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228. Ibid, 378–379.
229. Ibid, 377.
230. Ibid, 376, 377; Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 254.
231. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 379.
232. Ibid, 383.
233. Ibid, 385.
234. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 254.
235. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 391–392.
236. Ibid, 392.
237. Ibid, 394.
238. Ibid, 398.
239. Ibid, 406–407.
240. Berndt, quoted in The Rommel Papers, 411.
241. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 407.
242. Ibid, 404.
243. Ibid, 407, 409.
244. Ibid, 412.
245. Ibid, 412.
246. Ibid, 414.
247. Ibid, 415–416.
248. Ibid, 419.
249. Ibid, 425.
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250. Manfred quoting Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 425.
251. Bayerlein quoting Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 451.
252. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 427–428.
253. Ibid, 431.
254. Ibid, 432.
255. Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. IX, 646.
256. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 445.
257 The surgery removed Rommel’s appendix, but not his sense of humor. When Lucie made a passing remark about the zipper-like scar left by the appendectomy, Rommel smile wryly and said “Well, you’ll just have to look the other way, won’t you?”
258. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 307–308.
259. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 447.
260. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 313.
261. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 461.
262. Ibid, 429; Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 313
263. Longford, Wellington: The Years of The Sword, 92; Ryan, The Longest Day, 23, 28.
264. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 468.
265. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 315.
266. Meise, in a private letter to William W. James; the original resides in the archives of the Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.
267. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 461.
268. Ibid, 461–462.
269. Ibid, 462.
270. Rommel’s old command would come to a sad end: the Goslar Jäger Battalion would be all but annihilated by the Soviet Army in January 1945; very few of the jägers were captured alive and of those only a handful would survive long enough to return to Germany in the mid-1950s.
271. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 463.
272. Beckett, Rommel: A Reappraisal, 120.
273. Ryan, The Longest Day, 25.
274. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 463–464.
275. Ibid, 455.
276. Ibid, 456.
277. Ryan, The Longest Day, 27–28.
278. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 465.
279. There are several interations of the encounter between Rommel and Lane, all of which agree on the significant aspects, and differ only in the details. This recounting is taken from George Lane’s obituary in The Daily Telegraph, (London), 26 March 2010.
280. Mitcham, The Desert Fox in Normandy, 79.
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281. As if to add insult to injury, the hand-made shoes Rommel purchased in Paris for Lucie’s birthday did not fit properly.
282. Pyle, Brave Men, 390–391.
283. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 470.
284. Ibid, 467–468
285. Ibid, 474–476.
286. Ibid, 476.
287. Ibid, 491–492.
288. Wheeler-Bennett, The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918–1945, 604.
289. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 479.
290. Showalter, Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century, 356.
291. Messenger, The Last Prussian, 197.
292. Geyr von Schweppenburg, Die Verteidigung des Westens, 200.
293. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 481.
294. Ibid, 496.
295. Ibid, 486–487.
296. Fraser, Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, 507.
297. Messenger, Hitler’s Gladiator, 212.
298. Fest, Hitler—Eine Biographie, 961.
299. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 500–501.
300 Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 372.
301. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 372.
302. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 428.
303. Ibid, 496.
304. Rommel, quoted in Hansen, Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie, 54, 56.
305. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 429, 486, 496.
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306. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 493.
307. Ibid, 493.
308 Hansen, Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie, 63.
309. Hoffman, History of the German Resistance, 1933–1945, 526.
310. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 430.
311. Ibid, 430.
312. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1077, 1393.
313. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 495.
314. Ibid, 495.
315. Ibid, 496.
316. Ibid, 499.
317. Ibid, 497.
318. Jodl diaries, National Archives, film T84/149.
319. Young, Rommel The Desert Fox, 251.
320. Irving, The Trail of the Fox, 436.
321. Young, Rommel The Desert Fox, 252.
322. Ibid, 254.
323. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 502.
324. Ibid, 502.
325. Young, Rommel The Desert Fox, 255.
326. Rommel, The Rommel Papers, 503.
327. Ibid, 503–504.
328. Marshall, The Rommel Murder: The Life and Death of the Desert Fox, 158.
329. Young, Rommel The Desert Fox, 261.
330. Ibid, 263.
331. Brighton, Masters of Battle: Monty, Patton and Rommel at War, 318.
332. Young, Rommel The Desert Fox, 270–271.
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Records of the German General Staff: T78/324-326.
War Diary of the Oberkommando des Wehrmacht (O.K.W.): T77/780.
Diaries of Col-Gen. Alfred Jodl, the Chief of Operations for the O.K.W.: T84/149, 268.
War diaries of the Afrika Korps, Panzerarmee Afrika, Heeresgruppe Afrika: T314/2, 15, 16, 18, 21, 23; T313/416, 423, 430, 467, 471–475, 480.
War Diaries of Army Group B and Component Units: T314/1263, 1264, 1270, T315/2371.
Fifteenth Army: T312/534, T312/509, 514, 516.
Seventh Army: T312/1564.
Panzer Group West/Fifth Panzer Army: T313/420.
LXVII Corps: T314/1533.
LXXXI Corps: T314/1589.
LXXXII Corps: T314/1601.
LXXVIII Corps: T314/1620.
War Diary of the German Army Personnel Branch: T78/39.
Bundesarchiv—Militararchiv, Freiburg-am-Breisgau
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War Diaries of Oberbefehlshaber West: BA–MA RH19-IV/8,9,10, 11, 27, 31, 33, 39, 88, 89.
Unpublished manuscript: BA-MA N 20/2.
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