason. With the understanding that this is a movie; the confrontation between Hitler and Rommel is riveting.
The end of the scene shows the moment Rommel realises they've been lead by a madman all along and millions have died in vain.
Yes i see that too, a very fine bit of acting by the great man. I got a chill up my spine just from the expression change - not overdone at all, just perfect. His eyes spoke more dialog in the last few seconds of this clip than in all the rest of it. Oh for the days when great actors were not great egos first.
I’m pretty sure that Rommel knew Hitler was a nut job before this meeting.
rommel realized Hitler was off his rocker when he refused to allow the Afrika Korps to retreat from el Alamein (forgive my spelling)...informed that Hitler said 'hold at all costs' Rommel was supposed to reply, 'He must be crazy.' I think that opened his eyes.
@@julianmarsh1378 Yeah he was told to yield not a single mile. Comedy fucking gold. Think Dolfy must've snorted too much meth there
That's your moronic interpretation of the scene anyway. Thanks for that.
A true warrior admired by his enemies not only by the commanders but by those in the ranks …….
I loved this movie .I never get sick of watching it .James mason was great as rommel.
Damn, that actor has Adolph nailed!!!
The German language has changed so much! 80 years ago, it sounded just like English!
"I detest rudeness, especially my own." James Mason
I can remember that the late James Mason and Richard Burton were in the movie The Desert Fox and I have got George Peppard Michael York and John Mills in The Night Of The Fox as I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx
Churchill said, after Rommels death, that Rommel was a Great General who fought for the wrong side.
Churchill...haha
Thank you for uploading. An incredible clip.
As an anti-nazi monarchist, Rommel is one of my favorite and most respected historical figures.
KHow the hell can you respect a NAZI LOSER, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE AN ACT OF COWARDICE
@@brit1066 he choose to kill himself so he can save his family and staff. He is not a coward he is always in front lines for fuck sake. He is not Nazi, He was a german general coincidentally has a fascist regime.
He was very fond of Hitler until 43 ish
@@bfc3057 Okay. Maybe true, okay. But he never commited war crimes. Never. He got orders of that. But he ignored them all. Because of that: He had honor and he was able to act like this. The nazis made him to their own hero. and he knew that. So he could not fall. But in the end, the nazis found another way to bring him down....
All German soldiers were killing civilians or at the very least turned a blind eye to such killings .All German civilians loved Hitler esrky in the war while the German Army was winning battles. This is just human nature and not difficult to understand.
Sounds like a normal conversation between me and mom
Your mom is Hitler.
Right?
@@thomasvonstolzenfels6776 my dad
Great scene!! Intense!! This scene alone should have won an Academy Award!!
What great performances! I wish this clip was hours longer.
A classic movie James Mason plays a great roll
I thought that was him. He was great in everything.
It amazes me that this movie was made only 6 years after the war.
Fun Fact: James Mason also did a cameo as Rommel in The Desert Rats (1953).
This video is a perfect example why you must never debate or argue with a crazy person. No matter what you say you will not be understood and they will spin your words against you!
similar to the discussions in downingstreet with mr johnson
Which is why I never debate Trumpskis. They are irredeemably stupid and crazy.
@@s.sestric9929 Wise energy use. We need sane, stable, administratively competent, and above all, wise leadership.
Now you know how Nancy Pelosi feels.
when faced with maddness, you stay steadfast and calm.
Rommel is right.
He was, in everything.
No he was traitor
@@illuminatiaqi6130 you are stupid
will bonaparte he is clearly a troll
No weheraboos rommel wasnt some Greek god
Crazy how a single act of defiance from Rommel earned him admiration from his enemies and future generations
that is not what earned him admiration - What earned him admiration was he was fucking brilliant. He is the Father of mechanized Infantry, His strategy, Tactics, and exploits were required reading at the war College, He was never wrong about his assessments, nor his insight. He wanted to take the island of Malta instead of trying to blockade it into submission, Malta played a large role is the extraction of British Soldiers from Africa, and also trapping Rommel's forces in Africa. He also cracked the french resistance codes and knew Normandy was where the allies were landing, and when they were landing. Rommel allegedly was part of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944. Whether he was or not is debatable, what was not debatable is that Hitler thought he was involved, which resulted in Rommel Taking his own life in the Honorable Fashion, (If he did not, his family would have been arrested as well).
@@robertperrotto870 Well, the father of the mechanised armoured german divisions really was Heinz Guderian, in many facts a man as brillians as Rommel, though even less polite to Hitler than Rommel, which made him never reach the rank of The FIeld Marshall. The two were similar in many aspects including strategy, yet they disagreed on how the allied invasion should be handled (and here I think Rommel was spot on). Rommel even wanted Guderian (dismissed at that time) to replace him in Africa when he fell ill, but Hitler refused.
rommel was admired, not only because he was a brilliant tactician, but because he was an honourable soldier in the truest sense. he was known for treating enemy POWs humanely. he was also well respected by the troops under him because he wouldnt throw their lives away. admittedly, according my own research, rommel was far less polite than portrayed in this movie.
@@AlejjSi Rommel envisioned and implemented trucks to move infantry quickly during WW1, wrote a book about it, and Guderian took that concept further.
@@robertperrotto870 Aha, thanks for the additional info.
Only 6 years after the war
Man they MUST have respected Rommel
yes and Gen. Patton.
At that point we were facing communists in Russia, China, and Korea...
@@thatguyinelnorte what's changed????
In Iraq our soldiers posted to them we learned from him and we are going to rape everyone of you, fuck Bagdad
This is what happens when the people of a Nation allow an insane person to take over the country.
Welcome to tRumpland aka America 2020.
Thank the Lord of Light in a few months he’ll be gone
Mike Lynch I was waiting for some dumb ass for this idiotic comparison. Insanity runs rampant in the (“loonie lefts”) Democratic Party
@@patricktraynor7628 The clip portrays Hitler living in a fantasy world. Author Barbara Tuchman defined "folly" as the "pursuit of policy contrary to self interest". Hitler refused to bomb Portsmouth or Southampton, which would have harmed the Allied resupply effort, and kept bombing London instead. Why? Instead of pursuing a militarily sound policy at the advice of his best general, he ranted about his wonder weapons that would change the course of the war. Fantasy and folly.
@@CurtisWithoutHandles both sides are equally as bad. That's why I voted libertarian.
@@mikelynch7271 How many wars has he started? Oh right. None. Remember, "Hillary in a landslide!"
I'm amazed great quality, WW2 just ended 6 years before this movie released
These uniforms are probably real!
MASON..WAS WEARING ROMMELS REAL UNIFORM
.LENT BY THE FAMILY..IT WAS NEVER RETURNED...
@@stephenluczkowski6533 So who's got it now?
@@gordontaylor5373 Cliff Richard
@Old Iron True.
@Old Iron lol i hope it was burned
This was made barely six years after Germany surrendered to the Allies, which is probably why it looks so realistic!
Erich von Stroheim played Rommel in Billy Wilder's "Five Graves to Cairo", filmed in early 1943, while Rommel was still in command.
A real good mystery
Rommel's plan to move the panzer reserves closer to Normandy before D-Day was overruled by Hitler.
When it was finally approved, allied air dominance made daytime travel on roads impossible for German armor reinforcements.
While this was certainly frustrating for Rommel, he recognized after the fact that he could not have repelled the invasion either way. The scope of the allied invasion was far beyond anything the Germans could have stopped on the beach.
Rommel has just realised he boss is a mad man.
I'm certain he knew Hitler was crazy long before 1944.
Those that were on the front lines like Rommel and other soldiers could see and understand that they were being overwhelmed and losing the war. Those that were commanding from Berlin and believed that the enemy wouldn't do this or that, or that a new weapon would turn things around wouldn't realize it until it was too late.
Hitler once called Rommel his favorite general. He brought so many victories for Germany in North Africa, he was the second most popular man in the country......second only to the Fuehrer of course. Rommel liked and admired Hitler initially. But he eventually saw the true face of the man.
So many victories.such a great general.
BULLSHIT, the ONLY VICTORY THAT MATTERS US THE LAST ONE.
Rommel got his ASSKICKED by Monty. Why do you admire a LOSER, when Monty thrashed him and kicked him out of N Africa.Rommel was a LOSER and he DESERTED HIS MEN AND RAN BACK TO GERMANY.
@@brit1066 I didn't say he was a great general. But he did initially give Hitler and the German people many victories in North Africa. He was so foxy in victories that he earned the admiration of friend and foe alike. His soldiers certainly revered him. By the beginning of 1942 it looked as though Rommel and his Afrika Korps would conquer all of North Africa and head for the oil wells of the Middle East. Many British people including those in the government thought the war was lost because of Rommel's victories and also because of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese as well Hong Kong and the invasion of Burma. All this despite America's entry into the war. The problem with the North African campaign is because the Nazi Empire over extended itself in Europe, the Atlantic and the Russian front and that was his primary concern. Hitler wanted to conquer all of Russia to make it Germany's Lebensraum or living space. North Africa really didn't mean much to him; he only fought the British there out of a personal favor to Mussolini whose armies got clobbered by the British 8th Army when he invaded Egypt in 1940 and in Feb. 1941 Hitler sent the Afrika Korps with Rommel as it's leader to come to Mussolini's rescue and defeat the British. Rommel wished and Mussolini begged Hitler to make peace with Russia and concentrate all efforts on the North African front. Mussolini longed for an African empire.
As for being an admirer of Rommel, I wouldn't necessarily call myself an admirer of him. But from what've I've learned he was a decent an honorable man devoted to his wife and son and spent as much time with them as he could given the strains of war. Rommel from what learned was not arrogant like most generals and he certainly no war criminal. He may have fought on the wrong side, but he was a good man. In stark contrast, Montgomery was a very arrogant and nasty individual contemptuous of everybody around him. He had a personal hatred for General Patton and didn't get along with Eisenhower, his superior too well. And his brainchild, Operation Market Garden, the invasion of Holland by Allied paratroopers in September 1944, was a disaster. Plus after the war, he had a controversial relationship with a teenage boy in Switzerland. Montgomery may have fought on the side of the good guys, but he was not a nice man. I betcha Rommel was more loved by Allied troops than Monty.
If Rommel got the armies he wanted that he couldn’t spare because of the eastern front he could’ve driven to the Middle East fast and secured a second front on Russia’s southern flank.
Anti Antifa Oh WOW you are one smart cookie.
If Monty had had the army he wanted then ERWIN WOULD NEVER HAVE SET FOOT IN NORTH AFRICA.
What a bloody STUPID REMARK.
Science-is-Truth no you moron. Rommel easily could kicked your ass if he had the armies he wanted. Look at what he did to you denied.
"I HAVE ONE IN MIND! I HAVE THE WEAPON IN MIND!"
He's LOST his mind.
@@suzannewillis817 Have Gun Will Travel. My favorite tv show in my youth and today.
I still listen to this on a daily hourly rate.
Why is Hitler looking and sounding like an Italian?!
Yeah, I don't like this Hitler either. You can tell the actor studied the archival footage of Hitler's speeches and took some cadence and body language from that and it doesn't fit what I imagine Hitler would act and sound like in private. Plus his voice is a completely different pitch and tone from what I'd expect.
If you want to see a really decent casting job from around the same time period in movies then go watch The Fall of Berlin from 1950. It's a Soviet movie, but they really spared no expense and there's a lot of fun Soviet propaganda and historical tidbits that are subtly and not so subtly worked in. Pretty much every major historical figure in that movie is well cast.
Lmao
He's actually Jewish.
He was austrian so northern italians sound similar, but in private he had a very deep voice and pleasant demeanor he was a successful politician after all.
It would seem that the führer has a meme 0:55
italy the country who switches sides
The prophecy
Don't Click On My Channel And also the country to bring civilization to europe.
IFunny would eat this up
@@stevelucky7579 or tear it apart. Its a 50/50
Rommel has always been my hero.
Still, he was an enthusiastic Nazi up until just before the end.
@@thatguyinelnorte it's a historical fact that he wasn't a party member not everyone was.
@@thatguyinelnorte Nope....er war keiner
This film was based on a great book. Desmond Young the author reckoned he owed Rommel his life.
Great book, nice companion to the Rommel Papers.
The phrase "too little, too late" was never more appropriate.
This is pretty accurate. A lot of Nazi Generals, Advisors, and even SS officers would try their hardest to tell Hitler the faults in his decisions and orders but Hitler would hardly ever listen.
Also Hitler's 'deafness' to those advices came in 3 stages:
Stage 1) 1939~1941 - They where winning left and right (in overall margins) so any criticism about the warfare was desmissed by the victories.
Stage 2) 1941~1944 - The 'inner circle' (mostly Goering, Goebels and Himmler) told Hitler that everything would be fine, since he trusted them more than anyone else he followed those idealistic (although paranoid) scenarios.
Stage 3) 1944~1945 - Hitler lost his mind, hearing about massive losses in warfare and industry day after day he started to move imaginary units left and right despite the warnings from the generals. He stopped hearing even his inner circle and went full regalia into his own downfall.
I'd rather be Hitler's general than Stalin's general. Stalin would just kill anyone who disagreed with him.
@@joshuacrommie6249Heck, even Zhukov who won them everything would have been killed or sent to a Gulag if he wasn’t so popular.
"I HAVE A WEAPON MIND!!!"
He's referring to the Nuke, isn't he?
W. L. Orodor Calaerchon German’s had not interest in developing their atomic program
@@White_Recluse Not my problem.
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 ??? The person replying is telling you that Germany wasn't developing a nuke or thinking of doing so hence the weapon in mind isn't a nuke
He's talking about the v1 flying bomb, which was first used just after d-day, when this scene takes place. that's why he talks about aiming it at London. He also says he has a second and third one in mind even more powerful, which was the v2 missile, idk what v3 would have been, maybe a nuke yeah. Its the concept of "wunderwaffen" that hitler thought could win the war, but they weren't generally nukes.
@@celebalert5616 The V3 existed aswell, it was no nuke though, just some kind of experimental cannon.
Damn just think of it, ww2 was really only several years back before this movie was made
"I have the weapon in mind!"
Whilst Hitler had it in mind, the Americans had it in development.
And the Brits and Norwegians had it under attack.
and after war they all copied the captured german weapons....
No, the Americans had it in production and staged in mass quantities in England.
Look up "Operation Paperclip" - these are programs of the US to copy Nazi-Wonder Weapons and export their parts and the scientist to US., Most famous is Wernher von Braun - later Head of NASA. The germans were far ahead.
Gotta love that the Americans think they made the nukes. Designed on British research by European refugee scientists.
There's a small measure of justice that Hitler is here portrayed by that great light of the Yiddish American theatre, Luther Adler. Although I have to admit, it's not a very flattering portrait.
This meeting did take place but I wonder how close to reality this dialog is/was and also did this help Rommel decide that Hitler had to be removed.
I would have gladly followed Rommel into battle. Even as an American. Besides Gudarian, he is by far the best German general to ever live. It was his strategies on desert warfare and the application of speed and heavy armor taking initiative that led to the extremely successful battle of 73 Easting during the Gulf War. One of the troop carriers even had a picture of Rommel inside it.
Good as a pure tanker, a lower-level tank commander. He excelled in relatively small-unit tactics in the desert. He failed as Area c commander against the invasion in France and was the wrong person for the job.
I believe that Eric Von Man stein was considered to be the best German general of the war. All losers in the end.
Rommel, Guderian, and Manstein...three of Germany's best.
The look on James Mason's face at the end while Hitler is ranting! He's looking at madness!
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This is how we look at Trump.
@@s.sestric9929 Oh, shut it. Do you really have to bring politics in this? Jeez
@@oldtoby9377 Not political at all. Sorry, but your orange messiah is a corrupt, stupid, and possibly unhinged person that a good portion of the country is willing to follow over a cliff, just like Hitler.
@@s.sestric9929 Golly, I did not even once mention that I support Trump in anyway shape or form, and yet you think I do just because I'm trying to get an irrelevant topic out of the way. Do you seriously think we all came and watch this clip merely as an excuse to rant about Trump? I'm sorry, sir/ma'am but I came here to applaud the outstanding performances by Mr. Mason and Mr. Adler, thank you very much.
Best army with worst political leadership
Which is the worst combination possible, since it allows assholes to rule the world, kinda like postwar America (Vietnam, anyone?)
Best army with the best generals, officers, men, equipment, tactics, but worst access to resources and yes, worst political meddling.
@TC G Which made him an even Worse leader to squander all the gains made:(To start wars with Russia and America in the same time frames with Japan as an Allie was completely ignorant,the Japanese had already let Hitler extend German word and resources out for them and they didn't come thru so he did it again knowing they couldn't be fully trusted..then allies Germany with Italy who at that time still had a military whose armament was still at WW1 standards...Hitler rode on the shoulders of very Great Counsel and accomplished Military minds and a population that was suffering dearly from the Treaty of Versailles leaving them destitute,a Great Leader would not commit genocide but instead expell,rounding up homosexuals and mentally I'll and slaughtering them is Not the traits of a Great Leader...he played on the populations fears and used Deciet and Murder as his go to instead of working out solutions that left him NO way out ...Hitler was Not a Great Leader but he was intelligent in a very sick and twisted way and Very aware of how to play on people's fears and racial tensions,but at the end of it all all his "brilliant" plans came back on him and led him and Germany to Ruin:(
@@oilersridersbluejays What child? funny... cause the U.S Army had Better Equipment as a whole compared to the German Army, Hell U.S Army actually had Radios for their Squads, Better Rifles, Better anti-Armor Weapons,Better training, better Adaptability,WAY better Medical Care for its Troops, Better Food, hell was even better paid. I think you need to start reading history. the Majority of the German Army through the Entire war used Horses,
true man
I'm sure Hitler watched this movie from Argentina
That movie was released in 1951
Not even a decade after ww2 ended
Millions of soldiers that fought in the war were still alive back then
A great clip of uncle Jim at his finest
One of the top field commanders of the war and the daft little corporal knows more than he does
"I know more than the generals do about ISIS". Sounds hauntingly familiar, doesn't it?
@@MetalGuru965 Its a good job the person you are talking about actually has crippling self doubt or he might have actually done things without needing to be loved for it first.
Imagine the arrogance required to tell one of your best generals he's no good at thinking about the battlefield
He didn't say that though, did he? It was "you're no good at thinking _above_ the battlefield".
Yeah, good call. The accent through me off
Truth be told, there is a slight overhype about Rommel, given that his initial successes at the North-African front came from material and numerical superiority and better aggressive tactics against and under-supplied enemy whose misguided orders was to simply hold ground and defend mindlessly. In fact, the "military genius" myth was created by british commanders to try to justify their failures and hide the fact that they had been mishandling the campaign after they thought they had beaten the italians at Libia
@@AndreLuis-gw5ox I mean, that could almost be said about any military commander. Every victory is as much thanks to the enemy making mistakes as to you making fewer. But Rommel's initiative, disobeying contrary orders from higher up in both instances, ensured Germany closed its encirclement of the French army in May 1940, and threw the British back from Tripoli in the beginning of the Afrika Corps campaign. He sometimes couldn't see the bigger picture (like cancelling the German/Italian plan to seize Malta, which would have been hugely beneficial to his supply lines later), but as a battlefield commander he was undoubtedly one of the better ones.
The German generals had no problems with Uncle Adolph as long as they were winning. When they started losing, they started to develop more issues.
In fact many were promoted to field Marshalls after fall of france
@@angelamagnus6615 Der Fuhrer promoted them to cut their political clout. Two field marshals like a Ludendorff or Hindenburg have a lot more political prestige for opposition than eight that owe their positions to you..
@@johnchambers2996 but they did get promotion out of merit. of course I disagree with Paulus promotion because he was trapped with Stalingrad and there was a political agenda behind it.
@@angelamagnus6615 Well, from what I have read, it was mostly a cynical political move to undercut the opposition power of the German General Staff. Politicians do it today with promotions in the alphabet soup of government bureaucracies.
This is made in 1951. Since the people who fought and experienced the war were still alive. This is probably one of the best accounts of an argument between Rommel and Hitler.
I sure would like to see how this "Hitler" (Luther Adler) would've performed the Steiner Rant
I love the German accent. Rommel sounds as refined as an Englishman.
that's because he is English
@@respectablebogan3276 And a very famous one, too. James Mason. It was a joke.
THIS IS MY BOSS WHEN EVER I TRY TO GIVE HIM SUGGESTIONS
Amen!
It's a little surreal to see a movie made so soon after the end of this war. Emotions still riding high about the whole conflict, and our entertainment was already exploring it. It's sorta like seeing World Trade Center with Nick Cage or that United 93 movie coming out five years after 9/11. Going to the movies and seeing something you lived through, so soon after it happened, when everything is still reeling from it. It's just a very weird thing to think about.
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It was also fresh in the minds that the story of the July 20th were barely coming out and Rommel's suicide was not revealed until the Allies interviewed Rommel's family. And in the Trials of Nuremberg, it was Field Marshal Keitel who revealed that Rommel was forced to commit suicide and not died of injury.
By the time this movie came out the U.S. and U.K. were more worried about the Soviet Union and Communism than anything. A movie glorifying a German general who martyred himself wasn't all that shocking for 1951. Had it come out 10 years earlier then it would have been insanely controversial, somewhat like some of the pro-Soviet movies were around 1943-1945, despite them being an ally during that time they still weren't fully trusted and most people knew Stalin would be the next menace to deal with after Hitler was defeated.
A lot of movies like this were even made *during* the war: from 1940 onwards. Casablanca is probably the most famous, but there were dozens of others.
This statement is very profound and indeed makes sense. Thank you.
Thank you very much
I have the weapon in mind.
Brings out panzer 8 mauss, so heavy, that bridge breaks down.
And built a gun so big, it took three days and over four thousand men to assemble
The guy with the mustache reminds of the guy I work with.
funny
Rommel was a ,brilliant military tactician who,I wish, would have crossed over to the allied side and lived out a full life.
That is most definitely an attempt to make Hitler even more of a ridiculed figure, pure propoganda.
I’m just picturing what this scene could’ve been like with the actor from the 2012 Rommel film portraying him and Bruno Ganz from Downfall as Hitler.
I was really waiting for Hitlet to scream, "Fengelein, Fengelein, Fengelein !!!"