Known as the "Desert Fox", Rommel was a famous German general during World War II and a close confidant of Hitler. He made great achievements in the fascist war of aggression and was a well-known legend in Germany.
Known for his boldness and scheming, he often spearheaded the charge on the front lines of the battlefield, and he was better at attacking the east and the west, always giving the enemy a fatal blow through clever deception and disguise.
This recognized warrior of both the enemy and us, the hero of the German masses, ended up in a very tragic end: because of his political differences with Hitler and his involvement in the conspiracy to kill Hitler, he was forced by Hitler to commit suicide by poisoning himself in October 1994. ???
Rommel and Hitler
This famous battlefield general, who became popular before his death and was lucky after his death, was forced to commit suicide because of his suspected assassination of Hitler, but became a unique hero in the hearts of the German people. After the end of the war, Rommel, who was originally a Nazi villain, rose to fame and became a legendary general in the "anti-Hitler" camp.
Since Rommel's death, both Eastern and Western military historians have been keen to study the legendary figure, especially after Rommel's death, and what happened to his family has worried readers who do not know the truth. Rommel had a son and a daughter, so what about the two children after he committed suicide???
Rommel family portrait
Rommel's son, Manfred Rommel, was born in 1928, the son of Rommel and his wife Maureen. In 1942, due to the tight war in the nazi east of Germany, which caused a large number of soldier casualties, in order to make up for the lack of Nazi military strength in Germany, Hitler began to mobilize underage boys to join the German army and contribute to the war.
Manfred, who was only 14 years old at the time, also became a member of the Nazi Anti-Aircraft Gunners Regiment at Hitler's call, and this young teenager even tried to join Hitler's Waffen SS. However, at that time, Rommel had already moved to murder Hitler, so he prevented his son from joining Hitler's camp.
Manfred elderly photo
On October 14, 1944, Rommel was forced by Hitler to commit suicide by poisoning in order to save his family. Moreover, in order not to shake the German Nazi will to war, everyone was silent about the real cause of Rommel's death. Manfred was 16 years old at the time, and he knew that he would not be implicated if he did not tell the true cause of his father's death.
It was not until April 1945, when Manfred became a prisoner of the French army, that the real cause of his father's death was revealed. After that, what awaited the teenager was a difficult post-war life, but the good reputation left by his father's death helped him and his mother survive the famine.
Daughter Gertrude
Manfred, who was back on track, entered the government in 1953, and in 1974 he successfully became mayor of Stuttgart, where he was in power for 23 years, which made him a pivotal figure in German politics, ending his tortuous and glorious life when Manfred died of illness in 2013.
As for the so-called daughter of Rommel, Gertrude, in fact, her identity is controversial, and it is said that this child was the illegitimate daughter of a lowly woman born to Rommel before marrying his wife.
Although Rommel did not officially recognize the identity of this daughter, he had provided her daughter with uninterrupted living expenses, and the father and daughter relied on letters to maintain their feelings. Since the outside world does not pay much attention to Gertrude, her whereabouts are confused.