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The Rommel Papers
Erwin Rommel
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Frases célebres de Erwin Rommel
“El soldado alemán ha asombrado al mundo, el Bersagliere italiano ha asombrado al soldado alemán.”
Escrito de Rommel en la placa dedicada a los Bersaglieri que combatieron en Marsa Matruh y El Alamein.
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últimas palabras de Rommel a los dos generales antes de tomarse una cápsula de cianuro.
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Erwin Rommel Frases y Citas
Al referirse a los esfuerzos por atrincherarse al llegar a una nueva posición en los bosques de Dun.
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Fuente: Infanterie greift an (1937).
Citado por B. Liddell Hart como «la mejor y más corta descripción jamás escrita de lo que significa el concepto de Blitzkrieg».
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Fuente: The Rommel Papers.
“Sería mucho más feliz si me hubiese dado otra división.”
Comentario en una carta a su esposa Lucie después de que Hitler le nombrase mariscal de campo del Afrika Korps tras la caida de Tobruk en 1942.
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Fuente: The Rommel Papers.
Conversación entre Rommel, su hijo Manfred y el capitán Aldinger, minutos antes de elegir la muerte por cianuro en lugar del juicio y posterior persecución de su familia y estado mayor, tras ser implicado en un complot para asesinar a Adolf Hitler.
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Fuente: The Rommel Papers.
“En combate cercano, la victoria es del que tiene una bala más en el cargador.”
Rommel escribe que aprendió esta lección por sí mismo en combate, tras darse de bruces contra una patrulla francesa de cinco hombres. Logró abatir a disparos a dos de ellos, y al agotar la munición del fusil no tuvo más remedio que cargar a la bayoneta contra los restantes, que conservaron la suficiente presencia de ánimo para dispararle (hiriéndole en el muslo izquierdo) y retirarse.
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Fuente: Infanterie greift an (1937).
Discurso de final de curso realizado en la academia militar de Wiener Neustadt en su etapa como director de la misma, en 1938. Citado por el general Fritz Bayerlein.
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Fuente: The Rommel Papers.
“Caballeros, han luchado como leones, y sido dirigidos como mulas.”
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Comentado a oficiales británicos capturados en Tobruk.
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Erwin Rommel: Frases en inglés
“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”
Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Fuente: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”
This is cited to to Rommel's Infanterie Greift An [Infantry Attacks] (1937) in World War II : The Definitive Visual History (2009) by Richard Holmes, p. 128, and Timelines of History (2011) by DK Publishing, p. 392, but to George S. Patton, in Patton's Principles : A Handbook for Managers Who Mean It! (1982) by Porter B. Williamson as well as Leadership (1990) by William Safire and Leonard Safir, p. 47
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Fuente: Rommel: In His Own Words
“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.”
Variante: Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Fuente: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 244.
Fuente: Attacks
Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Krieg ohne Haß
In the preamble written by his wife of the 1953 edition published by the publishing house "Heidenheimer Zeitung", she clearly states that all the chapter titles as well as the book title were chosen by the editors, thus not Erwin Rommel himself.
Fuente: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 262.[[Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.]]
Contexto: The Italian command was, for the most part, not equal to the task of carrying on war in the desert, where the requirement was lightning decision followed by immediate action. The training of the Italian infantryman fell far short of the standard required by modern warfare. … Particularly harmful was the all pervading differentiation between officer and man. While the men had to make shift without field-kitchens, the officers, or many of them, refused adamantly to forgo their several course meals. Many officers, again, considered it unnecessary to put in an appearance during battle and thus set the men an example. All in all, therefore, it was small wonder that the Italian soldier, who incidentally was extraordinarily modest in his needs, developed a feeling of inferiority which accounted for his occasional failure and moments of crisis. There was no foreseeable hope of a change for the better in any of these matters, although many of the bigger men among the Italian officers were making sincere efforts in that direction.
“Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life.”
Address as Director of the Military School in Weiner Neustadt at the passing out parade of the 1938 class of cadets.
A note by General Bayerlein in the Rommel Papers (1953), edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. p. 241.[[War without Hate ]]
Contexto: Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't, in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
Fuente: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XXIII : The Sky Has Grown Dark, p. 523.
Fuente: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. V : Graziani's Defeat - Cause and Effect, p. 96.
Contexto: When a commander has won a decisive victory - and Wavell's victory over the Italians was devastating - it is generally wrong for him to be satisfied with too narrow a strategic aim. For that is the time to exploit success. It is during the pursuit, when the beaten enemy is still dispirited and disorganised, that most prisoners are made and most booty captured. Troops who on one day are flying in a wild panic to the rear, may, unless they are continually harried by the pursuer, very soon stand in battle again, freshly organised as fully effective fighting men.
As quoted in Dirty Little Secrets : Military Information You're Not Supposed To Know (1990) by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi, p. 50
Strategies he promoted which have been called Blitzkrieg (Lightning War), as quoted in Europe Since 1914 (1966) by Gordon Alexander Craig
Ch XVIII : Back to Tunisia, p. 393.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Ch XV : Alamein in Retrospect, p. 327.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
Ch XIII : Now or Never - Alam Halfa, p. 285.
The Rommel Papers (1953)
“Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.”
Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
Fuente: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 28.
“Gentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.”
Said to captured British officers during the Siege of Tobruk, as quoted in The Guinness History of the British Army (1993) by John Pimlott, p. 138
On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
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On the plaque dedicated to the Bersaglieri http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TargaRommel.jpg that fought at Mersa Matruh and Alamein.
