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Apr 15, 2006 · With Yvonne Furneaux, Paul Gustavson, Stephan Jacobs, Steve Phillips. How Field Marshal Erwin Rommel became implicated in the July 20, 1944 officers' plot against Hitler. A morality tale highlighting the dilemma of the modern soldier forced to choose between obeying orders and following his conscience.
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- Documentary
- Nicholas Natteau
- 2006-04-15
- Erwin Rommel Becomes The “Desert Fox” in North Africa
- Rommel Breaks with Hitler
- The “Operation Valkyrie” Assassination Plot Gone Awry
- Death of The Desert Fox
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was born on Nov. 15, 1891, to a humble family in southern Germany. Serving his country would become the center of his life as he joined the local Infantry Regiment at 18. By the time Hitler came into power, Rommel had already established himself as a formidable war hero. He’d won the Iron Cross in Wolrd War I and with it...
Rommel was in the war room when word reached Hitler that the Allies were planning an all-out assault on Normandy’s beaches. Rommel wanted to move the full force of the army into position to meet them and create an “Atlantic Wall” that would take the Allies head-on as soon as they landed. But Hitler turned him down. For the first months of planning,...
Though Rommel didn’t want to kill Hitler, he was convinced that if Hitler died he would become a martyr and a hero for a darker German cause. His plan was thus to wait until the Allies had retaken France and then arrest Hitler and make peace with the attacking army. The plan went into crisis mode, though, when on July 17, 1944, a Royal Canadian Air...
Hitler’s private secretary, Martin Bormann, sent him a report on Sept. 27, 1944 in which the details of his assassination plot were revealed. “Field Marshal Rommel was quite in the picture; Rommel has stated that he would be available to the new government after a successful assassination,” the report read. One of the arrested men muttered Rommel’s...
Nov 1, 2012 · Rommel was forced to commit suicide in 1944 after Hitler suspected the general of being linked to the July 1944 plot to kill him, though historians disagree about how close he was to the...
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This reevaluation has produced new interpretations of Rommel, including his relationship with Nazism, his abilities as an operational and strategic level commander, and his role in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler.
Synopsis. How Field Marshal Erwin Rommel became implicated in the July 20, 1944 officers' plot against Hitler. A morality tale highlighting the dilemma of the modern soldier forced to choose...
Nov 22, 2012 · He was linked to the July 20th plot to kill Hitler and was forced to take poison in order to protect his family from repercussions from a potential show trial. The Nazis were then able to portray his death as from battle injuries and save face.
1939 | War in Europe. THE FILM: Narrated by Greg Kinnear. Germany’s most famous commander of World War II, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, had one fatal flaw: He always spoke his mind to Adolf Hitler. Rommel would pay for voicing the truth to his Fuhrer with his life.
