Эрвин Роммель цитаты

«Infanterie greift an» (1937)

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Цитаты об Эрвине Роммеле

Вариант: Смертельная опасность является эффективным противоядием от навязчивых идей.

Стивен Прессфилд в книге «Убийство Роммеля» ( Killing Rommel, 2009 ), стр. 7.
Self-restraint, even chivalry… distinguished the combatants on both sides throughout the North Africa campaign… The leading exemplar of this code was Rommel himself. When orders from Hitler mandated the execution of captured British commandos, Rommel tossed the document into the trash. He insisted that Allied prisoners receive the same rations and medical care as he himself was given. He even wrote a book about the conflict called Krieg ohne Hass (War Without Hate). Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine.
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Источник: http://www.scribd.com/doc/81352783/Killing-Rommel-Steven-Press-Field Killing Rommel

Сэр Б. Г. Лиддел Гарт, «Бумаги Роммеля», стр. 347.
Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Теодор Вернер, книга «Тропа лисы» ( The Trail of the Fox, 1977 ), стр. 15.
Anybody who came under the spell of his personality turned into a real soldier. However tough the strain he seemed inexhaustible. He seemed to know just what the enemy were like and how they would probably react. His plans were often startling, instinctive, spontaneous and not infrequently obscure.
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Я ответил: «Нам бы не помешало немного таких лезвий, господин Рейхсмаршал».
Сэр Б. Г. Лиддел Гарт, «Бумаги Роммеля», стр. 295.
When I said that British fighter-bombers had shot up my tanks with 4O-mm. shells, the Reichsmarschall, who felt himself touched by this, said: «That s completely impossible. The Americans only know how to make razor blades.» I replied: «We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarschall.»

Ответ на вопрос южноафриканского офицера о том, в одной ли казарме он будет размещён с подчинёнными.

Альберт Кессельринг в письме к Леону Голденсону (4 февраля 1946 года).
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Цитаты об Эрвине Роммеле

Британский генерал Клод Окинлек, в директиве к его офицерам под названием «Роммель, лис пустыни» ( Rommel, The Desert Fox, 1951 ) под редакцией Десмонда Янга, стр. 7.
There exists a real danger that our friend Rommel is becoming a kind of magical or bogey-man to our troops, who are talking far too much about him.
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Стивен Прессфилд
Rommel had gained the world’s respect for his military genius. He was a legend. (…) Rommel was reminiscent of the more romantic, chivalrous days of old — and was a genuinely humane military officer. Rommel was Germany’s best General. You have to remember all of Europe was in Nazi hands at the time. The Americans hadn't entered the war yet. Russia was being attacked by 166 Nazi divisions. Things were grim. And Rommel, the greatest desert fighting general of all time, and his Africa Korps, were kicking the British's butt, pushing them back to Cairo. It became a case where the war might have been lost right there.
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Источник: http://knol.google.com/k/steve-kayser/steve-kayser-leaders-with-character/2s8qeugbu9nag/5# «Лидеры с характером, рыцарством и смелостью — в прошлом?»

Йозеф Дитрих, в письме к Леону Голденсону (28 февраля 1946)
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Биться до последнего патрона, до последнего человека. Казнить и пытать пленников. Он проигнорировал эти приказы.
Стивен Прессфилд
He was ordered several times by Hitler to «Stand and Die». To fight to the last bullet, the last man. To execute and torture prisoners. He defied those orders.
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Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Источник: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.

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
Disputed
Источник: Rommel: In His Own Words

Вариант: Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
Источник: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XI : The Initiative Passes, p. 244.

Источник: Attacks

Ch XVI : The Great Retreat, p. 347.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

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.

Источник: The Rommel Papers (1953), 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.]]
Контексте: 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.

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 ]]
Контексте: 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.

Источник: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. XXIII : The Sky Has Grown Dark, p. 523.

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Источник: The Rommel Papers (1953), Ch. V : Graziani's Defeat - Cause and Effect, p. 96.
Контексте: 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.

As quoted in Dirty Little Secrets : Military Information You're Not Supposed To Know (1990) by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi, p. 50

Strategies he promoted which have been called Blitzkrieg (Lightning War), as quoted in Europe Since 1914 (1966) by Gordon Alexander Craig

Ch XVIII : Back to Tunisia, p. 393.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

Ch XV : Alamein in Retrospect, p. 327.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

Ch XIII : Now or Never - Alam Halfa, p. 285.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

Lieber zuviel als zu wenig Spatengebrauch! Diese Arbeit spart Blut.
Источник: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 28.

Said to captured British officers during the Siege of Tobruk, as quoted in The Guinness History of the British Army (1993) by John Pimlott, p. 138

On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
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On the plaque dedicated to the Bersaglieri http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TargaRommel.jpg that fought at Mersa Matruh and Alamein.