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00:00En el 15 de febrero de 1941, un ejército de guerra en Tripoli, Libia.
00:09El comandante estaba a ser famosa.
00:30El comandante estaba a ser famosa.
01:00Goebbels wanted to make him into a folk hero, but he wasn't easy to get close to.
01:09I first encountered Rommel coming out of no man's land.
01:14He suddenly appeared.
01:16He was, how should I put it, not very friendly.
01:22And so whenever I saw Rommel, when I got back to my driver,
01:26I said to him, drive that way, that way, so we don't meet him.
01:35Images for the newsreel were supposed to show that he was one of them.
01:42But the official propaganda was misleading.
01:50Rommel was not popular.
01:56You will be shocked, but it's the truth.
02:01I can only say the opposite.
02:04When Rommel arrived somewhere,
02:08every soldier and even some officers hid.
02:13It was a punishment to have to report to Rommel.
02:19Rommel always pushed himself to the limit.
02:22Soldiers used to say that in battle he was always on the front line.
02:25That could mean losing a sense of perspective.
02:27At the most critical times,
02:32everyone was, of course, living on adrenaline.
02:35And Rommel sometimes just lost it.
02:38He would then suddenly turn up directing traffic in Benghazi
02:41or commanding retreating troops,
02:44which, of course, many other officers could have done instead of him.
02:50So was he a military genius or just a run-of-the-mill officer?
02:54Based on my own limited experience,
03:02I'm convinced that in this last war,
03:06there was a large number of German generals
03:08who could have done a similar job to Rommel's
03:12or perhaps even better.
03:16In spite of this,
03:17he became the most popular German general of the Second World War
03:21and a legend.
03:22Rommel was born on November the 15th, 1891,
03:27at Heidenheim-ander-Brentz.
03:29He was the third of five children.
03:35His parents were Helena and Erwin,
03:38who was a headmaster.
03:41He was christened Johannes Erwin Eugen.
03:44As a boy, he was deeply impressed by the Zeppelin works at Lake Constance
03:51and wanted to become an aircraft engineer.
03:54But his father sent him to join the army.
03:57By the age of 20, he was a lieutenant.
04:01Rommel trained infantry cadets in Weingarten,
04:03a small town in southern Germany.
04:05The young officer had a girlfriend,
04:09Walburga Stemme.
04:10In 1913, she got pregnant.
04:14He wrote Walburga, my grandmother,
04:17a letter when she was pregnant
04:18and said to her that he was saving to pay off all his debts.
04:23And then they could get a little home together.
04:28And it all had to be perfect, he wrote.
04:31He called her my little mama.
04:33In December 1913,
04:38an illegitimate daughter was born, Gertrude.
04:41The officer had to choose
04:42between his military career and marriage.
04:46Two months after his letter,
04:48when he said they would get the flat
04:49and they would stay together,
04:51two or three months later,
04:53she got another letter
04:54explaining that he couldn't marry her.
04:59In August 1914,
05:01the First World War had begun.
05:03Rommel wrote to his sister.
05:06If I die, I have only one wish,
05:08and that is to know
05:08that poor Trudel and Walburga are looked after.
05:11I love them more than I love myself,
05:13and I want to make up
05:14for what I have done wrong before.
05:21Rommel became a fighter.
05:23He was always in the thick of things
05:25and was wounded many times.
05:26He was promoted and decorated.
05:28In October 1917,
05:32he was at the Isonzo Front in Italy.
05:34The highest German medal,
05:36Pour le Merite,
05:37had been reserved for the capture
05:38of Mount Matadur.
05:40Rommel wanted it.
05:42At the head of his men,
05:43he stormed to the top of the Matadur,
05:45but somebody else got the medal.
05:49Rommel felt robbed of his prize.
05:51He handed in a complaint.
05:56He had to wait for weeks
05:57before hearing that it had been upheld.
06:00The fear of being overlooked
06:01would pursue him all his life.
06:05Before the war ended,
06:07Rommel had married another woman,
06:08a former girlfriend,
06:10Lucy Mollen.
06:10After the defeat
06:15and the Treaty of Versailles,
06:16the German army
06:17was limited to 100,000 men.
06:20It was a bad time
06:21to be a soldier.
06:24Rommel gave up thoughts
06:25of a glorious career
06:26and opted for service
06:27at a provincial garrison
06:29instead of general staff training.
06:31He wanted to be with the troops.
06:34In 1929,
06:35he became a lecturer
06:36at the Infantry Training School
06:37in Dresden.
06:38One of Rommel's pupils
06:44remembers his classes.
06:49I'll just give one example.
06:51It was in the French campaign.
06:53There was a house
06:54on an occupied hill
06:55and it had a barn
06:56and there were a load
06:57of Frenchmen there
06:58shooting like mad
07:00just as Rommel wanted to attack.
07:02But the artillery said
07:03they'd got to take this hill.
07:05They needed it
07:06as an observation post.
07:07So Rommel was given
07:09the order to take the hill.
07:11But he said to himself,
07:12if I attack,
07:13the losses will be colossal.
07:15Then he said to us,
07:16so what would you have done?
07:18So we started to talk
07:19about how he would have
07:20built covering fires,
07:22et cetera, et cetera.
07:23And afterwards,
07:24we asked him,
07:25what did you do?
07:27He said,
07:28I crept up with my pistol
07:30and shot at the barn
07:31with flares.
07:32It burned,
07:33the French disappeared
07:34and we were in.
07:38Rommel now had a son
07:39and retreated
07:40into his private life.
07:44Soldiers like him
07:44were no longer needed.
07:48He was an innate man
07:49of action,
07:51brimming with ideas,
07:52with the flexibility
07:53of a fox.
07:55But he was not a fox
07:56in personality terms
07:58at all.
08:01Hitler seized power
08:02on the 30th of January,
08:031933.
08:04Hitler seized power
08:05on the 30th of January,
08:071933.
08:08It was the end
08:21of democracy.
08:26Army officers
08:28had been consciously
08:29kept apolitical.
08:31We kept out of politics.
08:34We were not allowed
08:36to express ourselves
08:37politically in any way
08:38or to be involved
08:40in politics
08:40at all.
08:43And so when the change
08:44of government,
08:45if you can call it that,
08:46took place
08:47on the 30th of January,
08:491933,
08:50we felt more like observers
08:54than people affected by it.
09:00Hitler courted
09:01these observers.
09:02In Potsdam,
09:03the cradle of military Prussia,
09:04Hitler,
09:05a corporal in the war,
09:06paid his respects
09:07to Hindenburg,
09:08the former headman,
09:08head of army command.
09:10Rommel enjoyed that.
09:11For 14 long years,
09:13he hadn't had any promotion.
09:17You have to imagine,
09:18these army officers
09:19have been fiddling around
09:21with cardboard tanks
09:22and wooden rifles
09:23for more than a decade.
09:26Now, suddenly,
09:27here was someone
09:28who said,
09:29that's enough,
09:30put the toys away.
09:32You're going to get
09:33proper rifles,
09:35proper pistols,
09:35and proper tanks now.
09:38I can understand
09:39that a man
09:40who was an officer
09:41of conviction
09:42would be carried along
09:43and enthused by this.
09:48On the 14th of September,
09:501934,
09:51Hitler attended
09:52the Harvest Festival
09:53in Goslar.
09:54The newly appointed
10:05head of the garrison,
10:07Erwin Rommel,
10:07presented his troops.
10:09It was the first time
10:10he'd met Hitler
10:11in person.
10:11Hitler didn't notice
10:26Rommel.
10:28But what did Rommel
10:29think of Hitler?
10:33My father
10:33and my mother
10:35were deeply impressed
10:38by the successes
10:39at home and abroad.
10:40Of course,
10:41they were fake.
10:45Hitler just printed money
10:47and pretended
10:47to be a miracle worker.
10:49But at the time,
10:50people didn't see through it.
10:53Also,
10:54Hitler gave the impression
10:55of being on the side
10:56of the military,
10:57and they liked that too.
11:00So,
11:01I can't say
11:01that in the years
11:021933,
11:041934,
11:04and 1935,
11:05my father understood
11:07Hitler's true nature.
11:08Not at all.
11:10If that had been the case,
11:13then his behavior
11:13would not have been
11:14at all explicable.
11:18Rommel was promoted.
11:20He became lecturer
11:21in tactical warfare
11:22at the military academy
11:23in Potsdam.
11:25He published a textbook
11:27of his experiences
11:28in the First World War.
11:30The attack on Mount Matadur
11:31became a bestseller.
11:32Rommel was promoted again.
11:34In 1938,
11:35after the Anschluss
11:36with Austria,
11:37Rommel was promoted again.
11:39He became head
11:39of the military academy
11:40in Wiener Neustadt.
11:43The terrible aspect
11:44of the regime
11:45had become apparent
11:46here, too.
11:53Sadly,
11:53like many others,
11:55my father considered
11:56the whole Jewish issue
11:57to be something negative.
12:00Certainly something negative,
12:02but also something
12:03that was eclipsed
12:04by all the other achievements.
12:08Hitler marched
12:09into Czechoslovakia
12:11in March 1939.
12:14Rommel was appointed
12:14commander
12:15of Hitler's headquarters.
12:16It was more a question
12:17of appearances
12:18than for military reasons.
12:20For a short while,
12:21Rommel belonged
12:22to Hitler's
12:22most intimate circle.
12:24Did he know
12:25that Hitler planned war?
12:28My mother always said
12:30that when my father
12:31left for the Führer's
12:32headquarters in 1939,
12:34he was still saying,
12:35as long as my generation
12:37who experienced
12:38the World War
12:38are still around,
12:40you can be sure
12:40that there won't be a second.
12:44Rommel was wrong.
12:46On the 1st of September,
12:471939,
12:48Poland was attacked.
12:52Rommel had been promoted
12:53to Major General.
12:54He was responsible
12:55for Hitler's security.
12:57Now he got to know
12:58the dictator better.
12:59He wrote to his wife.
13:02I'm often with the Führer,
13:04even at the most
13:05confidential meetings.
13:07This trust brings me
13:08the greatest happiness,
13:10more so than my rank
13:11of general.
13:15In the evenings,
13:16there's always a long
13:17progress meeting
13:18that I take part in
13:19and I'm sometimes
13:19asked for my opinion.
13:20It is wonderful
13:22to witness the clarity
13:23in his treatment
13:24of problems.
13:28Last night,
13:29I was allowed
13:30to sit next to him.
13:31Soldiers are at last
13:33valued again.
13:36Rommel revered
13:37the dictator.
13:40Hitler liked Rommel, too.
13:41He didn't display
13:42the usual arrogance
13:43of the general staff.
13:45Rommel was different
13:45from most officers.
13:47He was self-taught
13:47and a man of action,
13:49just like Hitler.
13:52Rommel was given
13:52a tank division,
13:53which was unusual
13:54for an infantryman.
13:55This was a mark
13:56of Hitler's favor.
13:58When France was invaded,
14:00Rommel was able
14:00to prove himself.
14:02Just as he'd done
14:03in World War I,
14:04he stormed through
14:05the country
14:05at the head
14:06of his troops.
14:06I was in the same army,
14:10in the 4th,
14:11and we heard
14:12about Rommel.
14:14Some sergeant major
14:15said to me,
14:16there's this mad
14:17divisional commander.
14:18He just rushes forward
14:20without any cover
14:21on the left or right,
14:22and yet he's successful.
14:24And that was
14:24the Gespenster division.
14:25We only learned
14:26later on
14:27that it was Rommel.
14:30On the 18th of June,
14:311940,
14:32when France capitulated,
14:34Mussolini came to Munich.
14:36Only one week before,
14:38he had declared war
14:39on France and England.
14:41Now Il Duce
14:42belonged to the victors,
14:43and he wanted more.
14:48Libya was then
14:49an Italian colony.
14:51In September,
14:52Mussolini's soldiers
14:53in Libya
14:53attacked British forces
14:54in Egypt.
15:00The Desert War
15:02began.
15:06The offensive lasted
15:08only 90 kilometres.
15:10There were no reinforcements.
15:12The Italian forces
15:13were exhausted.
15:15And then when Mussolini
15:17declared war on us,
15:18we saw this
15:19as a traitorous act,
15:21that when Britain
15:22was down,
15:24and obviously losing
15:25the war,
15:26that Italy would come in
15:27like we described
15:28him as a payard dog,
15:30a scavenger,
15:31to win what he could
15:34when we were
15:35on our knees.
15:36And we decided
15:37there and then
15:38that he wouldn't,
15:39that he'd pay.
15:39So this was the attitude
15:40we went in,
15:41that this was an act
15:43of traitorism
15:44by Mussolini
15:46and the Italian people.
15:49And so we had
15:50a debt to pay,
15:51and we'd make them pay,
15:52and we did.
15:56In December,
15:57the British forces
15:58in Egypt started
15:59to fight back.
16:09Within eight weeks,
16:10the Italian army
16:11in Libya was destroyed.
16:14The colony
16:14appeared to be lost.
16:18Mussolini asked
16:19his ally for help.
16:22An unconventional man
16:23was needed
16:24for the Desert War,
16:25Rommel.
16:26Hitler described him
16:27as the most daring
16:28tank general
16:29in the German army.
16:32Rommel was sent
16:33from occupied France
16:34to North Africa.
16:35It was the opportunity
16:36of a lifetime.
16:39I said to him
16:42at that time,
16:43Sir,
16:44I have read
16:45that you find
16:46two things
16:47in the desert.
16:48First God,
16:50then revolution.
16:53Rommel replied,
16:55Schmuckler,
16:56perhaps I will find
16:58both.
17:00The first German
17:01tanks rolled
17:02into Tripoli,
17:03capital of Libya,
17:04on the 12th of March,
17:051941.
17:10Rommel,
17:11now the commander
17:11of the German forces
17:12in Africa,
17:13came down
17:14to the docks himself.
17:19His task
17:20was to halt
17:21the British advance,
17:22but Rommel
17:23had bigger plans.
17:24Heins Werner Schmidt,
17:27a young lieutenant,
17:28was also at the docks.
17:30He was an observer
17:31in the Italian colony
17:32of Eritrea
17:33in East Africa.
17:34Rommel looked at me
17:37and then spoke to me.
17:40He wanted to know
17:41what conditions
17:41were like down there.
17:43I told him the truth
17:44as I saw it.
17:47After all,
17:47I had been there
17:48only 24 hours before.
17:50I told him
17:51that as far
17:51as I could judge,
17:52we could not achieve
17:53anything militarily.
17:57He said,
17:58Lieutenant,
17:58what do you know?
17:59We will push them
18:01back to the Suez Canal
18:02and then turn right.
18:05You are dismissed.
18:07Rommel resorted
18:08to cunning
18:09to simulate strength.
18:12He told the tank drivers
18:13to drive round the block
18:14and then line up again
18:16in the parade.
18:18And then I noticed
18:19that something was wrong
18:20with a chain link
18:21on one tank.
18:22I thought,
18:23good God,
18:23they could have got it repaired.
18:26And then a bit later,
18:26I saw the same problem again.
18:28Then I realized
18:29what was going on.
18:31I thought,
18:31God,
18:32haven't I already
18:32seen that tank?
18:36Rommel sent his soldiers
18:37straight from the parade
18:38into the desert
18:39to fight the British.
18:44In the desert,
18:45you saw mile after mile
18:46of dust
18:47blown about in the air.
18:49And even when you
18:50couldn't make out
18:51any troops,
18:51you always saw
18:53masses of dust.
18:55Rommel invented
18:56the following.
18:57At the back
18:58of a Volkswagen,
18:59he put a little motor
19:00with a propeller
19:01that created clouds
19:02of dust.
19:04He sent off
19:04three adapted Volkswagens
19:06into the desert
19:07and enemy reconnaissance
19:09thought it was
19:09a whole regiment.
19:13What Rommel didn't know
19:15was that this trick
19:16was in vain.
19:19The British troops
19:20were being transferred
19:21to Greece.
19:22Finally,
19:22after 900 kilometers,
19:24the first clash
19:25with the enemy
19:25took place
19:26at the desert fort
19:27Ella Geiler.
19:35Lieutenant Winrich Baer
19:36led the shock troops.
19:39I went off on foot
19:40with a small detachment
19:41along the beach.
19:43It was night.
19:45We took this fort,
19:46but it soon became clear
19:47that apart from hundreds
19:48of thousands of fleas,
19:50there was not one
19:51single British soldier there.
19:52They only turned up
19:56in the morning mist
19:57with a few reconnaissance vehicles.
20:00So we got them,
20:02knocked them out,
20:03and that was it.
20:08Lieutenant Baer
20:09had his camera with him.
20:11These are his pictures
20:12of the Battle of Ella Geiler.
20:17And that was the first
20:18big encounter
20:19with the English.
20:20And because it had
20:22a certain strategic importance,
20:24the silly little story
20:26appeared in the German press.
20:28And Fort Ella Geiler,
20:30according to press reports,
20:32was like a Verdun
20:33or something.
20:34And we were supposed
20:35to have fought
20:35a great battle.
20:37In reality,
20:38it was a silly little
20:39children's cowboy
20:40and Indians affair.
20:45Fire on the English
20:46military against Aguila.
20:47General Lieutenant Rommel,
20:52the commanding general
20:53of the German
20:53Afrika Korps,
20:54leads the attack in the
20:55front of the line.
20:55The attack is in the front of the line.
21:03German soldiers
21:04shoot in the front.
21:05The attack is on Aguila.
21:11Rommel appeared
21:12at the center
21:13of the production,
21:14although he didn't
21:14actually fly in
21:15until the following morning.
21:17Rommel himself
21:23was not against
21:26being used increasingly
21:27for propaganda.
21:30If a cameraman
21:30came and took pictures,
21:32he didn't mind.
21:35He didn't mind
21:36being photographed.
21:39Rommel became
21:40the star
21:41of the newsreels.
21:42Rommel would sometimes pose.
21:49If he noticed
21:50a cameraman
21:51who wanted him
21:52in profile,
21:54he would thrust forward
21:55his forceful chin
21:56and hold the pose
21:57for a few seconds
21:58to give the photographer
21:59time.
22:02Now he could no longer
22:03be overlooked.
22:04The myth
22:05was being created.
22:06We actually noticed
22:09it properly
22:10on holiday.
22:11People only wanted
22:12to know about Rommel.
22:14Do you know Rommel?
22:16Did you see Rommel?
22:17It was mad.
22:19Everything was Rommeled.
22:21The following year,
22:27Rommel's victorious journey
22:29was immortalized
22:30on celluloid.
22:55In just two weeks,
22:57Rommel recaptured
22:59Cyrenaica
22:59and advanced
23:00right up
23:01to the Egyptian border.
23:03There was only one place
23:04he couldn't take,
23:06Tobruk.
23:10Now what surprised me
23:11on the 10th of April
23:12when the Germans
23:13made the first attack,
23:15they hadn't really
23:16done any reconnaissance.
23:19The only reconnaissance
23:20they could have done
23:21was with binoculars
23:22and you can't do
23:23good reconnaissance
23:23with binoculars
23:24because you can't
23:25pick out the ground
23:26or what's on the ground.
23:27You can only see
23:28objects on the ground,
23:29you see.
23:29You can't see minefields
23:30and places.
23:33Rommel didn't know
23:34that the Italians
23:35had made Tobruk
23:36into a heavily
23:37protected stronghold.
23:39A hundred and twenty-six
23:40perfectly camouflaged
23:41bunkers,
23:42wire entanglements,
23:44minefields
23:44and tank traps
23:45surrounded the harbour town.
23:47Now the British elite troops
23:51were lying in wait
23:52for Rommel.
23:56Without realising this,
23:58the first German soldiers
23:59pushed forwards
24:00against the stronghold.
24:07And on the 10th of April
24:08they put in an attack
24:09and to our surprise
24:11they attacked along the road.
24:13Now the road
24:15had been ranged
24:17by our artillery
24:18and anti-tank guns
24:19and they advanced
24:21with infantry
24:21and armoured cars
24:22and they ran
24:24into terrible fire.
24:26There was,
24:26first of all,
24:27an artillery engagement
24:28between the artillery
24:29of both sides
24:30but once they advanced
24:32they hadn't a chance.
24:34They lost a lot of men.
24:35Rommel wanted Tobruk
24:42at any price.
24:44General Rommel
24:45landed with his stork
24:46on the front
24:47before Tobruk.
24:53General Rommel
24:55gives the command
24:56to a new attack.
24:59For four days
25:01his soldiers
25:01attacked the fortress
25:02but it was hopeless.
25:05These pictures
25:11showed the battle
25:12for Tobruk.
25:13I felt at times
25:31that with his eagerness
25:33to go on and go on
25:35that he took
25:37unnecessary risks
25:39and of course
25:40people paid the price.
25:44There were terrible losses.
25:471,240 men
25:49dead, wounded
25:50and captured
25:51at Tobruk.
25:53In Berlin
25:54there were increasing
25:55complaints
25:56about the behaviour
25:57of the self-willed general.
25:59He was said
25:59to lack perspective
26:00and to treat his men
26:02harshly,
26:02abruptly
26:03and even slanderously.
26:08I did see him
26:09disregard the presence
26:10of some ordinary
26:11soldiers of a troop.
26:13If he felt
26:14that a certain officer
26:15had not done his duty
26:16then he was quite likely
26:18to give him a good
26:20dressing down
26:21and yell
26:21go back to the barracks
26:24and get the basic
26:25training of a recruit.
26:28And if that is said
26:29to an officer
26:29in front of his
26:30assembled troops
26:31it is quite hard.
26:37In May 1941
26:38the chief of the
26:39general staff
26:40of the army
26:40Franz Halder
26:41tried to get rid
26:42of this mad soldier
26:43as he called him.
26:45Hitler wouldn't hear of it.
26:46For Africa
26:47he needed a man
26:48like Rommel
26:48someone who could achieve
26:50a lot
26:50with limited means.
27:18His whole life
27:23was about
27:23being a soldier.
27:25Beyond a certain point
27:26you couldn't have
27:27a personal talk
27:28with him.
27:30It's presumptuous
27:30of me to say
27:31you couldn't.
27:32But he wouldn't
27:33readily talk
27:34about such things.
27:37Rommel never asked
27:38me about my family
27:40what I do
27:41or whether I'm
27:42a career soldier
27:42or not.
27:45Rommel was only
27:46interested in his war.
27:48His chief of staff
27:52later described him
27:53as an uncompromising
27:54hard and impersonal man.
27:58In spite of everything
28:01his greatness
28:02was recognized
28:03especially by the soldiers
28:04who often saw him
28:07right at the very front.
28:10That makes an impression.
28:14The Italians
28:15weren't used to that.
28:17And so
28:17through his personal
28:18behavior
28:18the men themselves
28:20said
28:20and even the officers
28:22it was worth
28:23putting your back
28:24into it
28:24for someone
28:25like that
28:25who did the same
28:27himself.
28:30Rommel's behavior
28:31was also used
28:32at home
28:33for propaganda.
28:34in Italy
28:37in Italy
28:38if a general arrived
28:47he was always
28:48surrounded
28:48by a huge entourage.
28:52It was as though
28:53a general
28:53was a superior being
28:55you could not
28:55get near to.
28:58But Rommel
28:59you saw
28:59in the thick
29:00of battle
29:00so close
29:04he could get hit
29:04by the same bullet
29:05that gets you.
29:07I'd never seen
29:08anything like it.
29:14Even the enemy
29:15was impressed
29:16by his courage.
29:19When we spoke
29:20about the Italians
29:21we spoke
29:22about the Aitais.
29:23when we spoke
29:25about the Germans
29:26it used to be
29:27the Jerry's
29:28but it very soon
29:30we adopted
29:32the phrase
29:33when we spoke
29:34about the Germans
29:34we just said
29:35Rommel.
29:39At daybreak
29:40on the 18th
29:40of November
29:411941
29:42British troops
29:43broke out
29:43of the Tobruk
29:44stronghold.
29:45This marked
29:46the start
29:46of the British
29:47counter-offensive.
29:51Three weeks later
29:52Rommel
29:53had no choice
29:54but to retreat.
29:57It was
29:57to me
29:57this
29:58decision
29:58was
29:58hard
29:58to
29:59give
30:00the Tobruk
30:00free
30:01to give
30:01that we
30:01have been
30:02over a half
30:02year
30:02and
30:03to
30:04reach
30:05before the
30:05fight.
30:05And
30:06you don't
30:07know
30:07the difficulties
30:08that I had
30:09at the time
30:10that I had
30:11because a
30:12large part
30:12of my
30:12troops
30:13was not
30:13motorized.
30:18Nine months
30:18later
30:18the tank
30:19group
30:19Africa
30:20was back
30:21where its
30:21advance
30:21started.
30:22in
30:22Alagaila.
30:24The German
30:25interlude
30:26in Africa
30:26seemed
30:27to be
30:27over.
30:30The way
30:30in which
30:31he had
30:31completely
30:34routed
30:34the forces
30:36there
30:37and his
30:37first advance
30:38towards
30:38Tobruk
30:39had
30:40of course
30:41made
30:42everybody
30:43think
30:43he was
30:43a remarkable
30:44man
30:44and his
30:46victory
30:48at this
30:48battle
30:49in May
30:50made
30:51everybody
30:52feel
30:55that he
30:55was
30:56a brilliant
30:57commander.
30:59But I don't
31:00remember
31:01people talking
31:02about him
31:03as if he
31:03was some
31:04wunderkind.
31:04on the
31:075th of
31:08January
31:081942
31:09for the
31:10first time
31:10in a
31:10long
31:11while
31:11a sea
31:12convoy
31:12arrived
31:12without
31:13any
31:13losses
31:13bringing
31:14with it
31:1454
31:15new
31:15tanks.
31:17Rommel
31:17again pressed
31:18ahead
31:18successfully.
31:19on the
31:2429th
31:24of
31:24January
31:25Benghazi
31:25was
31:26taken
31:26by
31:26the
31:26Germans
31:27for
31:27the
31:27second
31:27time.
31:30From
31:30a military
31:31viewpoint
31:31it was
31:31an
31:32insignificant
31:32victory
31:33but it
31:34was
31:34urgently
31:34needed
31:34by
31:35Hitler
31:35who
31:35spoke
31:36the
31:36next
31:36day
31:36at
31:37the
31:37Berlin
31:37Sportpalast.
31:49It was
32:03the first
32:04time
32:04that
32:04Hitler
32:05mentioned
32:05him
32:05publicly.
32:07Hitler's
32:07war
32:07of
32:07conquest
32:08in
32:08Russia
32:08had
32:09come
32:09to
32:09a
32:09standstill
32:10so
32:10Rommel's
32:11victory
32:11was
32:11used
32:11to
32:12distract
32:12from
32:12the
32:12disasters
32:13on
32:13the
32:13Eastern
32:14Front.
32:19There
32:25is
32:25no
32:26doubt
32:26that
32:27Rommel
32:27was
32:28exploited
32:29by
32:29Hitler
32:29and
32:30Goebbels
32:31as
32:32a
32:32hero
32:32figure
32:32and
32:34also
32:34that
32:35if
32:36I
32:36may
32:36be
32:37critical
32:37he
32:39did
32:39not
32:39object
32:40to
32:40that
32:40not
32:41understand
32:42that
32:42on
32:45the
32:45flight
32:45of
32:45the
32:45general
32:47oberst
32:47Rommel
32:48is
32:48from
32:48Africa
32:49to
32:49Africa
32:51Dearest
32:51Lou
32:51isn't
32:52it
32:52wonderful
32:53that
32:53I
32:53am
32:53able
32:54to
32:54serve
32:54the
32:54Führer
32:55the
32:55people
32:56and
32:56the
32:56new
32:56idea
32:57your
32:58Erwin
32:59The
33:01Führer
33:02overreicht
33:02General
33:02Oberst
33:03Rommel
33:03as
33:03sixth
33:04officer
33:04of
33:04the
33:04German
33:04Wehrmacht
33:05the
33:05Eichen
33:06Laub
33:06with
33:06swords
33:07to
33:07the
33:07Ritter
33:07Kreuz
33:07of
33:08the
33:08Iron
33:08Kreuz
33:08In
33:12the
33:12East
33:12Hitler
33:13was
33:13waging
33:13a
33:14war
33:14of
33:14annihilation
33:15Rommel
33:17didn't
33:17yet
33:17know
33:17about
33:18the
33:18mass
33:18killings
33:19of
33:19Jewish
33:19men
33:19women
33:20and
33:20children
33:20behind
33:21the
33:21front
33:21His
33:23theater
33:24of
33:24war
33:24was
33:25far
33:25away
33:25There's
33:27one
33:27thing
33:27I
33:27have
33:28to
33:28emphasize
33:29and
33:29I
33:29say
33:29this
33:29with
33:30great
33:30respect
33:30and
33:31great
33:31responsibility
33:32I
33:33never
33:34the
33:34little
33:35I
33:35saw
33:35of
33:36the
33:36Africa
33:36Corps
33:37there
33:38was
33:38never
33:38any
33:39reference
33:39or
33:40any
33:40hint
33:40that
33:42they
33:42were
33:42anti-Jewish
33:44Rommel
33:47was a
33:47soldier
33:48Hitler's
33:49racial
33:49mania
33:49was
33:50something
33:50he
33:50refused
33:50to
33:51accept
33:51in
33:54May
33:54he
33:54started
33:54to
33:55advance
33:55again
33:55intending
33:56to
33:56take
33:57to
33:57Brook
33:57Bia
33:59Hakeim
34:00was
34:00in
34:00the
34:00south
34:00of
34:00the
34:01British
34:01position
34:01at
34:02Ghazala
34:023,600
34:07soldiers
34:08were
34:08entrenched
34:09here
34:09the
34:10French
34:10had
34:10joined
34:10the
34:10British
34:11under
34:11General
34:11de Gaulle
34:12among
34:13them
34:13were
34:13members
34:13of
34:14the
34:14foreign
34:14legion
34:14there
34:19were
34:19Poles
34:20Yugoslavs
34:22Sergs
34:23Croats
34:23and
34:24even
34:24Austrians
34:25there
34:26weren't
34:27many
34:27Austrians
34:27they
34:29joined
34:29the
34:29foreign
34:29legion
34:30after
34:30the
34:30Anschluss
34:31they
34:33did
34:33not
34:33accept
34:34Hitler's
34:34annexing
34:35their
34:35country
34:36and
34:37so
34:37they
34:37joined
34:38us
34:38the
34:43news
34:43of
34:43the
34:43German
34:44and
34:44Austrian
34:44foreign
34:45legion
34:45heirs
34:45got
34:45back
34:46to
34:46Hitler's
34:46headquarters
34:47on
34:48the
34:489th
34:48of
34:48June
34:48Rommel
34:49received
34:49an
34:49order
34:50the
34:52Fuhrer
34:52has
34:52ordered
34:53that
34:53these
34:53should
34:54be
34:54treated
34:54extremely
34:55harshly
34:55they
34:56are
34:56to
34:56be
34:56mercilessly
34:57killed
34:57Rommel
35:01was
35:01shocked
35:04that
35:05people
35:05should
35:05be
35:05shot
35:06for
35:06just
35:07doing
35:07their
35:07duty
35:07like
35:08we
35:08did
35:08they
35:09were
35:10enemies
35:10but
35:11not
35:11partisans
35:12or
35:12anything
35:13like
35:13that
35:14you
35:14have
35:14to
35:14respect
35:15them
35:15they're
35:16men
35:16like
35:17us
35:17that
35:19won't
35:20be
35:20done
35:20he
35:20said
35:21I
35:21can't
35:21be
35:22responsible
35:22for
35:22that
35:23on
35:23on
35:27the
35:2711th
35:28of
35:28June
35:28beer
35:29ha
35:29I'm
35:29fell
35:30to
35:30the
35:30Germans
35:302619
35:35so-called
35:36free
35:36French
35:37escaped
35:37500
35:38were taken
35:39prisoner
35:39according
35:44to the
35:44peace
35:44treaty
35:45with
35:45France
35:45they
35:46counted
35:46as
35:46guerrillas
35:47they
35:47were
35:48also
35:48threatened
35:48by
35:49the
35:49death
35:49penalty
35:49Rommel
35:54believed
35:55that you
35:56don't
35:56shoot
35:57men
35:57who
35:57are
35:57fighting
35:58a
35:59regular
35:59battle
36:00wearing
36:02a
36:03regular
36:03uniform
36:04but
36:08Rommel
36:08was
36:09also
36:10someone
36:10who
36:11feared
36:11reprisals
36:12I
36:15mean
36:15he
36:15was
36:16afraid
36:16that
36:16German
36:16prisoners
36:17would
36:18be
36:18treated
36:18the
36:18same
36:18way
36:19Rommel
36:22resisted
36:22the
36:22orders
36:23to
36:23kill
36:23but
36:24he
36:24didn't
36:24yet
36:25question
36:25that
36:25he
36:25was
36:26serving
36:26a
36:26criminal
36:26regime
36:27the
36:34desert
36:35war
36:36was
36:37really
36:37a
36:37war
36:37without
36:38hate
36:38it
36:40was
36:41his
36:42good
36:42luck
36:42that
36:42his
36:42image
36:43was
36:43built
36:43up
36:43in
36:43Libya
36:44he
36:46owes
36:46his
36:46reputation
36:47to
36:47Libya
36:47his
36:49reputation
36:50as a
36:52great
36:52general
36:52but
36:52also
36:53his
36:54reputation
36:55as a
36:56man
36:56who
36:57succeeded
36:57in
36:57waging
36:58a
36:59clean
36:59war
36:59in
37:05battle
37:05this
37:06clean
37:06war
37:06was
37:07as
37:07murderous
37:08as
37:08any
37:08other
37:08time
37:11and
37:11again
37:12rommel
37:12got
37:12himself
37:12into
37:13danger
37:13during
37:14the
37:14attack
37:15on
37:15the
37:15gazala
37:15position
37:16a
37:16missile
37:17hit
37:17his
37:17car
37:17his
37:21first
37:22staff
37:22officer
37:23secret
37:23westphal
37:24was
37:24wounded
37:24rommel
37:26rommel
37:28was
37:28okay
37:28i
37:29was
37:29okay
37:29the
37:30driver
37:30was
37:30okay
37:31but
37:32westphal
37:32was
37:32hit
37:33in
37:33the
37:33back
37:33pouring
37:34with
37:34blood
37:35he
37:35fell
37:35out
37:35of
37:35the
37:35car
37:36and
37:36landed
37:36on
37:36his
37:37front
37:37in
37:37the
37:37desert
37:37he
37:38was
37:38covered
37:39in
37:39blood
37:39rommel
37:40said
37:41schlieppenbach
37:42leipzig
37:43we must
37:43get away
37:44i thought
37:45to myself
37:45you can't
37:46just leave
37:46the colonel
37:47lying there
37:48i said
37:49to leipzig
37:49you take
37:50the field
37:50marshal
37:51back
37:51i was
37:53i don't know
37:53how to
37:54say it
37:54i was
37:55ambivalent
37:55i could
37:56understand
37:57that rommel
37:58couldn't
37:58stay
37:58it was
37:59much
37:59too
37:59dangerous
38:00on the
38:01other hand
38:02i was a bit
38:02shocked
38:03that he had
38:03not told
38:04me to
38:04deal
38:04with
38:05colonel
38:05westphal
38:05i was
38:07somewhat
38:08shocked
38:08that he
38:08expected
38:09me
38:09to
38:09drive
38:09away
38:09with
38:10him
38:10and
38:10leave
38:10westphal
38:11there
38:11schlieppenbach
38:14saved
38:14colonel
38:15westphal
38:15three days
38:16later
38:16rommel
38:17met
38:17the man
38:17he
38:17believed
38:18dead
38:18and
38:21rommel
38:21was
38:21very
38:22surprised
38:22to
38:22see
38:22my
38:23father
38:23again
38:23and
38:24said
38:24oh
38:26i thought
38:26you
38:26were
38:26dead
38:27my
38:29father
38:29was
38:30naturally
38:30very
38:30hurt
38:31and
38:32took
38:32it
38:32to
38:33halt
38:33in
38:37the
38:38early
38:38hours
38:38of
38:38the
38:3820th
38:39of
38:39june
38:391942
38:40at
38:40Tobruk
38:41rommel's
38:42forces
38:42finally
38:43broke
38:43through
38:43the
38:43outer
38:44wall
38:44of
38:44the
38:44fortress
38:45victory
38:48was
38:49now
38:49within
38:49reach
38:50then
38:59they
38:59started
38:59firing
38:59on us
39:00relentlessly
39:00rommel
39:02said
39:02idiots
39:03why
39:03are
39:03they
39:03firing
39:04at
39:04her
39:04schlippenbach
39:05drive
39:05up
39:05and
39:06tell
39:06them
39:06to
39:06surrender
39:07tell
39:08them
39:08to
39:08brook
39:08has
39:09already
39:09surrendered
39:10of
39:11course
39:11it
39:11wasn't
39:12true
39:12i
39:12thought
39:12it
39:12was
39:13a
39:13suicide
39:13mission
39:14but
39:14drove
39:14on up
39:15then
39:16there
39:16was
39:16some
39:16cover
39:17i
39:17crawled
39:18on
39:18further
39:18and
39:18called
39:19out
39:19surrender
39:19surrender
39:20the
39:20war
39:21is
39:21finished
39:22the
39:22war
39:22is
39:22finished
39:23surrender
39:24surrender
39:24and
39:26that
39:27was
39:27the only
39:27english
39:27i
39:27knew
39:28of
39:28course
39:29they
39:29had
39:29no
39:29intention
39:30of
39:30giving
39:30up
39:30and
39:30carried
39:31on
39:31shooting
39:31so
39:32he
39:32crawled
39:33back
39:33only
39:33to
39:33find
39:34rommel's
39:34whole
39:34staff
39:35had
39:35disappeared
39:35i was
39:37rather
39:37pissed
39:38off
39:38i got
39:39depressed
39:39about
39:40it
39:40thinking
39:40well
39:41schlippenbach
39:42he doesn't
39:43care at
39:43all
39:43what
39:43happens
39:44to
39:44you
39:44he
39:45orders
39:45you
39:45to
39:45drive
39:45up
39:46them
39:46they're
39:47supposed
39:47to
39:47surrender
39:48and
39:49then
39:49he
39:49drives
39:49away
39:50rommel
39:56drove
39:56his
39:56sabers
39:56on
39:57impatiently
39:58by
39:59dawn
40:00they
40:00had
40:00removed
40:00the
40:00last
40:01obstacle
40:01the
40:02tank
40:02traps
40:02the
40:04way
40:04into
40:04the
40:04stronghold
40:05was
40:05clear
40:06and
40:08then
40:09he
40:10said
40:10something
40:10very
40:10clever
40:11to
40:11me
40:11which
40:12even
40:12then
40:12made
40:13a
40:13lot
40:13of
40:13sense
40:13do
40:15you
40:15know
40:15if
40:15you
40:16are
40:16the
40:16leader
40:16of
40:16an
40:16army
40:17and
40:17have
40:18responsibility
40:18for
40:19thousands
40:19of
40:19lives
40:20you
40:21can't
40:21get
40:21involved
40:22in
40:22an
40:22individual's
40:23fate
40:23if
40:24you
40:24do
40:24you
40:25take
40:25your
40:25eye
40:26off
40:26the
40:26ball
40:26and
40:27you
40:28manage
40:28the
40:28responsibility
40:29if
40:29you
40:29worry
40:29about
40:30one
40:30man's
40:30fate
40:31I
40:32found
40:33that
40:33very
40:33illuminating
40:58to
40:58the
40:58operation
40:59here
41:02a few
41:03words
41:03to
41:03say
41:04four
41:07weeks
41:08La guerra de los Estados Unidos está detrás de nosotros, pero no es tan fuerte, sino tan fácil, tan tan fácil, tan fácil.
41:19Hoy, la lucha de los últimos años, por el relojamiento de la Festa de Tobok.
41:27La victoria de la nación es seguro.
41:30I think it was on the 11 o'clock news or some time, we heard that Rommel was being promoted to field marshal.
41:40And so Gunther or I, anyway, one of us decided to wake the old man and tell him, because he was already asleep.
41:49So we went and woke him and said,
41:51We're very pleased to say you have been promoted to field marshal.
41:55And Rommel had really been asleep.
42:01He was able to lie down in the car when he could, and within 10 minutes he would be asleep.
42:06He would fall asleep, have a little nap and be quite refreshed.
42:12Anyway, he sat up for a moment and said,
42:15Yes, thank you very much.
42:18But the war goes on.
42:25Tobruk was the pinnacle of Erwin Rommel's career.
42:30What he didn't know was that same day he lost the war in North Africa.
42:35So God left him and said,
42:59We can see you.
42:59Gracias por ver el video.
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