How Did Rommel Become A Good Leader

In World War 1, Hitler volunteered for service in the Bavarian army, where he proved to be a dedicated courageous solider. After Germany’s defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, where, in 1919 he joined the Nazi party. In 1921 he was elected party chairman with dictatorial powers. He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics and by January 1933 he was appointed chancellor.

When Rommel had realised he could not win at El Alamein, he sought Hitler’s permission to withdraw his troops. Hitler had refused. Rommel disobeyed and withdrew his troops anyway. By early 1943, Axis forces had retreated to Tunisia and there, outnumbered and short on resources, and caught between the British and the Americans on all sides, they surrendered and North Africa was now in control of the allies.

“Between Rommel and his troops was mutual understanding which cannot be explained and analysed, but which the gift of gods is. The Afrika Korps [sic] followed Rommel wherever he led, however hard he drove them...... the men knew that Rommel was the last man to spare Rommel”

The 1st battle of El Alamein, which included the Australian 9th division, took place between the 10th and 27th of July 1942. While Allie losses in this battle were greater than German losses, it stopped and exhausted the Germans and forced them to regroup before they tried to advance again. The 2nd and more decisive battle of El Alamein took place on the 23rd of October. By this time the Allied forces had brought together an vast reserve of men, approximately 220 000 troops, of which 32 000 were Australian. Having intercepted German plans, the Allied forces, commanded by Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, were able to anticipate the German movements and eventually defeat them, with the battle ending on the 5th November. While the Australian troops only made up 6% of Montgomery’s forces, the suffered 20% of the casualties, with 620

Erwin Rommel was born on November 15, 1981 into a simple middle-class southern German family. Erwin Rommel would enter into military service during 1910 as an officer cadet. He saw his first action in World War I where he began to show his natural ability as a leader and start his illustrious career, which peaks during World War II. Erwin Rommel would find himself revered and respected by Hitler as one of his top generals. He would die before the defeat of Germany on October 15, 1944 and his death would be shrouded in controversy. During his military career he established that he was an excellent tactician and respected by his troops and even his enemies.

     Erwin Rommel Jr. was born on November 15, 1891 in Swabian. His father Erwin Rommel Sr., was a schoolmaster in Heidenheim in Wurttemberg , and Rommel's mother was Helene von Luz was a daughter of the local Regierungs-President.

The British launched a thousand-plane raid on Cologne in May. In August 1942 they were joined by the American airforce and cascaded bombs on German cities. The Germans drove eastward across North Africa into Egypt. British general Bernard Montgomery delivered an attack at El Alamein, west of Cairo. Here, the enemy was driven back to Tunisia more than a thousand miles away.

Germany’s desert warrior, Erwin Rommel, had decided to return home for more troops and because weather conditions were too bad for an invasion. Simultaneously, U.S general Eisenhower decided to go on the attack. The invasion began at night with paratroopers dropping behind enemy lines and taking control of strategic areas. At daybreak, 9,000 planes and the largest armada ever assembled appeared on the shores of Normandy.

The Allies faced a difficult challenge in Tunisia, and their progress was very slow. Rommel’s forces fought with tenacity in one battle after another as the fighting continued well into the spring of 1943. Nonetheless, the Allies did consistently gain ground on the Axis forces. On May 7, the Allies took Tunis and soon took the remaining Axis forces in Africa—more than 200,000 in all—prisoner. With that, the war in North Africa was over.

The article discussed the German surprise but, somewhat expectation that the Americans, British,and Canadians were to land in Normandy and left Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in charge of analyzing the beaches, setting up land mines, poisoning the nearby water supply and fields so the opposing soldiers would not stand a chance to survive. Rommel then decided that no matter what he does the Americans, British,and Canadians could not really be stopped unless the German troops were to be at that very spot and even if that time came he would not be allowed to move his troops without the permission of Hitler. Additionally, out of the 46 infantry divisions in France seven of them were untrained soldiers that mainly consisted of really young and old men however, the other troops were filled with well trained man that were many that vere veterans from the Eastern Front. Furthermore, commander Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt division had roughly 850,000 men which 60,000 of them were Russian prisoners that volunteered to be in the war instead of jail. On the other hand, Hitler actually suspected and waited from the

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Even when the desperately-needed supplies for the Afrika Korps arrived in port, they would still be hundreds of kilometres away from the front. The only two large capacity ports in the North African theatre were in Tripoli in Axis-held Western Libya, and Alexandria in British-held Egypt, a distance of close to 1900 kilometres. The pendulum-esque front of the African campaign meant that offensives “did not simply take you away from your railhead; they took you entire time zones from it. Supply became not just a problem but the problem”. The further East that Rommel pushed away from Tripoli, the longer his supply lines stretched, and the less dangerous he became. Conversely, in Egypt, the Allied forces were fighting with their supply lines at their backs, and once Rommel’s advance ran out of steam at El Alamein, the fully-stocked Allies drove them off the continent. Thus, Rommel’s decision to ignore Hitler’s orders of defending Libya, and instead attempt to seize Egypt - whether it was in the pursuit of glory, or a

In conclusion, Erwin Rommel was not a traitor. First, He didn’t follow request to assassinate Hitler from the conspirators. Next, there was no definite proof which can say Rommel was a traitor. Finally, he believed assassinating Hitler would bring about civil war which he didn’t want to break out. Therefore, it is not reasonable to determine that Rommel was a

Tanks cannot run forever though, and Rommel eventually had to retreat to Bardia. Using this sudden retreat to his advantage, the British relieved Tobruk and pushed the Germans, forcing them back to El Aghelia where they started. This victory would not stay for long as Japanese and German bombings would reduce supplies to the British forces and Rommel would get fresh troops and materials needed for a counter-offensive. Rommel would use this newfound army to push the British all the way back to Gazala, nearly halfway across Cyrenaica. Major General Neil M. Ritchie would set up the Gazala Line, a massive sixty-mile long line of strongholds, minefields, barbed wire and more than enough troops to man the line. Six strongholds, each about two square miles, would dot the line. Each stronghold was reinforced with artillery, armor, pillboxes, trenches, and minefields. Tanks would patrol between the strongholds, both intercepting German tanks and defending the line. Rommel launched the attack on the line, with positive results at first, but would be faced with a serious problem. Ritchie had been reinforced with brand new U.S. 31-ton Grant tanks with 75mm cannons, which could pierce the Panzer’s armor. Rommel would lose a third of his tanks and be

When Hitler and the Nazi party offered him a seat in politics, he declined and asked to command a tank division. He saw tanks as the next major player on the modern battlefield. Famous for leading from the frontline, Rommel could not accept running battles from a staff room, miles away. On the12 of February 1940, Rommel received his first field command over the 7th Panzer Division. While in command of the 7th, Rommel participated in the invasion of Poland, Belgium and France. The campaigns in Europe helped Rommel develop his employment of blitzkrieg tactics using combined arms. Although