Word: rommels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Desert Fox" may not have been so foxy after all. According to an impressive roster of military experts appearing on West German TV, World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was far from the brave and brilliant commander Hitler had cracked him up to be. Rommel's understanding of strategy was "slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf...
...book Revolt on the Nile, however, Sadat outlined the intention of the Free Officers Movement to betray Britain to Rommel's Afrika Korps: "We made contact with the Germans' headquarters in Libya, and we acted in complete harmony with them" and "We would join with the Axis troops, and the fate of the British Empire would be sealed...
Egyptian generals and Cabinet members in the early 1960s knew Wolfgang Lotz as a wealthy German horse breeder with an engaging habit of sending champagne and other lavish gifts to well-placed friends. They thought of him as an ex-Wehrmacht captain in Rommel's Afrika Korps who later made a fortune in Australia. Some whispered that he was actually a former lieutenant colonel in Hitler's dread SS who had joined Egyptian intelligence...
...Died. Ed Rommel, 72, star American League pitcher who later became the first big league umpire to wear glasses on the job; after a long illness; in Baltimore. Rommel broke into the majors with the Philadelphia A's in 1920 on the strength of his spitball, which was outlawed the same year. He quickly developed an effective wobbling knuckle ball that helped him run up a 171-119 record (best season: 27-13 with the A's in 1922) before settling down to a 22-year career as one of the game's most respected...
...England. A World War I veteran, Liddell Hart predicted that armor would be the key to conflicts of the future, and in the period between wars fought vainly to have his "expanding torrent" method of attack adopted by the British army. History, of course, proved him correct; according to Rommel, the British would have avoided most of their early defeats in World War II had they listened to Liddell Hart...