Erwin Rommel
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Erwin Rommel

German field marshal
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Also known as: Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, der Wüstenfuchs, the Desert Fox
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Erwin Rommel
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Born:
November 15, 1891 Germany
Died:
October 14, 1944 (aged 52) near Ulm Germany
Role In:
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Erwin Rommel, in full Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, byname the Desert Fox, German der Wüstenfuchs, (born November 15, 1891, Heidenheim, Germany—died October 14, 1944, Herrlingen, near Ulm), German field marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Korps in World War II. Rommel’s father was a teacher, as his grandfather had been, and his mother was the daughter of a senior official. A career as an army officer began to be fashionable, even among middle-class southern Germans, after the establishment of the ...(100 of 1033 words)

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