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Infanterie grieft an (Infantry Attacks)
By (at the time) Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel
Before i begin let me say its great to be back in the US. Deployment was an interesting experience and im glad i was able to go. So many memories that will stay with me forever and that if you know where to look, you can see the difference that you make. But I'm really happy I was able to find this locally while not even looking for it but still knowing i wanted to buy a copy when giving the chance. Now all that's really left on my list is "A Happy Odyssey" by Lieutenant Colonel Adrain Carton de Wiart and "Achtung, Panzer!" by Generalmajor Heinz Geudarian.
Infantry Attacks is generally considered one of the greatest set of memoirs of WWI from the German perspective. Written by and following the career of a young Platoon Leader Rommel it takes the reader through nearly every step of the war from the Battles of the Frontier on the German-Belgian-Luxembourgish Borders with a Reconnaissance Comoany, into the Woods of The Argonne, to The Race to the Sea in Belgium, through the horrors of Trench Warfare, and how not only High Command, but also Lower levels all the way down to the Company and Platoon level of echelons thought hard and worked to solve the problem and stalemate on not just the more famous Western Front, but also in the Carpathians in the Balkans. In 1917 new training and tactics began to be implemented into the German Army to cross through No Man's Land, attack, raid, and distrubt enemy lines, before returning back. These Men belonged to new units called Sturmkompanies and the men known as Sturmtruppen. Rommel describes his thinking and ways of implementing his newly trained and equipped men to break through Italian lines in the 12th (yes there were 11 previous battles in this location during WW1) of Isonzo. Rommel ever the charismatic leader would always lead his men from the front, going with them and "Going Through the Suck" with his men, to the point that his men would say.
"Where ever Rommel is, There is the Front."
Rommel after the War would pay close attention to the development of the Internal Combustion Engine and the evolution of Tanks, and with the combined impact of Generalmajor Heinz Geudarian's "Achtung-Panzer!" also released in the same year of 1937, would truly set in stone in the high echelons of German Army Command of the already indevelopment Bewegungskrieg (Maneuver War), which once war began in 1939 would be dubbed by propaganda and the west as Blitzkrieg, Lightning War.
As the line from Sabaton's Stormtroopers go
A Glimpse of the Future
New Tactics in War
New Doctrine in Combat Explored
As Fast as Lightning
There's No Time to Mourn
A Glimpse of the Future
And Blitzkrieg is Born
Through his time as the Commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (DAK) fighting in Toburk, El Alamein, Kasarine Pass, and more, where he would just as he did in WW1 would be at thr front with his men and troops. Rommel planned on taking his experience and knowledge gained and writing a follow up book, "Panzer Greift An" (Tank Attacks) but after a failed assassination of Adolf Hitler where his name was mentioned and while recivering from a strafing run he had be injured from during the Invasion of Normandy, Rommel was giving an ultimatum, either face up in a rigged trial and be sentenced to death and have your family sent to the Concentration Camps, or swallow your dignity and end your life where your family will be safe and you'll get a full honors funeral. Rommel decided to take his own life on the 14th of October, 1944.
Rommel is a highly divisive man, either loved or hated depending on how you decide to view history. But his contribution to the thought and doctrine of Warfare can not be understated and that Modern War, if not for him, might look very different.
Links to further research on Manuver Warfare, Development of German Armored Forces between WW1 and WW2, Rommel himself, and more can be found in these links below.
Development of the German Panzer Arm in the Interwar Period by Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas "The Chieftain" Moran: https://youtu.be/pbKAg4SRW_U
Erwin Rommel's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
The Wikipedia on Bewegungeskrieg/Blitzkrieg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg
Wikipedia on Manuever Warfare: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare
Before i begin let me say its great to be back in the US. Deployment was an interesting experience and im glad i was able to go. So many memories that will stay with me forever and that if you know where to look, you can see the difference that you make. But I'm really happy I was able to find this locally while not even looking for it but still knowing i wanted to buy a copy when giving the chance. Now all that's really left on my list is "A Happy Odyssey" by Lieutenant Colonel Adrain Carton de Wiart and "Achtung, Panzer!" by Generalmajor Heinz Geudarian.
Infantry Attacks is generally considered one of the greatest set of memoirs of WWI from the German perspective. Written by and following the career of a young Platoon Leader Rommel it takes the reader through nearly every step of the war from the Battles of the Frontier on the German-Belgian-Luxembourgish Borders with a Reconnaissance Comoany, into the Woods of The Argonne, to The Race to the Sea in Belgium, through the horrors of Trench Warfare, and how not only High Command, but also Lower levels all the way down to the Company and Platoon level of echelons thought hard and worked to solve the problem and stalemate on not just the more famous Western Front, but also in the Carpathians in the Balkans. In 1917 new training and tactics began to be implemented into the German Army to cross through No Man's Land, attack, raid, and distrubt enemy lines, before returning back. These Men belonged to new units called Sturmkompanies and the men known as Sturmtruppen. Rommel describes his thinking and ways of implementing his newly trained and equipped men to break through Italian lines in the 12th (yes there were 11 previous battles in this location during WW1) of Isonzo. Rommel ever the charismatic leader would always lead his men from the front, going with them and "Going Through the Suck" with his men, to the point that his men would say.
"Where ever Rommel is, There is the Front."
Rommel after the War would pay close attention to the development of the Internal Combustion Engine and the evolution of Tanks, and with the combined impact of Generalmajor Heinz Geudarian's "Achtung-Panzer!" also released in the same year of 1937, would truly set in stone in the high echelons of German Army Command of the already indevelopment Bewegungskrieg (Maneuver War), which once war began in 1939 would be dubbed by propaganda and the west as Blitzkrieg, Lightning War.
As the line from Sabaton's Stormtroopers go
A Glimpse of the Future
New Tactics in War
New Doctrine in Combat Explored
As Fast as Lightning
There's No Time to Mourn
A Glimpse of the Future
And Blitzkrieg is Born
Through his time as the Commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps (DAK) fighting in Toburk, El Alamein, Kasarine Pass, and more, where he would just as he did in WW1 would be at thr front with his men and troops. Rommel planned on taking his experience and knowledge gained and writing a follow up book, "Panzer Greift An" (Tank Attacks) but after a failed assassination of Adolf Hitler where his name was mentioned and while recivering from a strafing run he had be injured from during the Invasion of Normandy, Rommel was giving an ultimatum, either face up in a rigged trial and be sentenced to death and have your family sent to the Concentration Camps, or swallow your dignity and end your life where your family will be safe and you'll get a full honors funeral. Rommel decided to take his own life on the 14th of October, 1944.
Rommel is a highly divisive man, either loved or hated depending on how you decide to view history. But his contribution to the thought and doctrine of Warfare can not be understated and that Modern War, if not for him, might look very different.
Links to further research on Manuver Warfare, Development of German Armored Forces between WW1 and WW2, Rommel himself, and more can be found in these links below.
Development of the German Panzer Arm in the Interwar Period by Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas "The Chieftain" Moran: https://youtu.be/pbKAg4SRW_U
Erwin Rommel's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
The Wikipedia on Bewegungeskrieg/Blitzkrieg: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg
Wikipedia on Manuever Warfare: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare
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