Erwin Rommel: The General Who Defied Hitler 

Do you have a biography of Werner Mölders a German flying ace of WW2? Would be interesting.

I think it is excelent. Thank you.

@Titus Robertson yeah

Love the channel but please slow down. You're speaking too fast. It makes me not want to listen. Thanks

That man was not a Nazi the Gestapo suspected him for having a lead role in operation Valkyrie and they gave him two choices commit suicide or face public execution he committed suicide in order to save his family's name and Legacy and was given a lavish State funeral with lots of Nazi propaganda everywhere as a last insult to the great General and his family you should have more respect than simply using his name for clickbait

It's actually fitting in German.

Allemaal maar geen enkele alleen.hemzelf

"Coast" would have been more accurately texty although maybe just a selfie on the beach is more likely.

New Reich who dis

Dunca mine nigga

Rommel was a Nazi. He wanted to kill Hitler not because he hated the Nazis, he wanted him gone because he saw that Hitler will ruin Nazi germany

@@fuckinantipope5511 he was well respected between the american generals and his troops loved him. He fought for his country.

@@fuckinantipope5511 Rommel hated the other Nazi's, he only was a friend to just Hitler

@@sensefire4999 Many speak, God ALONE "Judges." I appreciate Rommel as a courageous, and intelligent man, regardless.

He never joined the NAZI party

@HQ Night well, that would be weird

@HQ ok

@Arkane Betha and should have stayed in art school,not becoming a antisemitical,mass murdering dictator.😒

Maximiliano Moreira His art wasn't that good, you can see some online

@@salj.5459 i know,but it would be ten thousand times better,than be a dictator prone to genocide

For his country not his government

Hit the nail on the head there!

"adolf chan, we are kinda losing over here . lmao XD " - rommie

Would've been amazing if he threw in an emoji or something for good measure

Maybe he invented the first text message.

Including an attachment photo of selfie at beach.

@@alexandert696 "send help pls adolf-chan UwU"

R.I.P to your neighbor

And Rommel

I know it's really late, but did he give the soldiers supplies? 120 miles in the desert would be a death sentence without plenty of food, drink and shelter.

@@ThisCharmlessMan probably not much... I mean that was probably the reason why he let them go in the first place. The Africa korp had a problem with supplies anyway, making the fact that Rommel refused to execute POW's even more respectable imo

@@ThisCharmlessMan this is the most stupidies thing one could say...he was fighting patton on one side and montogremmy on other without suplies and u want him to give a uber ride with uber eats to enemy soldier behind the line...naive af

Yea. I think Rommel’s potentials was wasted in Africa and not in an actual important area of the war

@@yanivgalmor1747 I love your fucking name

@Vichy France Ball UTTP THDTC Not really, Russia was invaded because: fear of communism, hate towards the slavs and one of their operations was about taking it's resources (i.s oil and ores) Africa was more geographical, the Suez, the Sinai peninsula and the Nile were perfect launch pads for outer-European raids on many British colonies such as India and Australia.

Yeah actually I little known fact is that operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union would of probably succeed the invasion had to be delayed from spring to summer due to Rommels and others campaigning in North Africa , and as we all know the winter was what really stopped the invasion , so if they didn’t waste time on North Africa they very well could of invaded and defeated Russia before winter (since they would begin months earlier in spring

@@walx274 winter didn't stop them their supply lines did

N V That’s a bit Too Rommel Just a bit A great quote though

Rommel never had to face US Marines....

@MarcyyD Australians and Kiwis are considered some of the toughest and best soldiers, basically. Whether that is true, I can't say. As far as I know, all soldiers are good until proven else.

@@craigstrickland7390 US marines lost to vietnam rice farmers, shut up

@@KBShow-bw4lj 😂

Living or dead, always ahead, fed by your dread.

Wendigo01 always ahead as the blitzkrieg rages on, Recking moral with the sound of blazing guns

First into line if fire, first into hostile land. Tanks leading the way, LEADING THE WAAAY

Leaving a trail of destruction through a foreign land

He loved motorbikes. Was the first ghost rider.

I don't mean to disrespect your grandfather, but he probably looted it.

@@addisonwelsh nah. He merely "acquired" it from some German guy who "wasnt using it anymore"

What are his opinions on him

He wants another one ya??

rommel had mad respect for the australian forces in africa, mainly for the ingenuity they had for scavenging weapons and vehicles from defeated axis forces and making them their own

Very good comparison

depends on ur point of view. if u analyse the treaty of versailles u could already now that the future is war. it was not a real treaty. it was more a demand. (difference is that a treaty makes both sides happy at least a bit) so was it right to kill thousands of innocents? no of cours it was not right. but was it right to fight against the humiliating treaty of versailles?.. i would say yes. Rommel was never a NAZI in its real meaning. he was a german general that was excellent as his job. he fight coz he belived in germany as a nation, not in the nazi regime. i wouldnt say he was on the wrong side of war. he was working for a regime nobodyexactly from the outside knew what they were doing.

He also NEVER opposed the holocaust, or the invasion of several countries for the sole reason the Germany needed space.

@@marenhempel1995 because if he did he would be fired and maybe even killed

Kind of a big fault though... but good comparison!

For real?

I see your reference there

If you have never seen that movie you owe it to your self: Patton (Francis Ford Coppola 1969). A must see war movie.

Correct !

A true German patriot of Germany in WWII

Nezzie Rae Just because he was an ideologically driven General Officer of a genocidal regime that’s political indoctrination spilled into every aspect of life and who’s mainstay armed forces were by and large complicit in the holocaust doesn’t mean he was a Nazi smh my head.

Yeah he wasn't a nazi! He just eagerly served a genocidal regime and only "defied" Hitler when it became convenient!

@@toxiicwarfare9698 exactly, he didnt want to be part of the SS and didnt round up Jews.

Killpatiant they said it is unclear if he took part in this but Evan looking back he was a pretty good guy for a Nazi and a good amount of allied generals did bad things like this

Mike Hunt we wasn’t a nazi he never joined the party

Dr. killpatient Just like any other soldier.

@Dr. killpatient Thats normal in our history. Sad but true. A few examples George Washington hero of America and later the first presindent send the black soldiers that fought for him back into slavery. The storm of the bastille is a celebrated day among the french but its a day on which rebels overthrow part of the military that kust happend to be stationed there and cut all there hads and walked threw the streets with the heads. Now you may say, oh but in 1939 nearly only Germans were doing that. I can tell you that many world leader and generals at that time were indead racists against jews and some American generals even wanted to keep the KZ going. The russian did as bad things to the Germans as they did to them. And a high number of US Generals wanted to use the A-bomb in all the next wars to come without question.

Dr. killpatient not really a loss tbh. Lol

@Eliphas 『Over Heaven』 same here but grades dont truly reflect on a person's intelligence

I somehow doubt that

What they teach in school is mostly complete garbage that you'll never use again. The government can't even get rid of bad teachers due to the unions.

@@bobsmith7982 Right. Back in my school days I knew lots of dolts who managed to get good grades. They would get C's on tests, but a daily string of "100's" for dutifully turning in homework would still net them an A average. If the public school system actually educated a citizen it would be dismantled and outlawed. Its primary aim is to churn out obediant workers with standardized worldviews that make them easy to manipulate by their elite masters. The average product of this system is blind as a bat, but convinced otherwise - an overconfident fool.

Same.

Eric Taylor Technically, General Patton did survive the war. He died on December 21st, 1945, in Germany. He died from his injuries due to a automobile accident 12 days prior to his death. Rommel died due to biting into a cyanid pill on October 14th, 1944. So technically, he didn’t die due to a direct cause of the war (such as a mortar attack, artillery barrage, gun shot, etc). However, I totally agree with you. It would be AWESOME if Rommel and Patton met, shared a beer, and talk about war tactics.

Both their sons have met with each other and were friends

That's cool.

+Bovington's Finest Hannibal decided taking Elephants through the alps was a good idea and he's still considered one of the greats. We measure success by how their names last through the sands of time. Rommel and Patton will live on!

Patton died in a car accident. He was not murdered.

Another fun fact, your Chasseur Ardennais have an amazing song in tribute to them, called Resist and Bite by the Swedish metal band Sabaton. The 9th Panzer division has one as well, Ghost Division.

Damn, Rommel gave a GG before GG was a thing

Resist and Bite.

I feel your pain bro, when I was little I was trying to fix my spring pen but then the spring jumped out of my hand. I could never found that spring again

I converted a spring pen into a makshift paper ball launcher

I also can't seem to stop watching

Nice profile pic

I highly suggest you guys watch Mark Felton's channel. Great history content

I like this channel but you should also checkout the armchair historian

Ok buddy a few facts about the short comings of Australian and Commonwealth soldiers, 1. We handed Rommel and Germany there first defeat at Tobruk prior to that he was kicking French and British arses all over Europe, 2 the American's were observing North Africa to decide whether to join the war and their code had been broken, the British informed the Americans that there code had been broken and they ignored it , so they were telegraphing troop movements to the Germans in real time, that's the "superior" German tactics and even with that they still lost, because Montgomery tricked Rommel into committing the bulk of his forced to the north of the line where the Australian forces were and he punched a hole into the centre of his line, basically a common theme in British command was get the Commonwealth soldiers to take the punishment and act as the distraction, another example of that was in Holland where the Canadians were sent to a 'hard point' in the German line, a point that was thought to be almost impenetrable, and they took it, at horrible loses, at least your grandfather showed the proper respect.

Dude my koro (grandfather) was int the 28th Maori battalion in north Africa in world war two. ANZAC for life. Respect to your koro, respect to Rommel.

My grandfather Also fought along side with the legendary desert fox and Also fought in the last standoff in Berlin

@@saulgames1567 respect you your grandfather

@@saulgames1567 dude Germany NEVER lost any of its glory. Be proud of your race and culture. The world needs to move on from that war. But no. Ppl still hate on Germany and I really dont understand why. I could go on about how much worse Stalin was then Hitler but I wont. It's not the place. But hay I know that I can respect your ppl as my grandfather did. Even though he lost his brother and bestfriend in the war he always talked highly of the german soldier. God bless the glorious dead. No matter the side.

Hi Paul I saw your post it's nice to know not all Germans were bad

Churchill is a traitor.

As he should of a great general

He's probably not.

Me: *visible confusion

Hahqhq

If he helped their agenda then he’s a filthy nazi

Pure clickbait. I remember an article on CRACKED that was titled "the black Nazi" - it was about a young black guy living in Germany during the world war 2 era and his experiences. He applied to be a member of the Hitler Youth and later he applied to be a member of the nazi party, but they wouldn't accept him because he was black. So in other words, he wasn't a nazi. He didn't even get accepted into the German army and didn't do any fighting, yet the title of the article says he was a nazi. Pure clickbait and hack journalism.

That was actually Desert Storm.

Pretty fitting of the US to carry pictures of nazis around

@@celtic69 Sky Den's comment wasn't pinned, so I'm pretty sure you've read tonnes of "Erwin Rommel wasn't a Nazi" as you glide along through the comment section.

@@celtic69 well except that he wasn't a nazi you galaxy brain Did you even watch the video, like, at all?

But how would rommel have contributed to future U.S. victory ?

47Sukhoi thank you

Thrawn was inspired by Rommel.

Connor MacLeod wasn’t thrawn inspired by sun tsu

His head does look like rommels

So true

Captain Nunley Wasn’t it for Hitler’s tight security i would’ve killed him with my own fists.

🤣

Dentist, first brother.

@@JohnSmith-oe5rx 😂

Kein Scheiße

I also suggested it Filip. This channel is certainly one of my favorites. Another is Simon's top 10 net.

Hello brian stuart, no buddy, sorry I'm not. I've never been to Michigan.

brian stuart Michigan is magnificent

But both died due to political reasons. Pattons *accident* and Rommels mistaken to conspire against hitler

What about Zhukov, Monty and Charles De Gaulle?

@@paddyh8023 talking about the FINEST not just another Commander

@@justinhowse7590 yeah zhukov was just another commander

both admirable but overrated. Heinz Guderian was the GOAT of the german war machine

@Larson Oppenheimer the wermacht was the German army not the waffen SS

Fabian Ackermans well said!

Fabian Ackermans that’s right

The video clearly states that Rommel was not a Nazi party member.

Incorrect. Just like all Soviet soldiers weren't communists. Bobby - the Nazis knew a lot of their crap was criminal so they tried to hide it from their own people. They created a society of snitches to rat out anybody who was 'disloyal' so nobody could speak their mind (plenty of stories of indoctrinated kids informing on their parents and then papa is off to Buchenwald for some re-education) - the military was the only force strong enough in Germany to shield dissidents from the Nazis so quite a number actually sought refuge from the Nazis by enlisting. The Wehrmacht, however, became enamored of Hitler after the speed of the Blitzkrieg in France and from that point on, except for isolated instances, they were largely in his pocket. Rommel was one of those instances, defying any order he felt to be unconscionable. After the July Plot failed, and the intense purge of military officers, that is when the mindset of licking Hitler's boots and trying to prove loyalty starts up. Hence you have generals in the bunker at the very end saying nothing while Hitler makes grand plans with army divisions that only exist on paper. Rommel is actually the only general Hitler ever chased down a hallway to apologize to after he went off on some tirade about the failure in North Africa. Tribunals and summary executions for military officers didn't start until after July 1944, before then he'd sack generals but he didn't have them shot.

Das stimmt so nicht!!

It’s possible he was, though it’s not confirmed I don’t think. Design-wise, he was based on an extra for a Paris Hilton music video, though personality-wise, there are some resemblances to him and Rommel.

Erwin taichooooo

@@SirCap paris hilton MV? Isayama is insane lmao

I went through each of the major nations in my head and legit can't think of one. I mean Germany waged a rather clean campaign by WW2 standards (no banned weapons, rapists were shot by their own officers, etc.), yet others still did some things. The US and UK were tame compared to others, but war crimes did occur and were often overlooked by superiors. It's not talked about often since they won. The Japanese and Soviets were exceptionally cruel and both actually committed war crimes because they were _ordered to do so_ We do hear of Japan's, but the Soviets are not talked about nearly as much despite being the worst out of any belligerent. All of the political leaders were scumbags. Stalin was easily the worst, and for "least awful" I would say FDR, but mostly since the US entered the war late, he was a scumbag to.

@@DrewPicklesTheDark A Ukrainian friend whose family escaped first Communists, then Nazis during the war, told me many German POWs jumped off speeding trains to escape being sent to the gulags in Russia after the war ended.

@@irishwolfhound5703 Rommel was a good man, patriot and not a member of the Nazi Party. Most of Hitler's elite had psychopathic minds, IMO.

@@cax1175 talking about his whole leadership life? stalin killed more but it had nothing to do with racial stuff just pure paranoia

@@yanivgalmor1747 Throughout his life, yes. During the war and as an advocate of racial superiority? No.

Erwin Rommel, come back to life please. I need you.

Lmfao

+Jona W. you called me?

My brother thinks its bad that i look up to Rommel, this video proved him wrong.

Same for Zhukov Stalin : Makes a sh*tty joke Soviet Generals: Laughs like maniacs Zhukov : Whats so funny?

It's 1940

@@kameradin8964 Pshhh, let him have his moment.

“Am on the coast, meet up l8r 👍 - The Rommster_39” Seen 4h ago

Lmfao

Am on the coast,fuhrer chan uwu

Michael Willever ahh thank you

+Erwin Rommel hey other me, his are you?

HE WAS one of the biggest bosses in Wehrmacht for gods sake !!! Read Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs to find out how sadistic and racist typical german soldier was during WWII. read about 600 Polish villages razed to the ground with its inhabitants by Wehrmacht within years 39-44 . read about atrocities against civilians committed by german soldiers in Belarus during a war. to call you a cretin in an understatement really. why did you decide to write anything here in the first place ??

@@wisienkakochacie what is your point just because the German army was mostly a bunch of rassist buttholes doesn't mean Rommel was one too and also I don't think it says in any of the courses you provided that he joined the nazi party and I think I read somewere it was actually not ideal to do so if you want to join the military

Rommel wasn't political. Most of the German army were yes brainwashed by hitler and his speeches. Whereas as said here rommel came back to hitler being in power and was just following what he as many others soldiers thought were orders for the good of the country. You also fail to mention the countless deaths the Germans did to themselves. Shooting their own soldiers dead for trying to run home. Rommel defied Hitler's orders and even recommended brokering for peace.

​@@Konstantinos1648 the point is Rommel was a nazi posterboy during the war. How engulfed in National Socialism you have to be to be a german general during WWII ? And people write here that he was not a Nazi!! It's like saying Dick Cheney was not a republican during Bush's presidency. After the war the myth was carried on, this time as an opposition to brutal and sick Gestapo Wehrmacht soldiers were portrayed as ... just soldiers who were following the orders, well they weren't. perhaps because of 95% of atrocities committed by Wehrmacht took place on eastern front there is that prevailing belief that Rommel didn't know about these crimes. Anyway, he was one of the Führer's undying supporters during first few years of the war.

@@wisienkakochacie learn some ww2 history and how to teach properly.

Let him rot in hell not rest in peace.

@@mayerschwartz4000 why

@@mayerschwartz4000 ewwww troll

@@mayerschwartz4000 booo have some respect man

@@jbarral6509 Why should I respect a Nazi war criminal who killed innocents?

@Witold Pilecki Polish Hero I will defend Rommel until I die, he was a glorious hero. Sadly he was dragged into the Nazi regime.

UsuallyOkay Just because he was an ideologically driven General Officer of a genocidal regime that’s political indoctrination spilled into every aspect of life and who’s mainstay armed forces were by and large complicit in the holocaust doesn’t mean he was a Nazi smh my head.

Rommel was a great soldier, a debatably good general and an excellent frontline commander, but that does not mean he was an angel or anything, the man had his sins and his flaws because no man is perfect (surprised right?) he’s arguably better than most other Germans when it came to torture and stuff but like I said the man had his sins

@@agentc7020 Actually, Rommel is as close to clean as you can get. He ignored orders to kill captured British Commandos, tried to get SS soldiers courtmartialed for killing civilians, and even argued against the use of slave labor.

@@addisonwelsh Rommel did know about the conspiracy to kill Hitler since those two came to him but he refused it was mentioned in another history channel. Yes on the easy side he looked like a chicken and a coward whom could have done us a favour and end the dictator but on the other side he is loyal to his people and not Hitler himself to the end even if he hated the Nazi ideology. He had saved live's too and repel orders to kill British commandos and even went against orders from Hitler himself in the later yeas of the war. He did know about the conspiracy and never told Hitler is what cements my thoughts of him as just a German soldier and not a Nazi.

Yep

not at all, michael doesnt look like a deformed neanderthal

Or does he?

He has cloning tech

OK Michael. This is not a joke.

Teresa Jenkins hi there. From wich part of Germany do your ancestors come? It honors me to read your Comment since my family thereself are a part of the Rommel Familytree.

Not sure where we come from in Germany, my mothers maiden name is Brineman they came to the US prior to the American Revolution.

Teresa Jenkins hello. I think i saw your comment in the Robert E Lee bio vid. So cool to encounter someone with German hereditary

Rommel was a worthy advisary. One that could work miracles with a handful of men and tanks running on fumes. And proof that not all the Germans fighting for Hitler were evil. Its a shame that our history books try to portray the Germans soliders as monsters rather than men fighting to win a war.

Salud 74 That’s something to be proud of

Found it hard to believe he was in tokyo.

Honest mistake, go make your own vidoes and see how easy it is

He was in Tokyo idiots

@@basil9973 It was Danzig.

I can find no sources that say that he trained in Tokyo, except for the biographics site. All other sources say that he did his officer's training at Officer Cadet School in Danzig, from where he graduated in November 1911.

Isoruku Yamamoto

otto Bismarck

Ike and pershing would also be awesome

Montgomery

Karl Donuts?

will do, thank you!

@@Biographics Cool history on our family side is that (my) Grandfather, Frank Colacicco. He went up against Rommel in North Africa (also went to West Point and graduated) and beat him and is a true war hero. After North Africa he stormed the beaches of Normandy too with his men and was heavily decorated with awards (silver star, bronze star, purple heart).

What?????

Just because he was an ideologically driven General Officer of a genocidal regime that’s political indoctrination spilled into every aspect of life and who’s mainstay armed forces were by and large complicit in the holocaust doesn’t mean he was a Nazi smh my head.

You have to differentiate between soldier and Nazi when it comes to this. Germany was also a time where misinformation campaigns where prevalent, but Rommel was focused more on a military aspect.

Resistance Commander military aspect that fought for evil.

thanks maybe dictatorship doesn't rly give u much of a choice

We are growing every day.

Good poibt

Tjats so true

Don't click me here. That is my private square

FBI I am a lily fan girl 👧

Am I a pro or a noob

The son was mayor of the coty

Interesting I didn’t know that.