The Bloody REVENGE of Erwin Rommel's SON and THE BRUTAL Last Days of the Desert Fox

Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox commander of the Afrika Korps did not die from his wounds in Normandy during World War II. On October fourteenth nineteen forty-four two generals arrived at his home in Herrlingen with a vial of cyanide and two options. Appear before the People's Court with consequences for his family or die in twenty minutes and receive a state funeral. The Gestapo had gathered statements from the conspirators of the July twentieth nineteen forty-four assassination attempt linking the field marshal to resistance against the Nazi regime. Hitler could not judge him publicly: the hero of El Alamein was the most popular general in Germany. The revenge of Rommel's son began when Manfred at fifteen was captured by General Jean de Lattre and revealed for the first time how his father had really died. Decades later he discovered that Rommel had a secret daughter named Gertrud Stemmer whose mother sold fruit at a market in Weingarten. Rommel acknowledged her in a life insurance policy because it was the only document where he could do so without visible consequences. Gertrud knitted the scarf that appears in all Afrika Korps photographs in North Africa. She answered the phone when Hitler called Herrlingen. For fifty-six years Gertrud was presented as Manfred's cousin. Manfred acknowledged her publicly at her funeral in the year two thousand. The letters Rommel wrote to Walburga Stemmer promising her a house where they would live together were published that same year by her son Anton. Lucie the official wife kept for decades letters where Rommel called Hitler the Master and decided they would not form part of any of the publications the family promoted about the field marshal during the nineteen fifties and sixties.