Winston Churchill once said “We have, a daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say, across the havoc of war, a great general.” Churchill was always fond of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his abilities as a leader, as seen by his previous words. Giving praise to a general of enemy’s forces is relatively unheard of, especially when this general is threatening the safety of your country. This just goes to show how truly great Rommel was. He was an unorthodox leader; he was always at the center of the conflict. He would push through enemy forces at full speed. He wasn’t concerned with the danger exposed to his flanks when he did this; he felt the enemy would be too confused to fight back in this situation. These tactics proved to be very successful for Rommel.
Field Marshall Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel was born on the 15th of November 1891 in the small town of Heidenheim, near the city of Ulm, Germany. He was the second son born to Professor Erwin Rommel, a schoolmaster. His elder brother, Manfred, died in infancy. He also had two younger brothers and one sister. Their father died in 1913 after an operation, making Erwin the man of the house at the age of twenty-two.
When Erwin turned 18 he had aspired to join his f
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It was with this battalion that Rommel’s military carrer really took off. At Bleid in 1914, at Argonne in 1915, the capture of villages in Romania in 1917, as well as the taking of fortifications in 1917, he used the same tactics: a stealthy approach finished off with rapid attacks with guns blazing. Rommel arrived there on the 15th of February 1940. Up to this point in the war Rommel’s division had 94 casualties, while the French losses (to the 7th Panzer Division) amounted to around 10,000 prisoners, 100 tanks, as well as many guns and armoured vehicles. In the end, ten of the French soldiers were dead, and the other ten took refuge in a nearby farm building. Due to the success of the British in cracking the Enigma coding machine, they knew exactly where the Germans were and the RAF launched an aerial strike. On the 26th of January 1942, hidden within a sandstorm, the German forces launched an offensive against the town of Benghazi. This move was to catch the British off guard, as well as to prevent a retreat of British forces. This tactic is part of the reason he was able to capture many prisoners while preventing unnecessary deaths on both sides. In May 1940, Rommel was back on the battlefields.
On the 20th of July 1944, the infamous attempt on Hitler’s life occurred. Rommel, who had been sick for weeks at this point, returned to Germany on the 23rd of September for medical treatment. On May 26th, the Germans launched an assault on the British stronghold of Tobruk. He demonstrated these characteristics during the First World War while with the 7th Company of the Wurttemberg Regiment.
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