41. The Life and Death of the Desert Fox

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

No German military leader of World War Two has a greater reputation than Erwin Rommel. Such was his perceived threat to Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy that on October 14th, 1944, he was pushed to commit suicide rather than face a trial for alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate the Führer.

Seventy five years on from his death James Holland and Al Murray assess Rommel’s war time record and debate the truth of his reputation as an apolitical and decent man.

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0:00.0	A Tansion, a Tansion.
0:09.0	Come on, it's not that hard.
0:10.0	No, that's really not easy.
0:11.0	That's not, I'm easy.
0:12.0	Yeah, that's, of course, Haitian Creole for our two.
0:15.0	But, what relevance is this to a podcast about World War Two or you, Crike?
0:19.0	Well, I didn't know.
0:21.0	Didn't you know?
0:22.0	Hey, didn't you know that after initially staying neutral, Haiti actually joined the conflict
0:27.0	following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
0:29.0	He declared war in Japan, I bet that put the Willys up Japan.
0:32.0	He declared war in Japan initially then, Germany and Italy, four days later, then Bulgaria,
0:36.0	Hungary and Romania, a couple of weeks later still.
0:39.0	Only Romania bothered to declare war back.
0:42.0	How insulting is that?
0:44.0	That is really, really.
0:46.0	Incredibly insulting.
0:48.0	Now, as ever, James Holland, History and Extraordinary is with me.
0:52.0	Stop it.
0:53.0	And we've got you in the country, you're not off in some sort of, you know, Nazi-lair.
0:58.0	Actually, I don't think I've got to tell you about it.
1:01.0	It's Montiel Tutsi.
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