Rommel's Desperate Report in Normandy Announcing His Own Defeat

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What did Rommel say in his desperate report of July 15, 1944? How was the situation in Normandy one month and nine days after the landing? When did Erwin Rommel predict the breach of the German defenses? Was he right? Next in this program, we are going to analyze the words that Rommel issued in his last war report, which occurred just a few days before suffering the air attack that put him out of action.
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00:00 Introduction
00:31Rommel despairs
01:50 The Rommel Report
05:37 Was Rommel right?
06:18 Hitler's reaction
07:13 Analysis of the report
07:50 Final considerations

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@nikgr4749 Год назад

In fact Rommel's original report said "It is necessary to draw the necessary POLITICAL conclusions from the situation". In other words, "We lost the war, we must capitulate". But his superiors erased the word "political", it sounded like a direct challenge to Hitler's authority, and they feared it would drive him mad. Fieldmarshall Klüge, the overall Commander of the West, who used to accuse Rommel of "defeatism" and insubordination to Führer's orders, not only forwarded the report to the High Command in Berlin, but also added a note of his own, "Unfortunately Fieldmarshall Rommel is right". Immediately afterwards, History took its course: Rommel's serious wound, July 20th assasination attempt, Allied breakthrough, investigation into the role of Rommel and Klüge in the July plot (both knew and both failed to report), and suicide of both.

@maciejniedzielski7496 Год назад

03:25 rare pictures, never seen image soo good describing Montgomery's let's say "particular character. As a Pole , we have something to say how Monty treated Polish Parachute Brigade during Market Garden

@JeddieT Год назад

@@rigasarzemnieks4230 …I agree completely. In fact, most Westerners are not even aware that the Soviets attacked Poland the same as Germany did. The signed pack Poland had with France and England should have united England and France against Stalin as well as it did Germany.

@Box-oo9tx 2 месяца назад

Brigadier General Sosabowski in particular was very badly treated by Montgomery, Horrocks and Browning.

@Box-oo9tx 2 месяца назад

@@JeddieT. I think France and Britain recognised that they could not fight both Germany and Russia at the same time. They were too overstretched with their respective empires and their combined armed forces would have been considerably outnumbered in 1939.

@bevinboulder5039 Год назад

Interesting to hear Rommel's report to Hitler. Unfortunately the latter was far past the point of listening to rational arguments. You always provide important info from unique perspectives.

@christopherthrawn1333 Год назад

Great work here Sir and your Team

@carlossoares8384 Год назад

Another amazing video keep with the good content

@arianegianne613 Год назад

Great video thanks!!!

@atticlight9048 Год назад

I have this thought. If all the resources poured into the V-rocket programme had instead been devoted to 1. the new jet fighters and 2. flak panzer wagons, many thousands of them, to provide far more protection to German ground forces, then might things have gone differently?

@ltjjenkins 11 месяцев назад

Are they electric vehicles?

@atticlight9048 11 месяцев назад

@@ltjjenkins Probably not. Sadiq Khan would certainly ban them from London.

@oscarmadison8530 Год назад

Very insightful.

@dongately2817 Год назад

Forget Rommel, he changed his tune when he saw the war was “unwinnable”. Von Rundstedt was called a defeatist as far back as 1940 when he was urging peace with Britain and then when he called Barbarossa “a fool’s errand”. The man was retired, came out of retirement, won the victories in France, a triumph he dreamed of 20 years prior, and then had to watch, in failing health, as the German state was bombed and beaten into submission, for nothing more than the dreams of an insane corporal. If, and this is a big if, there is sympathy to be had for any of the German high command Von Rundstedt is one who deserves it.

@severusfloki5778 Год назад

1940 huh? When was he called a defeatist? AH himself wanted peace. And Barbarossa in itself wasn’t a mistake. It’s easy to judge in hindsight.

@dongately2817 Год назад

@@severusfloki5778 In 1940 it depends on whose account you believe when it comes to Dunkirk. Hitler’s? Guderian’s Von Rundstedt himself? In 1941 he refused to push his troops when he knew they would take numerous casualties and was sacked for it. He was extensively debriefed by the allies but who really knows? It is known that the younger generals, including Rommel, thought he was an old man past his prime and unfit to be commanding troops they thought they could have led better.

@mrpolsco6872 Год назад

Hitler never wanted war with England he admired her Empire her Naval might, and the racial genes of the British, Rudolph Hess knew this and literally put his life on the line to commandeer a plane fly it to Scotland bail out and deliver the message, he was arrested by MI5 Churchill never received him, Churchill was a HAWK he loved his War and no body was going to rob it from him. Rudolf Hess spent the next 47 years in isolated captivity before he was found dead by strangulation at the age of 93 it was put down as suicide by hanging…yeh right. Britain went on to lose it’s Empire and the West Lost the World. Go figure 🤷🏻‍♂️

@severusfloki5778 Год назад

@@dongately2817 What battle are you even talking about

@dongately2817 Год назад

@@severusfloki5778 The western campaigns of 1940 and the initial push of Barbarossa.

@antoniasorianoperez2746 Год назад

Good history Channel

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Год назад

Another wonderful historical coverage & informative military knowledge, enlightenment video....thank you( War Academy) channel for sharing this accurate evaluation & enjoying introducing ...he was a faithfully military 🪖 commander in North Africa and western front until last breath...he didn't deserved that assassin plot ...

@Bibg867 11 месяцев назад

I think the opinion of Rommel was correct and in writing an honest report and given the clear circumstances. I feel Rommel was trying to save lives on both sides and asking for common sense to prevail. Personally I am sure Rommel knew it was a hopeless cause and it would fall on deaf ears.

@maciejniedzielski7496 Год назад

@War Academy Very good video. However Rommel was not "crystal" long story to tell you but somehow his fate was tragical.

@waynelittle646 Год назад

Fieldmarshall Erwin Rommel was a very intelligent man. 'The Desert Fox' Hero RIP

@maciejniedzielski7496 Год назад

I think it was necessary to be intelligent to become general however it doesn't me necessarily in the term of all aspects of life

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh Год назад

If somebody got a solution for problem in Normandy, that man was Erwin Rommel. Nobody else! RIP Feldmarschall Rommel!

@redtobertshateshandles 2 месяца назад

Yes, agree 100%. I have both his books. His "Infantry Tactics" is telling. A civil war general stated " Audacity always more audacity" . Rommel combines audacity with cunning and secrecy. And this is Russia's problem now in Ukraine. Satellite's see everything.

@user-rv2ge7sv8g Год назад

Sehr gut!

@mrpolsco6872 Год назад

Excellent as usual.

@johnelliott7375 Год назад

It was quite dire and it couldn't have been easy to do anything being bombed 24/7/365 after Normandy

@Kammler262 Год назад

Rommel was the greatest general of the entire war when it comes to Profesionalism doing his duty.

@daveanderson3805 Год назад

Aren't you forgetting Manstein?

@maciejniedzielski7496 Год назад

Heinrici, Buse, Rokossowski, even "bad character" Model were very good generals equal as Rommel but less médiatisés

@kereckelizabeth3625 Год назад

A great tactician, yes. But the greatest general? Naaaaa. Even his superiors never thought he was. But he has by far, been the most media-covered german officer. This has elevated him massively.

@redemptivepete Год назад

Agreed he really didn't 'get' logistics. Great generals do!

@alexfromboston8303 Год назад

@@redemptivepeteIgnorant comment. It wasn't Rommel's fault he didn't get the necessary supplies in North Africa. Hitler considered that campaign a side show and thanks to the Germans being too arrogant to see the obvious that their enigma system was compromised most of the Italian merchant ships carrying Rommel's supplies ended up on the bottom of the Med.

@slee5714 Год назад

I wonder if the German high command , low level officers, down to the common soldier thought, "... darn it, should have wiped them out at dunkirk."

@davecopp9356 11 месяцев назад

That was one of A.H. biggest mistake. They should have whiped them out or at least not let them escape. Than make a peace treaty with the UK without involving the fat p*g Churchill and from there concentrate all of their forces with a speerhat strategy to take moskau in two to three months while Japan should have attacked Russia from the rear. Sad that I was not asked back than. LOL.

@Bob.W. 11 месяцев назад

Good summary by Rommel as to how the western allies decided to fight, using ordinance to save men.

@andyx2299 Год назад

RIP heiliges Deutschland ❤

@davecopp9356 11 месяцев назад

Respect and RIP to all who fought for it. They were one of the greatest warriors of all time.

@robertleache3450 Год назад

If Hitler & the German High Command had not been fooled by Operation Fortitude, could half of the 15th Army been transferred to the Normandy front to bolster the sagging 7th Army ? Would this have failed too, or would it have allowed the Germans to have contained the Normandy front until the onset of Winter; and with that, bad flying weather for the Allied Air Force ?

@brex50 Год назад

You can't fix STUPID........Germany lost the war the day he invaded Russia...........................

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh Год назад

I think that Germans must be prepared for the battle on time and before 6 of June, 1944. All forces and equipment must be there on time and crucial positions. Like figures on the chess table before game. Why? Because, when battle start enemy aviation will not alowed german forces to move there. The same is with inaf suplies and other equipment.

@robertleache3450 Год назад

@@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh And that is the point: the German Defences on the Normandy Coastline were on average, only 40 % complete; compared with the Pas De Calais Area. With a majority of those troops static divisions of problematic combat ability. With the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy, the Germans needed a "Plan B" if they were to ever have a chance to contain the Allies in Normandy. That plan B could have meant transferring substantial reinforcements from the Pas De Calais Area.

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh Год назад

@@robertleache3450 Yes, but that was possible just before the battle. Germans must guess right spot of landing and wait ready 100%. Just in that case winning option was possible. Problem was that Hitler was opssesed with Pas de Calais. Germans were thinking Normandy was just trick and true spot landing was Pas de Calais. But, was oposite. That was double bluff. And that was masterful trick of winners of the battle. By the way, this is the biggest error of the Third Reich and Abwehr, because they didnt recognize that. If Germans were successful in Normandy, Wehrmacht will be possible stabilisated situation on the eastern front and war will not be over before 1946. So, Germans will be doing nuclear weapon and The Third Reich will probably survived ww2. But, this is just my speculation. So, who knows?!

@donaldatherton319 Месяц назад

This brings up the question;; did the German senior leadership understand the allied air forces impact on moving troops and supplies to the battlefield ??? Ended up they couldn’t move during daylight without being attacked and many travel choke points damaged /destroyed.

@alanstrong55 Год назад

The defeat at Normandy gave Germany a chance to surrender to the Western Allies and protect itself from the advancing Red Army. Stalin would have been furious.

@657449 Год назад

With the open knowledge of their war crimes, how could they expect to negotiate a peace?

@alexfromboston8303 Год назад

The AI voice not lining up with your mouth at the end scares me for some reason.

@johnherosalvador2708 11 месяцев назад

I love reading comments of my fellow keyboard generals lol

@Richard68434 Год назад

H O W E V E R O W E V E R

@pj_ytmt-123 Год назад

A general who lost 100 000 men (2500-3000/day) and 225 panzers complaining that the State could not replace his losses is hard to describe. Good thing I never bought into the whole "Desert Fox" tale.

@redtobertshateshandles 2 месяца назад

Rommel had seen Allied airpower in North Africa and later experienced it personally in France. The other muppets had their heads in the sand.

@yurigabrilovich2190 Год назад

The end was inevitable, the beginning of the end of Fascism in Europe

@khuwahid4747 Год назад

Ale und nit Rommel ich mein fuhrer jepang

@christopherthrawn1333 Год назад

Sad to say Rommel was not fit for the defence. Rip Field Marshal Rommel.

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh Год назад

Yes! In that time he wasnt in so good shape like 1941 or 1942.

@jhodenaistus2801 Год назад

@@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh He poured his life into the North African campaign, so much so that it would commence the beginning of his ailing health.

@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh Год назад

@@jhodenaistus2801 I know! My grandad fought there for Axis powers during 1940-1943. The climate conditions there were extreme and Rommel was middleeuropean man. That land is just for Arabs. Not for white people.