Erwin Johannes Rommel was born in 1891 and he joined the German Army as a cadet in 1910. During World War I he served as an infantry lieutenant with the German Army in Italy, Romania and France. For ...

A daring little-known mission by the SAS to 'kill or kidnap' Erwin Rommel during World War Two has been revealed 80 years later. After his French castle fortress was discovered by SAS Major Bill ...

Erwin Rommel, the World War Two German field marshal celebrated as the brilliant and humane “Desert Fox”, is portrayed in a new film as a weak man torn by his loyalty to Adolf Hitler and the dawning ...

German authorities are to rename Stuttgart Airport after the son of Nazi general Erwin Rommel. Manfred Rommel, who died last November aged 84, served as the mayor of Stuttgart for 22 years. Under new ...

Erwin Rommel, probably the best-known German soldier of the Second World War, was considered to be a chivalrous and humane general, even by the Allied forces who fought him. 19 December 2008 • 1:01am ...