His sister described him as a quiet gentle and shy child. Rommel developed an interest for math he built a full sized glider took apart a motorcycle and put it back together . He did not have good enough grades for university so he joined the military
2) Rommel was injured multiple times in both wars
Taking part in dangerous raids his group capture 900,000 italian soldiers in a 52 hour period. Rommel ran out of amunition and charged at three french soldiers with a bayonet. And got shot two times in Romania. During the second world war he aquired a face injury from a fragment of a shell
3) He was an early admirer of hitler
Allthough he was never registerd for the nazi party he appeared at multiple rallies and signed off letters with seig heil . However this topic is debatable because after a while he realised hitler was delusional and regreted it .
4) he disobeyed direct orders
Hitler wanted the troops to keep fighting till death however Rommel encouraged the soldiers not to in Africa he did the exact same thing . He saved the germans from multiple casualties in. Africa
5) Rommel secured coastal defences before D-day
He insited on coastal defense even though many officials dissagreed with him it happened but on one side making it a major losss.
6)He probably never knew the plot to kill hitler
When the war started to go badly some Germany some soldiers conspired a assasination plot againts hitler since rommel was friends with some of the conspirators he was blamed
7). Rommel and allied leaders never hesitated to compliment eachother
He was complimented by churchil and patton he was called clever and a beautyfull bastard he said some things about patton calling him a clever apponent
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