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Rommel (btw: he was a very short man, hi) was really regarded as
a very clever one and with a high reputation even to the enemies.
His way how to treat prisoners found great attention.
The reason why he could not go to "Suez" was the lack of new
materials, the Brits had the strong air- and naval forces in the
Mediteranian.
That was the reason of the (did you tell me, you have been a
parachute? So you shall know the story) battle of the Island of
Crete, the ever-strongest battle of the use of airborne attaque.
With high loss of men as well but even that was really "admired"
by the enemies.
With the follow that Hitler e.c. ordered: "never again such a
losly airbore mission" whilst Churchill took it in consideration
to his parachute-forces..
Rommel was called the "desert fox" due to his tricks. So e.g.
whilst the battle of El Alamain (I hope I am right with the
place) he orderd a smaller detachmet of military trucks far
distant to pull woolen blancetts and resulting BIG clouds of
dust. The allied forces believed the expected battle whilst
Rommel had been on another place.
After the fall of Crete nothing really had ben wun due to the
Island of Malta which was with all its caves an "unsinkable
aircraftcarrier" They bombed and bombed it but could not manage
to knock it down. From there the Allies controlled the
Medeteranian
Rommel later was one in the row of the rebbelling generals
(Staufenberg and other) who tried to kill Hitler with a bomb and
he was forced to commit suiccede.
Whilst the "D-Day" he should have been the commander of the
Germans but was in hospital due to a nose-tuberculoses.
One interesting story was told to me by a British ham friend who
served in the "field intellegience":
The Brits and US-forces did realize very quick the
preparation of the "moving" of German forces. Reason:
normally if in the camp the Germans did use dipoles for the
radio but if they dismantled it for the move they worked out
a speciall amoured radio car (an amazing one, had two
drivers, one in the front and one in the rear. It also was
used as an reconnaisance vehicle. So if they came too close
to the enemy then they had not to turn around, just
switching the gear from front to rear and the second driver
just managed the excape, hi)
Well back to the radio, the Brits simply recognized the
change for "horizontal to vertical", a typical sign of the
begin of moving out.
All the very best
Klaus
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