Word: rommels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only example of Hitler's ineptitude as a commander. When Field Marshals von Leeb, List, von Rundstedt, von Bock and von Brauchitsch, Colonel General Haider and many others attempted to point out these mistakes Hitler dismissed them from their posts. . . . The newer generals, however, such as Rommel, Dietl, Schorner, Keitel and others who had not gone through a long military schooling failed to perceive these mistakes...
Then the attack pendulum swung back to the Caen sector, where the British Second Army jumped off in a new offensive on a nine-mile front southwest of Caen. The drive punched ahead for two and a half miles, then slowed as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved five divisions to stave off a breakthrough. German headquarters said the fighting might soon reach a new high of intensity and decide the fate of the Norman front...
...beaches nor hurled back into the sea by the man specifically picked for the job 27 months ago; 2) despite his high professional standing, Rundstedt had long been considered politically unsound from the Nazi point of view; 3) he and his field commander, the Nazi favorite Marshal Erwin Rommel, had disagreed sharply on tactics...
...Marshal Gunther von Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
...Rommel was unquestionably preparing for such a showdown. Besides the four Panzer divisions already identified, he was reported to have at least three more in reserve. Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, commander of the Second Army, found that some prisoners were veterans from the Russian front. Their units had been moved to Caen within the last month...