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After the war Captain Aldinger resumed his landscaping business.
Kurt Hesse never completed the biography of Rommel, which I had agreed to translate, as a result of a falling-out he had with Mrs. Rommel.
Upon the appeal of General Speidel to General Eisenhower in behalf of Mrs. Rommel, Eisenhower ordered Rommel's battlefield letters to be returned to the widow. In Washington search after unsuccessful search for the letters was undertaken. Finally they were located. They had been filed under Rommel's first name, Erwin.
Mrs. Lucie-Maria Rommel died in Stuttgart on September 26,197 1, and is buried in Herrlingen beside her husband.