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Rommel and attempted
In particular, Irving accused Rommel's friend and Chief of Staff General Hans Speidel of framing Rommel in the attempted coup.
Panzerarmee Afrika — a German-Italian force commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommelattempted an envelopment of the British 8th Army, commanded by Bernard Montgomery.
The DAK was understrength from its recent battles, but Rommel attempted an attack along Ruweisat with the 15th Panzer and the remainder of the DAK.

Rommel and turn
He was the field commander for Operation Compass, in which his forces completely destroyed a much larger Italian army — a victory which nearly drove the Axis from Africa, and in turn, led Adolf Hitler to send the German Africa Corps under Erwin Rommel to try and reverse the situation.
In the north, Rommel had the Italian infantry divisions — supported by the Ramcke Brigade and the German 164th Infantry Division — conduct a frontal demonstration in an attempt to fix the British defenders in place while Rommel ′ s main attack cut through the southern sector and then turn north in a sharp left hook movement into Allied supply lines.

Rommel and left
He decided not to seek a decisive confrontation at the Mersa Matruh position: it had an open left flank to the south of the sort well exploited by Rommel at Gazala.
Rommel counselled Hitler to allow a full retreat to a defensible line but was denied, and on 9 March Rommel left Tunisia to be replaced by Jürgen von Arnim, who had to spread his forces over of northern Tunisia.
von Rundstedt in the centre, with Erwin Rommel to the left, Alfred Gause to the right and Bodo Zimmermann in the background.
However, by this time Rommel had left Africa never to return.
Rommel left at once and arrived on October 25.
Erwin Rommel ( first from the left ) in his command halftrack, SdKfz 250 | SdKfz. 250 / 3.
Joachim Müncheberg ( left ) and Feldmarschall Erwin Rommel ( right ).
Montgomery — who had been forewarned of Rommel ′ s intentions by Ultra intelligence — deliberately left a gap in the southern sector of the front, knowing that Rommel planned to attack there, and deployed the bulk of his armour and artillery around Alam el Halfa ridge, behind the front.
Despite these difficulties, Rommel ′ s forces were through the minefields by midday the next day and had wheeled left and were drawn up ready to make the main attack originally scheduled for 06: 00.
Erwin Rommel, Bayerlein and Albert Kesselring ( from left to right )
When Rommel left Tunisia in March 1943, after the failed attack at Medenine ( Operation Capri ), Bayerlein was appointed German liaison officer under the new commander, Giovanni Messe: in practice, Bayerlein acted as he saw fit, disregarding the Italian's orders.

Rommel and flank
The next day, 3 July, Rommel ordered the Afrika Korps to resume its attack on the Ruweisat ridge with the Italian XX Motorised Corps on its southern flank.
Rommel decided that there was time to improve his supply situation and further erode the Allied threat to his flank and made a proposal in early February to Comando Supremo in Rome to attack toward two U. S. supply bases just to the west of the western arm of the mountains in Algeria.
Before dawn on 10 July, as Rommel focused his efforts on the southern flank of the battlefield, the 9th Division attacked the north flank of the enemy positions and captured the strategic high ground around Tel el Eisa.
Rommel pushed his armoured forces round the southern flank of the Gazala position to engage the British armour in the rear of the Allied defences.
In the early hours of 27 May, Rommel personally led the elements of Panzer Army Afrika — the Afrika Korps, the Italian XX Motorised Corps, and the German 90th Light Afrika Division — in a brilliant but risky flanking maneuver around the southern end of the Allied lines, trusting to the enemy's own minefields to protect his flank and rear.
He decided to abandon the Mersa Matruh position because it had an open flank to the south of the sort well exploited by Rommel at Gazala.

Rommel and Eighth
The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.
Rommel had driven them forward ruthlessly, being confident that, provided he struck quickly before Eighth Army had time to settle, his momentum would take him through the Alamein position and he could then advance to the Nile with little further opposition.
The Eighth Army now enjoyed a massive superiority in material over the Axis forces: 1st Armoured Division had 173 tanks and more in reserve or transit, while Rommel possessed only 38 German tanks and 51 Italian tanks although his armoured units had some 100 tanks awaiting repair.
Once more, the Eighth Army had failed to destroy Rommel ’ s forces, despite its overwhelming superiority in men and equipment.
A second attempt by Rommel to bypass or break the Commonwealth position was repulsed in the Battle of Alam Halfa in August, and in October the Eighth Army decisively defeated the Axis forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein.
The new commander of the Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Montgomery, had the opportunity to conclusively defeat the Panzerarmee Afrika under Erwin Rommel, since Rommel was at the end of enormously stretched supply lines, the British were close to their supply bases, and Rommel was about to be attacked from the rear by Torch.
Since 1994, the Eighth has participated in a string of contingency operations, such as the 1996 Operation " Desert Strike " against Iraq, the 1998 Operation " Desert Fox " ( similarly named but in no way associated with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) against Iraq, which featured the B-1B in its combat debut, and 1999 Operation " Allied Force " against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which involved the B-2A Spirit in its first uncontested mission of aggression, which was officially designated " combat ".
His main duty was to keep the sea lanes open to India, to the Persian Gulf oilfields and to the Eighth Army in Egypt, at that time attempting to stop the German and Italian armies under General Erwin Rommel.
The combatants on the Axis side were the Panzer Army Afrika, consisting of German and Italian units and commanded by the " Desert Fox " Colonel-General Erwin Rommel ; the Allied forces were the Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie under the close supervision of the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck.
Devoid of effective armoured forces in subsequent battles, Rommel was unable to decisively defeat the Eighth Army as it retreated into Egypt and his pursuit was brought to a halt at the First battle of El Alamein.
Following the successful Operation Crusader, in late 1941, the Eighth Army had driven the Axis forces out of Cyrenaica and forced Rommel to withdraw to strong defensive positions he had prepared at El Agheila.
The division's battle groups took part in the Eighth Army's pursuit when Rommel withdrew from his defensive positions at Gazala in December, ending the year at Benghazi.
In September 1942, with the troops of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 90 miles ( 144 km ) from the Suez Canal, the staff of the British Eighth Army approve a plan to destroy the German fuel bunkers at Tobruk.
This action played a significant role in halting Rommel ’ s advance on the tired and depleted British Eighth Army.
The area was the scene of an unsuccessful German counter-attack by General Erwin Rommel as part of Operation Capri during March 1943 against British Eighth Army forces.

Rommel and Army
In this he said, " The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt on everyone's lips that if Rommel had been in the British Army he would still have been a sergeant ... There is a man in the British Army who flung 150, 000 men across the Ebro in Spain, Michael Dunbar.
Meanwhile, Erwin Rommel had surrounded five divisions of the French 1st Army near Lille.
Hitler then made matters worse by appointing Rommel commander of Army Group B, covering all of northern France.
After the defeat of the Italian 10th Army on 7 February 1941 during Operation Compass, the Italians were reinforced by German units ( Afrika Korps under Erwin Rommel ) and the British forces were forced out of Libya, leaving a besieged garrison at Tobruk.
Rommel had been appointed Inspector General of Coastal Defences and commander of Army Group B in November 1943 by order of Adolf Hitler.
The Axis forces involved, led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, were primarily from the Afrika Korps Assault Group, elements of the Italian Centauro Armoured Division and two Panzer divisions detached from the 5th Panzer Army.
On 23 January 1943, Montgomery ′ s 8th Army took Tripoli, thereby cutting off Rommel ′ s main supply base.
For the immediate outlook Rommel did not consider the 8th Army posed a serious threat.
With little prospect of further success, Rommel judged that it would be wiser to break off to concentrate in South Tunisia and strike a blow at 8th Army, catching them off balance while still assembling its forces.
18th Army Group was faced by two German Armies, Panzer Army Afrika under Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel and 5th Panzer Army under Generaloberst Hans-Jürgen von Arnim.
1st Army in particular received stinging blows from Rommel at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass.
The Axis forces involved were primarily from the German-Italian Panzer Army ( the redesignated German Panzer Army Africa ) led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the Fifth Panzer Army led by General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim.

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