To: Sthitch
To: When do we get liberated?
Rommel actualy was forced to commit suicide, after being involved with a kill Hitler plot........
68 posted on
01/19/2006 7:46:04 AM PST by
AmericanDave
(More COWBELL....................)
To: When do we get liberated?
Rommel committed 'suicide' (with some 'encouragement' from Hitler) in october 1944. There was some talk that he had agreed to become supreme commander of the armed forces if the plot to kill Hitler and replace the Nazi government had succeeded in july 1944. SS General Dietrich had already assured Rommel that SS troops would follow Rommels commands in that case, not Himmlers.
During the siege of Bastogne, the American commander Anthony McAuliffe replied 'nuts' to the German surrender demand by General Heinrich von Luettwitz of the XLVII Panzerkorps.
69 posted on
01/19/2006 7:50:56 AM PST by
Palpatine
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