Word: afrika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rommel, according to the story, first disagrees with Hitler over handling the Afrika Corps, and ends up taking part in a plot to kill the Feuhrer because he is so evil and insane. Rommel and his compatriots want to win the war, of course, but if they lose, they want to go down like good soldiers-not as murderers like their Nazi superiors...
...Desert Fox (20th Century-Fox), a sympathetic film study of the Afrika Korps' General Erwin Rommel, will surprise those moviegoers who have come to accept all Hollywood Nazis as guttural, sadistic villains. Rommel, as played by James Mason, speaks flawless English, is kind to his troops, makes a generous foe and a faithful friend...
...reflecting Author Young's same reluctant admiration for the enemy, The Desert Fox opens in North Africa with the German disaster at El Alamein. Rommel flies back to Germany to recover from an attack of jaundice and brood on Hitler's failure to keep the Afrika Korps adequately supplied. While in this mood, Rommel is sounded out by one of the ringleaders in a conspiracy against Hitler...
...Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support...
...greatest song hit of World War II, written in 1938 by two Germans, was broadcast by Germany to men of the Afrika Korps fighting in the 1941 desert campaigns. The British Eighth Army captured Lili from them and passed her on to soldiers the world over...