Frases de Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Data de nascimento: 15. Novembro 1891
Data de falecimento: 14. Outubro 1944
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel , apelidado de "A Raposa do Deserto", foi um general marechal-de-campo do exército alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Rommel ficou mundialmente famoso por sua intervenção na África do Norte entre 1941 e 1943, no comando do Afrika Korps, um destacamento do exército alemão destinado a auxiliar as forças italianas que então batiam em retirada frente ao exército britânico. Por sua audácia e domínio das táticas de guerra com blindados, granjeou o apelido de A Raposa do Deserto e entre os árabes como O Libertador .
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Citações Erwin Rommel
„Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.“
— Erwin Rommel, Rommel: In His Own Words
Disputed, 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
„War without Hate“
— Erwin Rommel
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.
„Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.“
— Erwin Rommel
Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 244.
„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.“
— Erwin Rommel
Context: 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.
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.]]
„Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life.“
— Erwin Rommel
Context: 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.
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 ]]
„In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.“
— Erwin Rommel
Infanterie greift an (1937), Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
p. 62.
„It is during the pursuit, when the beaten enemy is still dispirited and disorganised, that most prisoners are made and most booty captured.“
— Erwin Rommel
Context: 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.
Ch. V : Graziani's Defeat - Cause and Effect, p. 96.
„Better too much spade work than too little! This work saves blood.“
— Erwin Rommel
Infanterie greift an (1937), Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
p. 28.
„The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning, before the enemy has time to react, deep into his rear.“
— Erwin Rommel
Strategies he promoted which have been called Blitzkrieg (Lightning War), as quoted in Europe Since 1914 (1966) by Gordon Alexander Craig
