And that a WW2 survivor loves!

It’s like the history channel before it became garbage.

The shallow type?

i know right! its so good

Rommel once said, "If I had one days worth of the supplies wasted away on the OstFront, I'd conquer all of Africa and more!"

Really? That's very interesting. Thank you for the information.

Indeed, Manfred was the mayor of Stuttgart for 22 years.

@@BillinHungary a city twinned with Cardiff.

And their great grand children played War of Thunder together from time to time...

@@darrenchang2907 nice ( ◠‿◠ )

Sadly, Col David Stirling never met Manfred Rommel in the years following the war. Much the shame as it was Field Marshall Rommel who gave David Stirling the title of 'The Phantom Major'. Regards, John Stirling

Have you ever thought that the USASSHOLES were behind all this from day one

wonderful to know that 👍👍

It's crazy that Rommel's kid becomes friends with George Patton's kid.

Hmmm. I never new that Patton ever commanded against Rommel - and I’ve been researching for a lot of years. Who won?

Thats high class! Remembering to write thank you notes to the nurses who cared for you when you were injured in war.

@@BFP2021 Frau Rommel's writing of thankful letters to General Rommel's nurse was not uncommon in the first half or so of the 20th century amongst those of honor raised in a dignified class. After the early sixties, all pretense of dignity went out the window as the plurality if not majority of the world, for the most part, but certainly so in the U.S. became the undignified "me-me-me" generations which followed. Reference Hunter Biden and no, I am an apolitical independent disgusted by society's profound decline.

@@thewayback2920 I agree, Felton is a good choice.

I was introduced to Manfred Rommel when I worked in Germany in the 70's. We met on a number of occasions in Stuttgart, in what was then West Germany. My opinion of Manfred Rommel was that of a very open individual. We talked at length about his father, and in particular about the events surrounding the attack on the staff car carrying his father on the 17th July 1944 in Normandy. The definitive facts to as who it was that attacked Field Marshall Rommel's Staff Car were conveyed to his son by his father during his days in recovery after the event. Regardless, Manfred remained frustrated by the various claims being made that the attack on his father's Staff car was carried out by the Americans, South Africans, British, New Zealanders or Canadians. Of great personal interest, Manfred also conveyed that it was his father who named Col. David Stirling 'The Phantom Major'. Sadly, David Stirling and Manfred Rommel never met in the years following the War. Manfred died some years back but he left a legacy well remembered as the Mayor of Stuttgart. Kind regards. John Stirling

@@thewayback2920 Rule number one..... When a Canadian leaves a comment , you can be pretty sure its bull crap. Take it from a very old Canadian. You can't trust a word they say. Just look at when they leave these grandiose comments. Do you EVER see them respond to inquiries like yours sir ? I have traveled all over Canada , from sea to sea to sea and this is one of the traits Canadians all seem to have in common...that being an all encompassing pretense to dishonesty and being two faced . Even when i traveled 1/2 a world away and a Canadian came across me , it was the same ...

Okay ngl, that was pretty good

🤣

Awesome!

Had me in the first half, ngl.

My uncle fought with the 8th Army. My uncle also fought with the French Foreign Legion and the Royal Navy. He couldn't go into a military bar ANYWHERE without getting the crap beaten out of him.

Don't jinx that!!! SHHHHHHHhhhhh

I would love it if Mark put out all of his videos on a DVD series. I’d buy the set

Not especially. They are over dramatised and superficial in my opinion.

Although, he is asking for financial support.

@@MrYorickJenkins you mean they are not boring? Wouldn't watch some dreary academic presentation me.

Rommel lost at El Alamein, Tunisia and Normandy. You believe he is the best German general.

@@toms9864 Of course, the best. He was a master in the use of the panzerdivisionen. A natural genius of the blitzkrieg. He already made a name for himself with a daring move in 1917 on the Italian front which led to a very impressive victory. It was in his blood. The defeats you mention were due to a huge disparity of means. In Normandy he inflicted humiliating defeats on Montgomery. His defensive tactics were taken up by NATO to deal with the Warsaw Pact threat. A strategic and tactic genius corresponding well to Napoleon's pragmatic view of war as "an art made of execution". The Allies, especially the Westerners, only won the war against the Germans because they had infinitely superior means. The so-called "Rommel myth", which has been in vogue in the media recently, is in fact an unfounded myth. He really was the best. Even better than Guderian or von Manstein.

@@phil-sv1on "The Allies, especially the Westerners, only won the war against the Germans because they had infinitely superior means." You can say the Germans only did well at the beginning of the war because they were preparing for six years so all their equipment was modern and their troops were trained. When they lost air superiority their military was mediocre.

@@toms9864 The Germans lost every major campaign but the have a strong mystique about them.

@@warrenlewis3977 It was a German general that wrote the history on the European battles which is one of the reason why we hear so much more about the early part of WWII when Germans were having success.

Read somewhere recently, members of Rommel's staff were in contact with SHAEF though the OSS. So yeah, he was looking for a path to stop the war on the western front.

He didn't want to murder Hitler. He wanted him to be ousted by a coup and arrested. That was not feasible.

What do you mean ,because he's in a photo don't mean he was part of the plot.Rommel refused to join valkyrie

@@haroldalston3349 He wasn't involved directly, he knew of it, and he knew of the assasination too, he wasn't really supportive of this, but he didn't really mind either, cuz he knew in late 1944 that Hitler is completely idiot in terms of military.

@@haroldalston3349 But he was, not directly but he was ready to help.

Rommel was known for that apparently , he would have lunch with Captured Allied Senior Officer's, discuss the War, Politics, Culture etc. They all said he was very polite and not like the majority of Senior German staff.

The battles around Tobruk (1941)between the German/Italian troops and the Australian/Indian Infantry has been recorded as a "war without hate". Rommel's own men said he was a stickler for correct behavior, "no piggy business". I admire him for that.

@@davidrenton Hilarius - like these guys knew what "the majority of Senior German staff" was like.

your grandfather thought highly of a man taking orders from a freak like hitler..... you should be embarrassed

Stronk Serbia. Jeeze..at the time every human had to play their part in events bigger than anyone. No matter a situation we will still access any humanity shown by any other human.

Rommel: well I'm somewhat a killer of Rommel myself

why I always end up finding you in all the videos I watch 👁️👄👁️

That's in poor taste, friend.

@@wyattpeterson6286 a bit perhaps, but I believe the general would appreciate the humor.

@@leonardobastarrachea3058 because youtube reccomends content based on who we are subscribed to and the type of videos we watch. Apparently alot of Hoi4 KZfaqrs watch this channel

Rommel is ofcourse the most respected general of the allies

Rommels infantry attacks priciples have been 1 to 1 copied into the us army manual

And How,

Because Mark's format is too long for the angry mob. Also he's awesome and does his homework really, really well.

@@B20C0 when he made that comment it was in regard to an unknown, a what if that we couldn't ever know, because it wasn't allowed to play out.

@@B20C0 How dare you! Oh well Im too tired to argue. Tea perhaps?

@@B20C0 I second that! Very interesting each time.

I think this was fairly normal in that theater of the war. they respected each other, just as the pilots in the battle of britian did.

Wow amazing story

@@rooseveltdarbey9493 it's satire

nice..

desert is truly a lonely place...

One thing everyone accepts about the North African campaign was that it was fought 'cleanly.' No such executions ever took place.

Integrity is not good or bad, it is a way of life. RIP General and blessings to the sexy brown man from a pink guy, Ishwar now and forever.

​@@tommy6905you mean field marshal

Lmfao surrrrrre that happened lol

Wow

I could not agree more. I subscribe to several YT channels, but Mark's newest videos are the only ones that I routinely wait for and immediately watch.

Well said, Matt Gibbs, well said.

Well Said Sir!

What are some other good ones?

@@themadsnowballer Subscribe to this channel and look at the extensive library of former videos created by Dr. Felton.

Great story....thanks for sharing that!

Please tell us the rest of the story!

That is a fantastic story, thanks for sharing. I have met German vets in the past, and can concur!

Great story, thanks for sharing

damn bro you have lived an adventurous life

My Father was in the African Korps under General Rommel. He always maintained the highest respect for him, visited his graveside in Herrlingen at least 3 times during his lifetime. My Dad said that his soldiers would have done everything for him. They held him in highest regards.

What a legend.

As if I am going to believe someone with a swastika in his profile picture.

@@vegitoblue5000 dude, no one cares of you believe it or not, you really don't need to announce it

@@internetbodhi1009 👍🏻

I love the pfp and your sense of humor!

Glad it work out for you by the way i am part German as many are in the US

My Grandfather fought at Leningrad with the German Wehrmacht. He survived by hiding in a hollow tree before making his way back through Russian soldiers to the German line. He was shot and hospitalized multiple times. I saw what little of his paperwork and emblems survived before my sister lost them in a move.

Thanks for posting that. My Grandfather was shot in the face by a Japanese sniper on the island of Peleliu...I too wouldn't be here if he had not survived.

Yes - there were a lot of German POW camps in Texas and Oklahoma during the war - my family is from Oklahoma and my grandfather worked part-time in a POW camp, tending horses for the guards and building/repairing the fences - he got to know some of the POWs and said, most of them were just small time farmers, just like he was. If they spoke English, they would talk about growing up in the country on a farm, and how hard the work was. One of them knew some blacksmithing, so he made my grandfather a fireplace poker, out of iron rebar - I still have and use that poker in my fireplace.

@@dicebed Legitimately cool story bro

Hi David, agree, it was Charlie Fox who hit the Staff car carrying Field Marshall Erwin Rommel . Manfred Rommel, Field Marshall Rommel's son some years later recounted the event as told to him by his father during his father's recovery period in hospital following the attack. Regards, John Stirling

I don’t mean to be rude all respects to the guy but isn’t that death a little…ironic?

Well gee lets all thank Charlie for taking out the guy who possibly could've saved millions of lives on all sides.

@@mattstorm6568 he couldnt have saved anyone lets be honest, he might have been an absolute military genius but he was still a nazi

Ohhh, please. That's a bit rich. @@mattstorm6568

same

In all fairness, has Mark really ever made a bad one?

Hi, I had a feeling that there was going to be a bad ending to this storey!

It's a Felton Production

Mark is the Best, my Son told me about him & now I subscribed to him......Brilliant videos as always from Mark.

Cheers from cape cod Massachusetts mate

Cheers from Panama City Florida laddie

Clinck

Cheers from Airth, Forth Valley, Scotland.

Cheers from Oahu!

Ulm? You mean, the home of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft?

A great General, forced to commit suicide by Hitler for being accused of being part of the plot to kill Hitler. I think, had he lived, he may have had his life spared by the allies.

I was keep seeing "Rommel Bau" signs on Stuttgart. It was probably the biggest construction company in the area, also Stuttgart is pretty close to Ulm... Are those guys actually son/relative of the Erwin Rommel ? Do you have any info on that?

He was a general and fought hitler on many occasions and was part of Hitler's assassination attempt after he found out about killing of people in the camps

@@NuisanceMan Golly - what great Gobbledegook! I actually wasted a few seconds of my life reading it. Congratulations, in my eyes, you win "Gormo of the year!"...

You paint a fine picture.

The Brits always had a sort of admiring respect towards Rommel...even during the North Africa campaign, Churchill referred to him in the House of Commons as "a great general", and just 5 years after the war's end they made a remarkable movie about him called "The desert fox", starring the Brit actor James Mason, and based upon a bestselling book with the same name written by a former 8th Army soldier captured by the Afrika Korps who got to see the Field-Marshall in the desert.

Very good indeed. I had the same plan but the Covid foolishness has put it on hold for now.

They said Hello, and you heiled Hitler back ?

@@stargazer1744

Hitler was abstainer (and vegetarian).

@@fearofmusic1312 but was drugged up by his doctor daily. ''Hold my syringe''

@@fearofmusic1312 What point are you making? He also caused one of the largest genocides

@@archstanton6102 You just answered a fact, with another fact, which had no relevance at all xD

@@dxcpt I know that. I am trying to work out his 1st point, as to some they may be seen as him stating Hitler had good points.

I agree Nicholas. I didn't know about the choices he was offered, but really there was only one to choose.

I can hear the same sort of sad feeling from Dr Felton himself from his tone at the end of the clip

Rommel was considered to be a highly regarded tank Commander, with the Panzer tank at his behest, his Afrika Corp was considered the top in WW2, then they had him killed for an unfound treason.

@@johnt.4947 Historian William Shirer covers that in his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". Curiously, Shirer states that Von Rundstedt said that he did not know about this arrangement until he heard Keitel's evidence in the dock at Nuremberg.

James Mason plays this scene with great pathos in "The Desert Fox"

Wreath.

The word is "wreath", not "reef"!

Thanks for this. Great for you to bring it to light here. ER was a great man. In the Desert Campaign, a Canadian doctor who was there told me he'd come to the Allies' camps to check on his captured troops to see if they were o.k., then exchanging niceties, then simply go back to his side.

Australians also respected him...

@@williambodin5359 Have heard that there are those who lay reef(er) on Jim Hendrix's tomb. But that's another tomb all together.

Rommel won many of his victories with Italian troops.Also ,a lot of his early successes in N. Africa were due to an excellent source of information provided by Italian intelligence.Rommel called it "the good source". Once this wealth of information dried up, he began to lose.

@@KB-us3pz Interesting. Thanks for sharing that. So often the work of intelligence gets overlooked, taken for granted, or even ignored, such as in Operation Market Garden. The 1/7th Cavalry was sent into the IA Drang Valley with little to no intelligence on enemy forces located there and only survived due to the extensive close air support that was available to them.

That speaks volumes about the character of the man. I would have liked him as a boss.

@@josephryan9230 Rommel also committed war crimes and was an ardent Nazi, but I suppose people like the Rommel of Allied and German propaganda better than the real Rommel. "Newer research has exposed Wehrmacht war crimes in North Africa. This opposes the term "War without hate" which is used by some authors to describe the North African Campaign.[95] Giordana Terracina writes that: "On April 3, the Italians recaptured Benghazi and a few months later the Afrika Korps led by Rommel was sent to Libya and began the deportation of the Jews of Cyrenaica in the concentration camp of Giado and other smaller towns in Tripolitania. This measure was accompanied by shooting, also in Benghazi, of some Jews guilty of having welcomed the British troops, on their arrival, treating them as liberators."[96] Jews from all around Cyrenaica and Benghazi were deported into Italy for forced labour. At the Giado concentration camp, a survivor by the name of Sion Burbea testifies that he witnessed Erwin Rommel inspecting their work at the camp.[97] Some historians directly connect Rommel with the war crimes of the Wehrmacht in North Africa. According to German historian Wolfgang Proske, Rommel forbade his soldiers from buying anything from the Jewish population of Tripoli, used Jewish slave labour and commanded Jews to clear out minefields by walking on them ahead of his forces.[98] Proske also claims that Jews in Tripoli were later sent to Concentration Camps.[99] The Wehrmacht's persecution of Jews continued into 1942. According to the publication Jewish Communities of the World edited by Anthony Lerman, in 1942 during the German occupation, the Benghazi quarter that housed the Jewish population was plundered and 2000 Jews were deported across the desert, out of which circa a fifth of them had perished.[100] Jews in Benghazi were also victims of a pogrom in 1942 [101] The Moment Magazine reports: "on orders from the German military commander, the Axis forces, in 1942, plundered Jewish shops and deported 2,600 Benghazi Jews to Giado".[102] Robert Satloff writes in his book Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands that as the German and Italian forces retreated across Libya towards Tunisia, the Jewish population became victims upon which they released their anger and frustration. According to Satloff, Afrika Korps soldiers plundered Jewish property all along the Libyan coast. This violence and persecution only came to an end with the arrival of General Montgomery in Tripoli on January 23, 1943.[103] German historian Clemens Vollnhals writes that the use of Jews by Afrika Korps as forced labour is barely known, but it did happen alongside persecution of Jewish population (although on smaller scale than in Europe) and some of the labourers were worked to death.[104] The persecution of Jews by the Wehrmacht continued into Tunisia. According to several historians, allegations and stories that associate Rommel and the Afrika Korps with the harassing and plundering of Jewish gold and property in Tunisia are usually known under the name "Rommel's treasure" or "Rommel's gold".[105][106][107] Other historians, however, state that Rommel had nothing to do with the treasure, and that "Rauff's treasure would be a more appropriate name.[108][109] When the Wehrmacht entered Tunisia, they ordered the establishment of a Judenrat and Jews were subject to forced labour.[110] 2,000 Jewish men were forcefully conscripted, and a few thousand more would be conscripted later on. This forced labour was used in extremely dangerous situations near targets of bombing raids, facing hunger and violence.[111]"

I've never met a single historian or lifetime officer or GI who has spoken badly of him.

No, he wasn’t. Unless you back it up with his and your name and historical references, you are a nobody desperately trying to live on the deeds of far greater men and times.

I'm not surprised. You didn't rise to the top of the ranks, particularly the German Army, without being an SOB, at a minimum.

Rommel was a nice man with his subordinates, but he was very demanding to his peers superiors and his inmediate subordinates.

@@tamilly7941 Not to mention any Italians he was around. He had very little respect for the Italian Army

@@scottpeters371 Can you blame him?

@@scottpeters371 Well, he was a good man with his Italian forces, of course he didn't respected an army who was whiped from every campaign, but thanks to Rommel they even fought the tank vs tank against the British and manage to win by the first time at the Battle of Bir El Gubri

Also, the German Navy had a destroyer (1970-1999) named after Rommel.

If Rommel were truly a good man he would not commit war crimes or support the Nazi cause fervently.

When you look into this topic, you find many other German Army officers who were in the same situation. That was also the reason why not many of them were sentenced to death in Nurenberg.

@@jakublulek3261 Rather, they were left alone to allow the myth of the clean Whermacht to spread.

@@condedooku9750 That was another reason. But considering West Germany needed experience army officers, Western Allies let it slide.

"My Name is Joe Roberts i work for the State..........."

Rommel is a long way from being one of the greatest General of all time, even in Germany. Many of his victories appeared spectacular but in reality lacked substance. Because he failed to realise the importance of objectives and logistics. In fact Rommels image as a great general was created by the Nazi protagonist Joseph Goebbels and many of the photographs we now have of him looking like a film star on the battle field were actually posed to create this myth.

@@johnbrereton5229 To be fair it also suited the British to say how good he was as they beat him.

The "History" channel is for simple folk who want entertainment, not education.

@@denisegore1884 the History Channel is a joke.

100% !

Do you comprehend the crimes he assisted with, defended and presided over? Crimes like murder, torture, terror, rape, theft, eco obliteration and genocide. nazi is as nazi does.

@@ccrider3435 Please stop with the dramatics.

@@ccrider3435 need i remind you of the bombing of Dresden, a city targeted by the british specifically to cause mass loss of civilian life? most of these "atrocities" you speak of were committed by foriegn ost-legions, majority of them were committed by the Estonian SS, not 1 general lol

@@ccrider3435 Rommel never was a Nazi party member. He was one of the v few soldiers who did not join the party despite INTENSE pressure to do so. Easy to judge from a keyboard.

Just think about why German Civilians was so happy when Allies won the war. Yes people in germany seen Allies as liberators against Nazi. Remember Nazi didn't came to power or hitler by an election. Hitler didn't win in the Election nor his Party. For many germans Nazi is not Germany and also.. Not all Nazi are germans only there's a lot of Nationality that are Part of Nazi despite not even Germans. There are even NAZI in america during the heights of war in europe

Get well soon!

@@MarkFeltonProductions Is World War 2 era your main focus? Can you do 1980s onwards? I'd like to hear your take about my friend Saddam.

@@osamabinladen824 I want only ww11 videos..views would drop if he did that @Mark Felton productions

@@MarkFeltonProductions thank you so much! :) you're the best

Ironic.

@Andy Man I remember too that James Jabara, the first US jet ace, also died in a car wreck.

Canada wins again. Punching above our weight! First the Red Baron then Rommel. Too bad no one tasked a Canadian to take out the Ol’nosestacio’d one himself. It would’ve been a classic “pack yer bags fella’s, wars over” situation.

@Andy Man Trudy or Trudope... actually

He hated Hitler

The desert 🦊🏝️

Rommel was first and foremost a soldier from everything I’ve seen and read about him he just unfortunately for him had a man at the helm that was embittered egotistical bigoted non negotiable leader that had no respect for life including his own German people the day he did the only option open to him for me says everything about the substance of the man he fought hard in that war but shouldn’t all soldiers reguardless of what side ur on but like I said before from what I’ve read he fought fair ( not easy in a war ) where revenge is ever lingering in the background for me he seems to have been an honourable man that would have been an asset to any army of any nation in a conflict he cared for his own men and pows which tells me the was no malice in him he was just a soldier soldering

@@kendodd8734 very good Statement, I agree 200%. to bad there were not more like him!

My old man did as well.....Libya and Egypt 1939 through '45. He had huge respect for Rommel but ironically wasn't too keen on Montgomery! :)

Grass is always greener on the other side...

Rommel was admired and respected by many allied troop who did not have the same respect for Monty.

@@user-njyzcip Meaning what?

Perhaps your father had a Scottish antipathy towards the English, as part of it?

@@watching99134 So you are assuming that because he was Scottish he was anti-English? If you are, you're wrong. He was in the British Army & proud of it.

Sind die noch am leben ?

General Rommel deeply loved his wife and son and didn't want any harm to come to them so when offered the chance to protect his family he chose suicide (I believe the story goes (from William Shrier's book-the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) that he was provided cyanide capsules and he was given a full military funeral after this

There are some names from WW1 that are hilariously more german...

Enter stage right , General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen

@@glaslynx123 KLAP!

He might not be a general, but there's this guy named Baron Helmut Schnitzelnazi.

@@bgtcsjm got that reference🤣

He looks like a weasel.

@@johnsmith1474 weasels are dangerous creatures.

@@johnsmith1474 Never underestimate a weasel. They get in where people say it is impossible to get in.

@@johnsmith1474 Weasels kill for fun, like they murder dozens of rodents.. for fun. lol.

???? everyone knows what happened to him

Manstien was well respected too

He could only ever hope to stretch out the inevitable defeat. He knew this. It was all over.

@@Fiberous_Pulley manstein* :)

@@martyfeldman3269 he was the head of hitlers personal bodyguard and happily went along. The fondness by people to him is shocking to me.

@@Fiberous_Pulley his defense of the wehrmacht cost him much of the respect the allies had for him

Wow the stories he must have

One of the lessons must have been "how to avoid strafing airplanes".

So in a way, you were trained by the Desert fox!

@@TheDudiest3Dude Yes!

a decent human being?? He was a Nazi Field Marshal during WW2. No such thing as decent.

With one exception concerning Rommel's story. A lesser known Appalachian country boy named Jerry Skinner.

@@white_heat.truth76 I’ll look him up. Thanks.

Obviously. He was the one who said 'we fought the wrong enemy' .

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Thanks for that information, it is often surprising what these channels prompt.

Ste Foy de Montgomery fits the story better of course. As with Flight Lieutenant Charley Fox.

Imagine in 80 years how much the table will be worth

Aha, a grand table fit for a feast no less.

This is why you read comments on a Mark Felton video

Brilliant!

I just watched " The Desert Fox’ with James Mason, a very good film!!

Hi Eric. Manfred Rommel, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's son, confirmed that the attack on his father's Staff car was carried out by a Spitfire and it was a frontal attack, as maintained by Charley Fox's reporting of events and consistant with Erwin Rommel's medical records and the injuries inflicted on his face when a 303 round shattered the windscreen of the Staff car, showering Rommel's face with splinters of glass. Erwin Rommel was seated in the front of the vehicle next to the Driver. There is some debate as to the make of the Staff car carrying Field Marshall Rommel at the time of the attack, especially as the remains of the vehicle after the attack left it in total ruin and unrecognisable. However, Manfred Rommel maintained that on this particular occasion due to the significance of his father's mission, and the fact the enemy knew he generally used a horchst vehicle, he commandeered a different vehicle from what was a considerable motor pool to choose from, which includied a number of Italian vehicles. As usual, Field Marshall Rommel used his trusted driver, regardless of the choice of vehicle. Regards John Stirling

@@johnstirling9358 Fascinating stuff. Thanks, John.

My Late Father Knew Mr Fox Very Well May He And My Dear Dad Rest In Peace Always

No one: Mark Felton: Rommel's brilliance peaked when he killed the elusive General Erwin Rommel

In Edward G. Robinsons voice "We're gonna rub him out.......See!"

Read the book The Desert Fox by Brigadier Desmond Young, who was captured by the Afrika Korps in North Africa. Tragic on so many levels...

@@vonfragesq7145 Dude, _EXACTLY!_

@@vonfragesq7145 N'yeah!

@@RichardM333 The Americans disliked them, the British and French hated them, but the Russians wanted them all dead

Good comment. Interesting

I was going to make the same comment! I love how Mark pronounces the names, I would have butchered them!

He's not bad for an Englishman but his "-ch" sound is bad (sounds like "sh" instead of a short clipped 'x' [hard to describe typing]).

U maakt zeer goede videos! :)

@Prince Harambe so true

you might call it "heroic" in the true sense of the word.

Imagine Rommels reaction when he heard about operation Barbarossa. The war was lost that day.

When you r with Hitler you have no other option

The so-called "choice" offered to Rommel was: 1) take suicide pill, be celebrated as hero, and know that his family would be allowed to live, or 2) refuse, go through a show trial, at which point both he and his family will be tortured and murdered as traitors, with all property seized.

@@Kodakcompactdisc I think you're being a bit simplistic. You can't bring 2022 reasoning to 1941. Rommel was first and foremost a soldier, a loyal German soldier who depite his misgivings concluded that Hitler's management of the war in the West in 1940 was the work of genius. I imagine as time went on he became more aware of what Germany was going to be up against if the Russia and the United States came into the war and might have been a bit more circumspect in 1941 but he never saw the German army as a beaten docket by any means. The video makes it clear that Rommel questioned Hitler's handling of the war, not the war itself.

Stirling was very likely far to the right of Rommel politically. The myth of the good war continues.

@@brencelt that may be true But war is hellish enough, and when the fighting is over then a lot of men and women usually continue to treat their prisoners as punching bags. If not worse. Having a man like Rommel on the scene made both sides fight much more honourably

According to Manfred Rommel that Hitler, upon hearing of Col. David Stirlings capture, sent orders to have him executed. Field Marshall Rommell apparently ran interference and the order was never carried out. Monty's son befriended Manfred Rommel years after the war, sadly, David Stirling never met Manfred Rommel in the years following. Regards John Stirling

Some stuffed shirt British generals disliked the SAS long range desert patrol tactics as being 'not cricket' but Rommel respected them and their bravery, even though they were such a thorn in his butt many times.

@@johnkidd1226 Hi John. David Stirling faced considerable resistance from many quaters within the military establishment, primarily because he was unorthodox in his tactics and also because of his risk taking. The results, as history has shown, that David Stirling, Jock Lewes, Paddy Mayne, Johnny Cooper, Graham Rose and their colleagues, inflicted considerable damage upon Field Marshall Rommel's forces. It is true to say that due to the efforts of the SAS turned the tide of war in North Africa. Rommel's son Manfred retold the story of his fathers frustration with the SAS and with David Stirling in particular. He named David Stirling 'The Phantom Major' initially out of annoyance but apparently his view quickly softened to that of respect. It was apparently this change of position that initiated Field Marshal Rommels intervention blocking Hitler's order to have 'The Phantom Major' executed when he (David Stirling) was captured. Hope this is helpful. Kind regards John stirling

I have a copy of that too but haven't read it yet.

@Byron Manza oh, I’m sure he already has a copy or two. It’s a pretty famous book.👍

Truly edgier than the katana I have dedicated my life to studying.

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Where is the high school? I never knew about him...

@@johnarmstrong472 Clarke Road Secondary School in London, Ontario, Canada.

Manfred Rommel, Field Marshall Rommel's son, confirmed that his father's Staff car was attacked front on by a Spitfire, which is consistant with Charley Fox's reporting of the attack and consistant with the injuries received to Field Marshall Rommel's face as a result of a 303 bullet shattering the windscreen of the Staff car. Rommel sat in the front seat next to his trusted driver. All the evidence thus far supports the arguement for Charley Fox as the one responsible for the attack on Field Marshall Rommel's vehicle. Regards, John Stirling