warshark42
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What do you think of Erwin Rommel?!?
A good 'seat of the pants' general, but a poor logistician.warshark42 said:What do you think of Erwin Rommel?!?
redcoat said:A good 'seat of the pants' general, but a poor logistician.warshark42 said:What do you think of Erwin Rommel?!?
Most over-hyped general of WW2
godofthunder9010 said:But people just absolutlely love to discuss ol' Erwin Rommel for some reason. Why is that?
Hegario said:godofthunder9010 said:But people just absolutlely love to discuss ol' Erwin Rommel for some reason. Why is that?
Probably because Rommel wasn't a Nazi and he was killed as a conspirator. That has somewhat romanticized his image to us westerners. Rommel was more like the traditional type of honorable German officers, like Von Rundstedt for example.
I personally think that although he faced only British, French and American soldiers he was still one of the best.
Sounds EXACTLY like Europe actually. Drasticly outnumbered on the Ostfront, the commanders who fought there pulled off miracle after miracle after miracle. Eventually they driven back agaist vastly superior numers. Basically, comparable to North Africa but on a giant, giant scale. Also, the stakes of the Ostfront were much greater.lundin said:He fought a war against a numerically superior enemy with less than a third of the supplies his army needed to be successful.
lundin said:Rommel also had to overcome fighting in North Africa. All the other generals had the advantage of fighting in Europe. What Rommel Did in North Africa was absolutely amazing. The fact that he did as well as he did with what he had was brilliant. He fought a war against a numerically superior enemy with less than a third of the supplies his army needed to be successful.
lundin said:Yes, but Rommels supplies had to be transported across the ocean, and britian had cracked the code and new when and where his supplies would be coming from. also, russia wasnt the superpower it was at the end of the war in 1941. the numbers where much more even at the beginning of the campaign in russia. i dont disagree with the arguements of miracle after miracle in the east. i agree totally. it was almost a numerical impossibility for the wermacht to fight as long as it did. Rommel just needs to be given his due is all
Based upon what? Actually, the entire list of elite German commanders pulled off MANY miraculous victories. Can you provide examples for comparison? Rommel had a lot of successes on the tiny semi-irrelevant part of the War. Manstein and Guderian were pulling off miracle after miracle on the Eastern Front, but they were doing it on a MUCH MUCH larger scale. Can someone provide a listing of "miracle victories" to make a comparison?Yes but Rommel pulled a lot more miracle victories then the other German commanders.
The reality was that no German commander was going to do well against Montgomery for one simple fact: He had more troops, more aircraft, more artillery, more manpower. A LOT MORE. But Rommel is most certainly not the only commander capable of achieving what he did.Also he was one of the few that could beat Monty.:tank:
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