Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a senior German Army officer during World War II...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth15 November 1891
CountryGermany
war men enemy
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo
war water enemy
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
art military enemy
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.
fighting air enemy
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
enemy war-plans call-of-duty
No plan survives contact with the enemy
blood brains saves sweat
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both.
civilization soldier forget
Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
troops states majors
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
military division given
I would rather he had given me one more division
war men world
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
winning dies
I didn't die nor win.
messages ifs
Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?
issues battle weight
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
upset black looks
He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the black side of things after a defeat, a tendency which can lead one into dangerous and false conclusions.