My great great grandfather talked to him in Africa and he said that he should left as fast aus possible and not to wait for his unit. True Story He died at the age of 102
Rommel was not a stupid man, while commanding, a man can feel the pressure from those above him. i believe rommel was sincere in this statement but the people behinf him was "not"
My grandpa was a lieutenant under Rommel by the pioneers, Artillery Battalion 33. Afrika Korps. Er sagte Rommel war ein toller militärischer General und netter Mensch. Möge er in Frieden ruhen.
One of the best skirmish tacticians in that war. Could use 100 men to beat 1,000. He once said to British commanders, "What is your two Shermans to my one Panzer if i fight them separately?"
Yeetwch Y Baban The British borrowed hundreds of our Sherman tanks and some they converted into their own variants like the Sherman Firefly. But he’s in Africa many Sherman’s were also given to the British when Churchill request FDR to send them planes and tanks and ammo to help fight
He has even defeated an entire Italian army of 10,000 men strong in world war 1 as a soldier employing the tactic of blitzkrieg except it was not tanks but soldiers he is unique warrior
Being on the wermacht didnt mean he was a nazi. He was a Field Marshall copying with his duty. Dont mix up things bro. He died exactly for his opposition on Hitler's mad regime.
@@irenechoinski3307 don't give me that. If he was so opposed to the Nazi why would he take orders from Hitler knowing he was a Nazi? Stop defending evil it's not a good look
A blight on chivalry and code of honour what they did to this great man. I'm English, but I worship Field Marshal Rommel. Treated our boys with respect, and we'd have returned him the gesture in kind by giving him asylum in Britain if he'd have wanted it. I love that story about Rommel getting lost in no-mans land and stumbling on one of our encampments. Our lads gave him a tour of the camp and had a smoke with him. The leader of the enemy. Imagine that was Hitler?! We'd have strung the bastard up! Rest in peace, mighty desert fox.
@Alberto Apparently, that's what happened. They only admitted it later, after the war. Rommel was fluent in English, and was chatting to several of the officers. He said he'd send them some supplies if possible, and then left. That's how highly regarded he was.
@ Lone Star "worship"?! NO, HELL NO! idolize? No! Respect Erwin Rommel for who he was as a Professional Soldier? Yes. I respect him for his Duty, Devotion and Nation's service. However, would certainly NOT encourage worship NOR idolization. Respect is MORE PROPER! That is All. As A Professional Soldier I and others understand and comprehend that Duty to your country is the Highest Honor!
@@ericsmith8059 if it was Germany that won, then Patton and the other allied Generals are the war criminals. No good guy or bad guy in a war. Just a winner and a loser. Besides, if you based it on morality, Rommel was a better general and cared for his men and the POWs more than the American generals he faced in his African campaign. So much so, that the British did not like what the Americans were doing.
@@chrisreddy6808 he isn’t sympathizing with the nazis. Rommel didn’t agree with hitler and the nazi ideology, and was Among many who treated people with respect.
@@jeppedyreborggunslev8441Initially, he was symphathizing with the nazi on the degree where Germany should be strong and should recover but not to the degree where hitler and the SS started to round out the final plan on killing millions of jews
YES EVEN VISIT JERUSALEM AS MAYOR HE WAS VERY RESPECTFUL MANFRED ROMMEL TO BAD NOT ALL GERMAN GENERALS WAS GENTELMAN AS ROMMEL LUCKY THEY WHET NOT AS GOOD AS ROMMEL STILL A TRAGIC FIGURE R.I.P ....
@@morningstar7896 just remember that the cost of world war two was 50,000,000+ people MURDERED AND BUTCHERED through that terrible conflict and DELIBERATELY STARTED by a madman along with his willing accomplices. the social costs were exceptionally high and not just the loss of treasure, capital, resources and labor. the very LIVES of millions of people SNUFFED OUT for the insane aspirations of a madman and his hubris, arrogance and delusional dream of a socialist utopia! NEVER FORGET THAT!
His tactics are required study in tank schools around the world. When a group of Iraqi soldiers was captured, two of them were placed in an Abrams with a framed portrait of Rommel on the wall. One of the soldiers asked the tank commander who it was. His reply? "If you knew who that was, you wouldn't be sitting in my tank!"
They had the portrait of a Nazi in an American tank? Wtf- at the end of the day, Rommel chose to ignore the atrocities committed by his fellow countrymen and women. It is still shocking that his portrait was inside an American tank in the 90s! If I was the CO, I would have demoted the tank commander by two ranks and sent him home.
Well, there was a Bundeswehr (modern german military) base which was named after him. In the 70s, a west german destroyer was named after Rommel , along with Lütjens
@@messianic_scam Yep he was forced to commit suicide because he did so in order to protect his family so they say. It was really murder by order of Hitler!
Was für ein Dummkopf. Man kann doch nicht alle deutschen Offiziere die Militärisch im 2ten Weltkrieg was geleistet haben mit der Shoa zusammensetzen und ihn als Verbrecher bezeichnen. Guck dir mal die Leute um Staufenberg an. Sind das Verbrecher in deinen Augen?
Alex K Damn right. And THAT is why he was awarded recognition by Churchill himself in the Houses of Parliament as a true soldier of courage, conviction and integrity, because he displayed no malice nor vicious inclinations in his 'war making'. He treated all POWs with due care and attention to their welfare. [It's a good job he wasn't allowed to fight on the Eastern Front! Initially, as a Major General, he would have been fired for disobeying orders when it came to the Commissar Order... I mean to say, just because your enemy doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions doesn't mean you should sink to his base levels] Edit: and I just realised - Churchill also gave the order that Rommel should be killed by Commandos if at all possible because wherever he fought, he kicked Allied arse! But, as I'm sure Rommel would have agreed, "That is war, after all". They couldn't beat him any other way and he knew it! Not very sportsmanlike but, as the idiot British Tank Officers who 'cavalry-charged' Rommel's handful of light tanks which led them into dug-in Anti-tank guns might say, "Dash it all! This Rommel chap has blown up all our bally tanks again! It's just not cricket!"
Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel is a soldier's soldier and a General's General. He is a gentleman and hero widely respected by friends and foe alike. I salute Feldmarschall Rommel. May he rest in eternal peace.
I saw FM Runstedt helping lay the wreath at Rommel's memorial. Runstedt had often disagreed with Rommel's strategy of sending panzers to counter the Allies ON the beaches to throw them back into the sea. Well, we know for sure there were 2 beaches that certainly would have worked. But Runstedt believed that sending panzers forward onto the beaches could only have ended in losing their panzers. Runstedt believed that holding the panzers back until the right opportunity presented itself [such as bad weather] would have been better. He was certain that Allied airpower and surface ships would have destroyed any German forces BUT he forgot that surface ships could not fire upon the German units if they had closed with the Allied units and airpower would have been equally dangerous to both Axis AND allied forces if the panzers had been sent in straight away. Yes, it would have been costly but the Allies would have lost at least 2-3 beaches and the likelihood of them forming a beachhead would have been more and more unlikely as the days passed. The 21. Pz Div had managed to manoeuvre a Battn of Pz Grenadiers around the Brit 3. & 5. Parachute Brigades and the 100.Pz Regt also [but the 100.Pz Regt was composed of old French early war 2-man tanks so could not be considered much use against any form of Allied armour]. But these units were almost cut off when 260 Brit gliders carrying 30 light tanks and much of the Brit 6. Airlanding Brigade landed almost behind the German units and without support they would have been decimated as British units were making their way up from the Normandy 'Sword' beaches, along the Orne River and about to link up with the 5. Para Brigade holding that bridge from 21. Pz Div to halt its progress from attacking the British units landing on the beaches. By the time Hitler had woken up, though, it was already too late to do anything as Allied jabos forced the panzers of the 21. Pz Regt into tree cover and had lost several panzers from airstrikes and/or surface ships gunnery.
Had Field Marshall Rommel been given free hand or for that was the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in France than D-Day would have been a complete failure for the Allies and that the Allies would have been thrown back to the Sea thus the complete failure of D-Day. And thus the History and the present would have been different as of now.
@@tiagomonteiro130 you don't seem to have any argument .... Rommel = German General. German army = fighting for Hitler and his criminal Government. Rommel = important player in this war of agression. OK?
@@KR-jt4ut Lmao that's your Argument German Soldiers = Evil you just ignor the fact that Erwin disobeyed Hitler freed prisoners never joined the Party and was honored and respected by the allies you just don't like Germans you don't care about History as long as you have the chance to hate on them lmao there are so many good German Soldiers like Franz Stigler and Josef Gangl
Erwin Rommel is one of the most misrepresented figures in history. Frequently used as the "good" German general, this narrative is a distortion of history that ignores among others, the treatment of Jews in North Africa as well as Rommel's role in Italy. Rommel was an ardent Nazi. But even before that he was known as an enemy of democracy and the republican order. In 1920 he was supportive of the Kapp Putsch, an attempt by extreme right-wing German Freikorps to overthrow the Republic and establish an extreme right-wing dictatorship in Germany. Commanding a security battalion of the Reichswehr in the town of Schwäbisch Gmund, he violated the oath he had sworn only recently to the Republic by ordering his troops to violently suppress a demonstration staged by workers in opposition to the attempted Kapp Putsch. While it didn't come so far that his troops fired live ammunition on the demonstration, they brutally beat and used a fire hose against a peaceful demonstration against an attempt to violently overthrow democratic order. [Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg (Hg.): Mythos Rommel. Katalog zur Sonderausstellung 18. Dezember 2008 bis 30. August 2009, Stuttgart 2009, p. 35.] Later after the take over of power by the Nazis, he developed strong political sympathies and a close working relationship with Hitler, coming so far as to become Hitler's favorite general. It is unsurprising that Goebbels wrote in his diary in 1942 that Rommel "is not only politically close to National Socialism, he is a Nationalsocialist." [Elke Fröhlich (ed.): Die Tagebücher des Joseph Goebbels, München u. a. 1987-2001, II. 4, 01.10.1942, p. 38.] Already during his command in France we see several episodes of him committing what classified as a war crime under the Hague Conventions. At some point he ordered civilian houses to be burned in order to use the smoke to advance his troops over the river Maas. This is a case where it could be arguable that it is within the lines of the Hague Conventions since they only forbid the "wanton destruction of an enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war”. Whether this was necessitated by war is arguable but it nonetheless points in a problematic direction. On a second occasion, he ordered his troops to pretend they were surrendering in order to be able to advance closely on French positions and then shoot the French soldiers who had prepared to take them into custody. This is a clear violation of the Hague Rules on what they refer to as "perfidy" and constitutes a war crime. [both of these episodes are relayed in rather glorifying terms in the German version of Irving's Rommel biography, p. 61ff.] Concerning his time in Libya, the research situation is difficult but it is clear that upon entering the town of Benghazi, Wehrmacht soldiers of the Afrika Korps took part in a pogrom against the Jews of Benghazi that left 67 people dead. Similarly, newer research has uncovered that the Wehrmacht sent advisors to the Italians for the deportation of Libyan Jews to Italy as well as for the construction of concentration camps in Libya, the most famous being Jado and Benghazi where over 600 Jews died due to poor conditions. A question that still remains open is what role Rommel played in the execution of over 500 POWs of mostly Austrian and German origin from the British Jewish brigade. While it is true that Rommel did not relay the order from Berlin to execute German and Austrian members of the French Foreign Legion, who had been political opponents of Nazi Germany, when the Germans caught them, the issue of the Jewish POWs and his role in said executions remains shadowy. [Wolfgang Proske: „Ich bin nicht beteiligt am Attentat“: Erwin Rommel, in: Proske. (ed.): Täter Helfer Trittbrettfahrer. NS-Belastete von der Ostalb, Münster/Ulm 2010, S. 207ff.; Maurice M. Roumani,: The Jews of Libya. Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement. Brighton/Portland (UK) 2009, p. 34-35]. In Tunisia, the situation is more clear. Here Rommel collaborated closely with the Einsatzgruppe North Africa under Walter Rauff of gas van fame. Rommel worked closely with Rauff in using Jewish forced laborers to build fortifications for the German army and in constructing over 30 concentration camps in Tunisia where more than 2500 Jews perished during the German presence there. Furthermore on July 20, 1942 Rommel issued instructions to Rauff and his Einsatzgruppe that once the Germans had conquered Palestine, it would be the Einsatzgruppe's task to kill the Jews of Palestine. [Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers: "Beseitigung der jüdisch-nationalen Heimstätte in Palästina." Das Einsatzkommando bei der Panzerarmee Afrika 1942. In: Jürgen Matthäus und Klaus-Michael Mallmann (ed.): Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart, Darmstadt 2006, p. 153-176] Also, he allowed a Judenrat to be established in Tunis and watched on when Wehrmacht soldiers plundered Jewish Ghettos in towns like Tunis and Susse. [Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers: Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina, Darmstadt 2007, p. 137f; published in English as "Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews of Palestine", New York 2009]. In 1943 he was responsible for preparing the German measures in Italy after Mussolini had been deposed following the Allied landing in Italy. There Rommel issued several orders on which the brutality with which the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans were treated. On September 23 after Mussolini had been deposed and Badoglio had negotiated an Italian armistice with the Allies, Rommel issued an order to his troops stating: Sentimentality concerning the Badoglio following gangs [Banden, Nazi German dictum for Partisans and other irregular resistance indicating criminality] in the uniforms of the former ally is misplaced. Whoever fights against the German soldier has lost any right to be treated well and shall experience toughness reserved for the rabble which betrays friends. Every member of the German troop has to adopt this stance. This order was the basis for several brutal acts in disarming the members of the Italian army captured by the Germans. Summary executions and hangings were common in order to make an example and force their fellow soldiers to give up their weapons willingly. This too was a clear war crime. Furthermore, the disarmed Italian soldiers were not be treated as POWs. They received a special status that was called "Military Interned" which indicated worse treatment. [The Orders can be found in the German Bundesarchiv, Militärarchiv Freiburg, RM 7/1333 und RH 27-24/26. They are partially printed in Jürgen Förster: Wehrmacht, Krieg und Holocaust. In: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (ed.): Die Wehrmacht - Mythos und Realität, München 1999, p. 961.]. Now, as for Rommel's involvement in the July 20 plot: While one of Rommel's deputies, Hans Speidel, who had been involved in the July 20 plot, wrote after the war that Rommel was a member of the resistance, there is no evidence that this is accurate. While there is some indication that Rommel would have supported a separate peace with the Western allies in order to continue fighting the Soviet Union, it doesn't go much further than that. From Maurice Remy in his book Mythos Rommel to David Fraser in his biography of Rommel, there is strong consensus that Rommel was not involved in the plot and didn't know about it beforehand. One of the strongest indications of this is a letter to his wife that he wrote that he was shocked by the attempt on Hitler's life and that he thanked God that it didn't succeed. So, in conclusion, while there is one instance in which he did not relay an order to kill German members of the French Foreign Legion, there is overwhelming evidence that Rommel was involved in and responsible for war crimes, while there is a lack of evidence for his participation in the resistance. The idea that Rommel was a "good German" is a myth and part of the larger overall Clean Wehrmacht myth that is intended to exonerate the members of the German armed forces of their atrocities and crimes.
Generals Burgdorf and Maisel told Rommel to commit suicide. Burgdorf himself committed suicide in Hitler's bunker... Son Manfred became maire of Stuttgart and became a friend of Patton's son....
Not at all. I get that taking a shot to glorify a nazi-Germany general is attractive but he fought for the very wrong people/side. Also, he was narcissistic
Hard to comprehend the 'thoughts' of Field Marshall Romell, on hearing THE NEWS from .. The Two Generals. "The mind of The Dessert Fox." An incredible strategist .. !!
What I have read from history is that the general was not happy from the war casualties and wisely advice Hitler. But he was killed by the regime and after his death was respected by his enemies for his heroic act
The two Generals which come to Rommel’s house were Burgdorf and Maisel. The same Burgdorf as in the Downfall movie who is shouted at by Hitler along with Krebs, Keitel and Jodl.
A Great Warrior and tactician, along with another Great Warrior George Patton, both used and then destroyed by the Military they respected, terrible........
He chose to take his own life (through a cyanide pill) in order to protect his family from harm. He took that decision there and then. The FM probably had not woken up that morning knowing it would be his last day on earth. Such strength.... Also feel the helplessness of his son. He could have done anything to stop that car..accosted those two SS men, run away with his father and mother. The circumstances were briefly under his control. Yet none of this happened..nobody was mentally prepared for this. This is worse than Stalin's purges.
In reality, Mannfred was well aware that the city had been surrounded by SS soldiers. Hitler dispatched a battalion just in case. There was no escaping or fighting it. Rommel knew all that and had duly briefed his wife and Mannfred. Very sad situation, but Field Marshall Rommel was brave and decisive even in his last moments. What an inspiration!
He was a brilliant general and a great tactician. Its a petty that ,Hitler ruled germany and had no idea about war plans & tactics.he even never went to war academy.
I can’t help but wonder how many German soldiers lost their will to go on because of Ramos’s passing and I’m sure what really really happened permeated it’s three through the German ranks and just undermined their will to go on
Charles Surber Charles Surber Minus Europeans minus arms sales and armaments factories = no 1st, 2nd, Cold War, Korean, Vietnam, Iraq, Iraq, Syria and most wars.
Did everyone miss the karma his first child mother felt the pain of losing him drank poison and after the then wife felt the pain of losing him he took poison damn
wow, i did not know that all, but you talk of the good old times is it all over now? i hope you have a great time there in Milwaukee and if you like, continue to learn german good luck und alles gute für dich, mein Freund
I was at the wolf's lair in 1994 , I'm a cousin of col gen Ludwig Beck , I had seen Sam Rommel as a descendant of the field Marshall Rommel , if you wish to contact via FB please do @ Joe Oriente Jr or Joe Oriente.
Girls: You didnt cry in titanic? Do you even have emotions?
Boys:
Perfect 👌
So true
Precise
So true
a true soldier and gentle man . rest in peace .
@@MrKidgavilan shut up snowflake
@@MrKidgavilan rommel was a wermacht officer not a ss one, study story before talk
A gentlemen?!
@Wyatt Ingram Rommel was a fanatical nazi. He tolerated the July 1944 plot, by not denouncing it, yet he had always been a nazi
@Wyatt Ingram Look up the clean wehrmacht myth.
My great great grandfather talked to him in Africa and he said that he should left as fast aus possible and not to wait for his unit.
True Story
He died at the age of 102
Rommel was not a stupid man, while commanding, a man can feel the pressure from those above him. i believe rommel was sincere in this statement but the people behinf him was "not"
Excuse-me .... Can you explain it better?
Tell us some more detail, please
@@tm75_88 Rommel told his great great grandfather to desert from the unit as they were retreating.Thats what he is saying.
Will love to hear in person from you.... With whiskey
My grandpa was a lieutenant under Rommel by the pioneers, Artillery Battalion 33. Afrika Korps.
Er sagte Rommel war ein toller militärischer General und netter Mensch. Möge er in Frieden ruhen.
One of the best skirmish tacticians in that war. Could use 100 men to beat 1,000. He once said to British commanders, "What is your two Shermans to my one Panzer if i fight them separately?"
Shermans were american tanks no? Or were they panthers?
Yeetwch Y Baban The British borrowed hundreds of our Sherman tanks and some they converted into their own variants like the Sherman Firefly. But he’s in Africa many Sherman’s were also given to the British when Churchill request FDR to send them planes and tanks and ammo to help fight
@Yeetwch Y Baban the British used Sherman’s before the Americans did in Africa.
@@potatojuice5124 but those Shermans were given to them by America.
He has even defeated an entire Italian army of 10,000 men strong in world war 1 as a soldier employing the tactic of blitzkrieg except it was not tanks but soldiers he is unique warrior
He is one of the few historical figures whose death saddens me deeply.
More the way of his death, had it been in battle it would be acceptable but suicide for caring more about his country than it's insane tyrant.
He was a vital cog in hitlers war machine, how can you say this. So what if he disagreed and revolted against Adolf in the end, too little too late.
I hope this is a joke lol
Being on the wermacht didnt mean he was a nazi. He was a Field Marshall copying with his duty. Dont mix up things bro. He died exactly for his opposition on Hitler's mad regime.
@@irenechoinski3307 don't give me that. If he was so opposed to the Nazi why would he take orders from Hitler knowing he was a Nazi? Stop defending evil it's not a good look
A blight on chivalry and code of honour what they did to this great man. I'm English, but I worship Field Marshal Rommel.
Treated our boys with respect, and we'd have returned him the gesture in kind by giving him asylum in Britain if he'd have wanted it.
I love that story about Rommel getting lost in no-mans land and stumbling on one of our encampments. Our lads gave him a tour of the camp and had a smoke with him. The leader of the enemy.
Imagine that was Hitler?! We'd have strung the bastard up! Rest in peace, mighty desert fox.
Good man.
@Alberto Apparently, that's what happened. They only admitted it later, after the war. Rommel was fluent in English, and was chatting to several of the officers.
He said he'd send them some supplies if possible, and then left. That's how highly regarded he was.
@@lonestar6709 you're an embarrassment to a great country
@@levonwilliams7256 Rommel was widely respected by almost every country. Even Britain.
@ Lone Star "worship"?! NO, HELL NO! idolize? No! Respect Erwin Rommel for who he was as a Professional Soldier? Yes. I respect him for his Duty, Devotion and Nation's service. However, would certainly NOT encourage worship NOR idolization. Respect is MORE PROPER! That is All. As A Professional Soldier I and others understand and comprehend that Duty to your country is the Highest Honor!
Rest In Peace Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
I hope his victims may rest in Peace. Rommel, a supporter of that mad man, Hitler....
@Koen R. Well, I mean, he was killed because he tried to kill Hitler, after all.
@@potatojuice5124 He committed suicide
@Doggo Sorry but he was forced to. Same thing as getting killed imo
@@potatojuice5124 getting killed virtually implies that your life was embezzled by someone else.
great dad
great husband
and great general
War criminal and should have been strung up.
@Kevin Johnson Its war, no one is the Good guy or Bad guy
@@EukalyptusBonBon why are you making excuses for someone who killed thousands of innocent people
@@levonwilliams7256 say that to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
@@ericsmith8059 if it was Germany that won, then Patton and the other allied Generals are the war criminals. No good guy or bad guy in a war. Just a winner and a loser. Besides, if you based it on morality, Rommel was a better general and cared for his men and the POWs more than the American generals he faced in his African campaign. So much so, that the British did not like what the Americans were doing.
I visited the memorial site where field marshal Rommel was forced to commit suicide and I also visited his grave. A very moving day for me.
Nazi sympathizers ...shameful
@@chrisreddy6808 he isn’t sympathizing with the nazis. Rommel didn’t agree with hitler and the nazi ideology, and was Among many who treated people with respect.
Starting a war is just for the wrong reason. We know evil don't last.
Grew up in Herrlingen, as a Kid been inside Rommel Villa, but it took time for me to fully understand his impact and legacy.
@@jeppedyreborggunslev8441Initially, he was symphathizing with the nazi on the degree where Germany should be strong and should recover but not to the degree where hitler and the SS started to round out the final plan on killing millions of jews
The best and more courageous General that ever lived. A soldiers soldier, may he rest in peace!
Rest in peace general. We will never forget you.
what
FROM ONE WHO LIVED THROUGH THE WAR HE WAS WELL RESPECTED BY THE BRITISH A TRUE GENTLEMAN
And USA
OKAY BUDDY
WHY ARE WE IN CAPS
@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 I DONT KNOW
@@trxshyy-2316 Churchill legit did a BBC announcement when he heard about his death praising him
even this actor portrays a stern, dignified man, despite the circumstances
His son Manfred Rommel later became mayor of Stuttgart (quiet some time) one of the biggest germam cities.
YES
EVEN VISIT JERUSALEM AS MAYOR
HE WAS VERY RESPECTFUL
MANFRED ROMMEL
TO BAD NOT ALL GERMAN GENERALS WAS GENTELMAN AS ROMMEL
LUCKY THEY WHET NOT AS GOOD AS ROMMEL
STILL A TRAGIC FIGURE
R.I.P ....
If only Rommel became president of Germany during the Depression in the 20-30s
Alvin chang We would have been in the Great Depression much longer if WW2 Hadn’t of started
50Cal ww2 gave people jobs that what ended the Great Depression right we would’ve still been in Great Depression if it wasn’t for ww2
if he killed Hitler
@@morningstar7896 just remember that the cost of world war two was 50,000,000+ people MURDERED AND BUTCHERED through that terrible conflict and DELIBERATELY STARTED by a madman along with his willing accomplices. the social costs were exceptionally high and not just the loss of treasure, capital, resources and labor. the very LIVES of millions of people SNUFFED OUT for the insane aspirations of a madman and his hubris, arrogance and delusional dream of a socialist utopia! NEVER FORGET THAT!
@Culturally Right Economically Left your name and photo is…is…discombobulating.
His tactics are required study in tank schools around the world. When a group of Iraqi soldiers was captured, two of them were placed in an Abrams with a framed portrait of Rommel on the wall. One of the soldiers asked the tank commander who it was. His reply? "If you knew who that was, you wouldn't be sitting in my tank!"
They had the portrait of a Nazi in an American tank? Wtf- at the end of the day, Rommel chose to ignore the atrocities committed by his fellow countrymen and women.
It is still shocking that his portrait was inside an American tank in the 90s! If I was the CO, I would have demoted the tank commander by two ranks and sent him home.
I was the tank driver and i can confirm this.
@@anandhb2584 Rommel wasn't a Nazi, he took part in the 20 July Plot and then was forced into suicide.
Rommel did get force to commit unalive because of his involvement with valkyrie @anandhb2584
If the field marshal only knew how his name would be so revered by so many some 70 years after his death.
Well, there was a Bundeswehr (modern german military) base which was named after him.
In the 70s, a west german destroyer was named after Rommel , along with Lütjens
The base of a german Panzerbqtalion is called Gerneral Feldmarschall Rommel Kaserne ive been there myself 2 weeks.
I respect Erwin Rommel. That lunatic Hitler was a coward. The "Desert Fox " was a General's General
@H U M A N I T Y What was funny here
My most admiration is for Frau Rommel, Rommel's Wife; who had hardly accepted her husband's DEADLY DECISION.
+Vijay RK
Gee she went around the house didn't she? xD
Melody Storm Well, i'm sure she did, but it's not funny. -.-
Hardly a choice is there?.
@@messianic_scam Official Story ..... "He Died of War Wounds"
@@messianic_scam Yep he was forced to commit suicide because he did so in order to protect his family so they say. It was really murder by order of Hitler!
The more a read watch and learn about Rommel the more angry I get. I will definitely being paying my respects when I'm Germany.
old soldiers never die, they just fade away
The last german knight!
Comming from some1 who uses this name, which is full of shame and extraordinary guilt. I spit on you.
The nazi doctor/scientist was Mengele though.
Was für ein Dummkopf. Man kann doch nicht alle deutschen Offiziere die Militärisch im 2ten Weltkrieg was geleistet haben mit der Shoa zusammensetzen und ihn als Verbrecher bezeichnen. Guck dir mal die Leute um Staufenberg an. Sind das Verbrecher in deinen Augen?
Alex K damn right
Alex K
Damn right. And THAT is why he was awarded recognition by Churchill himself in the Houses of Parliament as a true soldier of courage, conviction and integrity, because he displayed no malice nor vicious inclinations in his 'war making'. He treated all POWs with due care and attention to their welfare.
[It's a good job he wasn't allowed to fight on the Eastern Front! Initially, as a Major General, he would have been fired for disobeying orders when it came to the Commissar Order... I mean to say, just because your enemy doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions doesn't mean you should sink to his base levels]
Edit: and I just realised - Churchill also gave the order that Rommel should be killed by Commandos if at all possible because wherever he fought, he kicked Allied arse! But, as I'm sure Rommel would have agreed, "That is war, after all". They couldn't beat him any other way and he knew it!
Not very sportsmanlike but, as the idiot British Tank Officers who 'cavalry-charged' Rommel's handful of light tanks which led them into dug-in Anti-tank guns might say, "Dash it all! This Rommel chap has blown up all our bally tanks again! It's just not cricket!"
Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel is a soldier's soldier and a General's General. He is a gentleman and hero widely respected by friends and foe alike. I salute Feldmarschall Rommel. May he rest in eternal peace.
I saw FM Runstedt helping lay the wreath at Rommel's memorial. Runstedt had often disagreed with Rommel's strategy of sending panzers to counter the Allies ON the beaches to throw them back into the sea. Well, we know for sure there were 2 beaches that certainly would have worked.
But Runstedt believed that sending panzers forward onto the beaches could only have ended in losing their panzers. Runstedt believed that holding the panzers back until the right opportunity presented itself [such as bad weather] would have been better. He was certain that Allied airpower and surface ships would have destroyed any German forces BUT he forgot that surface ships could not fire upon the German units if they had closed with the Allied units and airpower would have been equally dangerous to both Axis AND allied forces if the panzers had been sent in straight away. Yes, it would have been costly but the Allies would have lost at least 2-3 beaches and the likelihood of them forming a beachhead would have been more and more unlikely as the days passed.
The 21. Pz Div had managed to manoeuvre a Battn of Pz Grenadiers around the Brit 3. & 5. Parachute Brigades and the 100.Pz Regt also [but the 100.Pz Regt was composed of old French early war 2-man tanks so could not be considered much use against any form of Allied armour]. But these units were almost cut off when 260 Brit gliders carrying 30 light tanks and much of the Brit 6. Airlanding Brigade landed almost behind the German units and without support they would have been decimated as British units were making their way up from the Normandy 'Sword' beaches, along the Orne River and about to link up with the 5. Para Brigade holding that bridge from 21. Pz Div to halt its progress from attacking the British units landing on the beaches.
By the time Hitler had woken up, though, it was already too late to do anything as Allied jabos forced the panzers of the 21. Pz Regt into tree cover and had lost several panzers from airstrikes and/or surface ships gunnery.
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Had Field Marshall Rommel been given free hand or for that was the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in France than D-Day would have been a complete failure for the Allies and that the Allies would have been thrown back to the Sea thus the complete failure of D-Day. And thus the History and the present would have been different as of now.
Hitler big mistake was you snooze you loose..
@@anthonyramos3583 MAYBE HITLER DID NOT SLEEP AND WAS sataisfied with tHE DEFAET AS PLANNED LANG BEFORE woII STARTED
Admirable.. RIP
What a brave man. And a very honourable and chivalrous one as well.
The greatest soldier that ever set foot on a modern day battlefield.
A great presentation of actually what had happened.No dramas.Shortly after a while he was given a choice to take his own life and he did it.
Winston Churchill gave tribute to Rommel as a great general.
1:44 like the gentleman-like gesture.
What a nice big house he had.
A professional soldier with Honour and history will remember this.
It was painful for a dedicated Field Marshall and patriot servent to be not dying in battlefield .
The winner despite Defeat is known as legend...... Salute to the legendary Field Marshall Rommel who was respected by his Enemies..............
A true real soldier loved by his soldiers and NOT a Nazi
No, but he was loyal to them and supported their terrible war (and crimes), so ...
@@KR-jt4ut Shut up if you know nothing about History lmao
@@tiagomonteiro130 you don't seem to have any argument .... Rommel = German General. German army = fighting for Hitler and his criminal Government. Rommel = important player in this war of agression. OK?
@@KR-jt4ut Lmao that's your Argument German Soldiers = Evil you just ignor the fact that Erwin disobeyed Hitler freed prisoners never joined the Party and was honored and respected by the allies you just don't like Germans you don't care about History as long as you have the chance to hate on them lmao there are so many good German Soldiers like Franz Stigler and Josef Gangl
Erwin Rommel is one of the most misrepresented figures in history. Frequently used as the "good" German general, this narrative is a distortion of history that ignores among others, the treatment of Jews in North Africa as well as Rommel's role in Italy.
Rommel was an ardent Nazi. But even before that he was known as an enemy of democracy and the republican order. In 1920 he was supportive of the Kapp Putsch, an attempt by extreme right-wing German Freikorps to overthrow the Republic and establish an extreme right-wing dictatorship in Germany. Commanding a security battalion of the Reichswehr in the town of Schwäbisch Gmund, he violated the oath he had sworn only recently to the Republic by ordering his troops to violently suppress a demonstration staged by workers in opposition to the attempted Kapp Putsch. While it didn't come so far that his troops fired live ammunition on the demonstration, they brutally beat and used a fire hose against a peaceful demonstration against an attempt to violently overthrow democratic order. [Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg (Hg.): Mythos Rommel. Katalog zur Sonderausstellung 18. Dezember 2008 bis 30. August 2009, Stuttgart 2009, p. 35.]
Later after the take over of power by the Nazis, he developed strong political sympathies and a close working relationship with Hitler, coming so far as to become Hitler's favorite general. It is unsurprising that Goebbels wrote in his diary in 1942 that Rommel "is not only politically close to National Socialism, he is a Nationalsocialist." [Elke Fröhlich (ed.): Die Tagebücher des Joseph Goebbels, München u. a. 1987-2001, II. 4, 01.10.1942, p. 38.]
Already during his command in France we see several episodes of him committing what classified as a war crime under the Hague Conventions. At some point he ordered civilian houses to be burned in order to use the smoke to advance his troops over the river Maas. This is a case where it could be arguable that it is within the lines of the Hague Conventions since they only forbid the "wanton destruction of an enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war”. Whether this was necessitated by war is arguable but it nonetheless points in a problematic direction. On a second occasion, he ordered his troops to pretend they were surrendering in order to be able to advance closely on French positions and then shoot the French soldiers who had prepared to take them into custody. This is a clear violation of the Hague Rules on what they refer to as "perfidy" and constitutes a war crime. [both of these episodes are relayed in rather glorifying terms in the German version of Irving's Rommel biography, p. 61ff.]
Concerning his time in Libya, the research situation is difficult but it is clear that upon entering the town of Benghazi, Wehrmacht soldiers of the Afrika Korps took part in a pogrom against the Jews of Benghazi that left 67 people dead. Similarly, newer research has uncovered that the Wehrmacht sent advisors to the Italians for the deportation of Libyan Jews to Italy as well as for the construction of concentration camps in Libya, the most famous being Jado and Benghazi where over 600 Jews died due to poor conditions.
A question that still remains open is what role Rommel played in the execution of over 500 POWs of mostly Austrian and German origin from the British Jewish brigade. While it is true that Rommel did not relay the order from Berlin to execute German and Austrian members of the French Foreign Legion, who had been political opponents of Nazi Germany, when the Germans caught them, the issue of the Jewish POWs and his role in said executions remains shadowy. [Wolfgang Proske: „Ich bin nicht beteiligt am Attentat“: Erwin Rommel, in: Proske. (ed.): Täter Helfer Trittbrettfahrer. NS-Belastete von der Ostalb, Münster/Ulm 2010, S. 207ff.; Maurice M. Roumani,: The Jews of Libya. Coexistence, Persecution, Resettlement. Brighton/Portland (UK) 2009, p. 34-35].
In Tunisia, the situation is more clear. Here Rommel collaborated closely with the Einsatzgruppe North Africa under Walter Rauff of gas van fame. Rommel worked closely with Rauff in using Jewish forced laborers to build fortifications for the German army and in constructing over 30 concentration camps in Tunisia where more than 2500 Jews perished during the German presence there. Furthermore on July 20, 1942 Rommel issued instructions to Rauff and his Einsatzgruppe that once the Germans had conquered Palestine, it would be the Einsatzgruppe's task to kill the Jews of Palestine. [Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers: "Beseitigung der jüdisch-nationalen Heimstätte in Palästina." Das Einsatzkommando bei der Panzerarmee Afrika 1942. In: Jürgen Matthäus und Klaus-Michael Mallmann (ed.): Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart, Darmstadt 2006, p. 153-176]
Also, he allowed a Judenrat to be established in Tunis and watched on when Wehrmacht soldiers plundered Jewish Ghettos in towns like Tunis and Susse. [Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers: Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina, Darmstadt 2007, p. 137f; published in English as "Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews of Palestine", New York 2009].
In 1943 he was responsible for preparing the German measures in Italy after Mussolini had been deposed following the Allied landing in Italy. There Rommel issued several orders on which the brutality with which the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans were treated. On September 23 after Mussolini had been deposed and Badoglio had negotiated an Italian armistice with the Allies, Rommel issued an order to his troops stating:
Sentimentality concerning the Badoglio following gangs [Banden, Nazi German dictum for Partisans and other irregular resistance indicating criminality] in the uniforms of the former ally is misplaced. Whoever fights against the German soldier has lost any right to be treated well and shall experience toughness reserved for the rabble which betrays friends. Every member of the German troop has to adopt this stance.
This order was the basis for several brutal acts in disarming the members of the Italian army captured by the Germans. Summary executions and hangings were common in order to make an example and force their fellow soldiers to give up their weapons willingly. This too was a clear war crime. Furthermore, the disarmed Italian soldiers were not be treated as POWs. They received a special status that was called "Military Interned" which indicated worse treatment.
[The Orders can be found in the German Bundesarchiv, Militärarchiv Freiburg, RM 7/1333 und RH 27-24/26. They are partially printed in Jürgen Förster: Wehrmacht, Krieg und Holocaust. In: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (ed.): Die Wehrmacht - Mythos und Realität, München 1999, p. 961.].
Now, as for Rommel's involvement in the July 20 plot: While one of Rommel's deputies, Hans Speidel, who had been involved in the July 20 plot, wrote after the war that Rommel was a member of the resistance, there is no evidence that this is accurate. While there is some indication that Rommel would have supported a separate peace with the Western allies in order to continue fighting the Soviet Union, it doesn't go much further than that. From Maurice Remy in his book Mythos Rommel to David Fraser in his biography of Rommel, there is strong consensus that Rommel was not involved in the plot and didn't know about it beforehand. One of the strongest indications of this is a letter to his wife that he wrote that he was shocked by the attempt on Hitler's life and that he thanked God that it didn't succeed.
So, in conclusion, while there is one instance in which he did not relay an order to kill German members of the French Foreign Legion, there is overwhelming evidence that Rommel was involved in and responsible for war crimes, while there is a lack of evidence for his participation in the resistance. The idea that Rommel was a "good German" is a myth and part of the larger overall Clean Wehrmacht myth that is intended to exonerate the members of the German armed forces of their atrocities and crimes.
The best thing I’ve seen so far, but will someone please subtitle this for me please
His son later became Mayor of Stuttgart
It appears that this movie is fabulous; however there's no subtitles for non-German speaking people like myself!
Schader.
Auto translate works but not clear
He gave his life for his family.
Generals Burgdorf and Maisel told Rommel to commit suicide. Burgdorf himself committed suicide in Hitler's bunker... Son Manfred became maire of Stuttgart and became a friend of Patton's son....
Rommel was the greatest general in the world.
A certain Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov has was a very strong contender for that title. His side of course won, not easy to ignore.
RIP
RIP Feldmarschall Rommel ich stehe Stramm
A true hero.
Not at all. I get that taking a shot to glorify a nazi-Germany general is attractive but he fought for the very wrong people/side. Also, he was narcissistic
Subtitles must be there to understand the dialogue
they sure did have the best uniforms
@Camping They didnt design them.
SS-uniforms were designed by SS-men and Wehrmacht-uniforms were the same as the Reichswehr-ones.
Hard to comprehend the 'thoughts' of Field Marshall Romell, on hearing THE NEWS from .. The Two Generals.
"The mind of The Dessert Fox."
An incredible strategist .. !!
I wish they made a movie of his time in WW1 where he did incredible things devastated the Italiens
An outstanding military man the best is matter fact even studied his writings Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Brilliant acting in this clip.
These scene will make real men cry
Thank god there aren’t any subtitles. I can slowly learn German now
Bizarre how Stalin always so plots where there were none and Hitler didn't see them until it blew up next to him..
What I have read from history is that the general was not happy from the war casualties and wisely advice Hitler. But he was killed by the regime and after his death was respected by his enemies for his heroic act
There is a memoir book of a colonel called Hans von luck he talks a lot about Rommel very interesting book.
The two Generals which come to Rommel’s house were Burgdorf and Maisel. The same Burgdorf as in the Downfall movie who is shouted at by Hitler along with Krebs, Keitel and Jodl.
The Field Marshal deserved better.
.... truly an honorable man
A way better funeral than Stalin reserved for his former friends.
Quite
Yep
He was a real Man!
well they certainly won the Fashion war.
Yup. Say what you want about the Nazis but they had some badass uniforms
Wow dude looks just like Rommel
Ruhe in Frieden Wüstenfuchs
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A Great Warrior and tactician, along with another Great Warrior George Patton, both used and then destroyed by the Military they respected, terrible........
And this is why german lost world war 2
Haha. Its already lost in 1944 beginning
The war was lost when Churchill refused to surrender!
German discipline and obedience under the control of demonic madmen. One of history's greatest tragedies, for the entire world.
@H U M A N I T Y Is there a problem? Do you not consider the Nazi administration madmen?
@H U M A N I T Y How?
He chose to take his own life (through a cyanide pill) in order to protect his family from harm. He took that decision there and then. The FM probably had not woken up that morning knowing it would be his last day on earth. Such strength....
Also feel the helplessness of his son. He could have done anything to stop that car..accosted those two SS men, run away with his father and mother. The circumstances were briefly under his control. Yet none of this happened..nobody was mentally prepared for this. This is worse than Stalin's purges.
Name of movie
In reality, Mannfred was well aware that the city had been surrounded by SS soldiers. Hitler dispatched a battalion just in case. There was no escaping or fighting it. Rommel knew all that and had duly briefed his wife and Mannfred. Very sad situation, but Field Marshall Rommel was brave and decisive even in his last moments. What an inspiration!
@@braveheartii1534 Inspiration? What?
Rommel only had one son. He became mayor of Stuttgart.
He fought for his country but not for the Hitler BS.
R.I.P Rommel
My great respect for Field Marshal ..Rommel
Excellent movie and a fine leader.
Name of movie?
He was a brilliant general and a great tactician. Its a petty that ,Hitler ruled germany and had no idea about war plans & tactics.he even never went to war academy.
Very sad end of a great soldier
I wonder why he didnt just flee into Switzerland with wife and son.
He was forced to commit suicide or else threat was his family would be rounded up by SS squad
what happened to his death mask ? it showed his contempt for the Nazis at the end.
Best tank commander ever
I respect general Rommel as it is said a strong enemy is a good friend.
I can’t help but wonder how many German soldiers lost their will to go on because of Ramos’s passing and I’m sure what really really happened permeated it’s three through the German ranks and just undermined their will to go on
The guy playing Rommel looks far more like Von Ribbentropp
Patton + Rommel no cold war.
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Charles Surber
Minus Europeans minus arms sales and armaments factories = no 1st, 2nd, Cold War, Korean, Vietnam, Iraq, Iraq, Syria and most wars.
The people that visited Rommel are Ernst Maisel and Wilhelm Burgdorf.
What's the name of the movie?
Ruhe in Frieden
Devils in worlds best outfits
I need to see this movie now.
A true man with gigantic Balls of steel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could anyone tell me the name of that movie please? Thanks in advance
Rommel
Did everyone miss the karma his first child mother felt the pain of losing him drank poison and after the then wife felt the pain of losing him he took poison damn
That’s an incredible connection, actually. Thank you
what chance of seeing full film in english please
Which car is this??
I demand TRANSLATION!
Sonny Sun it speaks all languages you do not need it translated.
learn german
wow, i did not know that all, but you talk of the good old times
is it all over now?
i hope you have a great time there in Milwaukee and if you like, continue to learn german
good luck und alles gute für dich, mein Freund
Sonny Sun Jawohl!
Sonny Sun
Hi what the name of the film pleaseeeee
The movie is Rommel. It deals with just before Normandy to his death.
What movie is this?
What title of the movie??
Rommel the Desert Fox..well respected and a fair warrior.
Rommel papers excellent reading.
Australia.
English subtitles please
I was at the wolf's lair in 1994 , I'm a cousin of col gen Ludwig Beck , I had seen Sam Rommel as a descendant of the field Marshall Rommel , if you wish to contact via FB please do @ Joe Oriente Jr or Joe Oriente.
Rommel was one of the best ,period