Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, a personal letter to Major General Meise dated August 28, 1944 After his injury Rommel writes from the bedside to the Commander of his Pioneers and most important man for defensive tactics, regretting not to be in the front line (transl. "I may be able to get up ...but reading with only one eye and walking are still very stressful for me."), making dark comparisons with past events (transl.) "because I have already experienced such a situation at Alamein in 1942, when the same enemy destroyed the German Tank Army Africa by the same m,

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