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206. Battleground '44 - Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox

Battleground

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of Battleground '44 Saul and Patrick explore the story of Nazi Germany's most famous General - Erwin Rommel. Nicknamed the Desert Fox due to his successful exploits in North Africa, he soon became a favourite of Hitler. But by October 1944, all that had changed with the fallout from the failed bomb plot to kill Hitler placing Rommel under suspicion of treason. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Our subject today is field marshal Johannes Erwin Rommel, who died by his own hand 80 years ago,

1:25.7

forced to take cyanide after being implicated in the July 20 plot to kill

1:30.5

Hitler. Romel, of course, was famous as the Wiston-Fuchs, a desert fox, a hero in Germany,

1:37.1

who seemed to be held in almost equal esteem by those he was fighting. The British general,

1:42.2

Claude Alkinleck, who was bested by Romel in North Africa

1:45.4

in the summer of 1942, called him a Superman with supernatural powers. Romul also came to be

1:52.4

regarded as the acceptable face of the Vermeckt, who in North Africa fought what he himself

1:58.4

called a war without hate, So he was supposedly a good German

2:02.8

whose chivalrous conduct stood in sharp contrast

2:06.2

to the savagery of the Nazis.

2:09.4

Well, how good a general was Rommel

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