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Erwin Rommel
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Erwin Rommel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1891
Born: November 15
Died: 1944
Died: October 14
Military Officer
Resistance Fighter
Soldier
Heidenheim/Brenz
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
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Wüstenfuchs
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More quotes by Erwin Rommel
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil
Erwin Rommel
It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
Erwin Rommel
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Erwin Rommel
Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.
Erwin Rommel
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
Erwin Rommel
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
Erwin Rommel
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
Erwin Rommel
The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.
Erwin Rommel
For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.
Erwin Rommel
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel
One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
Erwin Rommel
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.
Erwin Rommel
There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.
Erwin Rommel
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel
In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare.
Erwin Rommel
It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.
Erwin Rommel
The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.
Erwin Rommel
The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo
Erwin Rommel
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
Erwin Rommel
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
Erwin Rommel