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Rommel was loyal, why wasn't he trusted by Adolf later? The possibility of the Atlantic Line

author:Victory of Buwu

We still don't know why Field Marshal Rommel of World War II lost Adolf's trust. Only to know that Rommel, who returned from North Africa, was placed on the Western Front with Guderian to defend the Atlantic Defense Line for the Germans. Perhaps Rommel was a man of great personality who always did not listen to commands, or Rommel's defeat at the Battle of El Alamein? In any case, Rommel's loyalty to Germany could not be doubted.

Rommel was loyal, why wasn't he trusted by Adolf later? The possibility of the Atlantic Line

Even on the indifferent Atlantic Line, Rommel struggled with the Germans. The originally sparse Atlantic Defense Line also grew rapidly under Rommel's management, but by this time the German army was already facing an embattled situation, and millions of Allied troops were preparing to find loopholes in the Atlantic Defense Line and open a second battlefield.

Rommel understood that such a defensive line alone could not resist the Allies, and that a strong mobile force must be deployed on the defensive line to counter the Allied landings at any time. Rommel did conceive of it that way, but when he reported his proposal to Adolf, it was rejected by Adolf. Rommel's idea of deploying armored forces near the coast was shattered, and the Germans deployed their armored units on the deep french defensive line.

Rommel was loyal, why wasn't he trusted by Adolf later? The possibility of the Atlantic Line

Perhaps it was from this time that Rommel already knew the outcome of the war. As the only Allied field marshal to have taught the Anglo-American forces, Rommel was well aware of the Allied air superiority. This kind of dimensionality reduction strike is a natural enemy of ground armored forces. At the time of the Normandy landings, the German air superiority had been lost, and it can be said that as long as the Allied landings were successful and provided bombing coordinates for the air forces, the German panzer corps was a group of ants that could be destroyed at any time.

Rommel was loyal, why wasn't he trusted by Adolf later? The possibility of the Atlantic Line

In the face of bombing that could change the terrain, ground forces simply could not play any role. In fact, Rommel's front-line defense method can maximize the use of the air defense advantages on the Atlantic defense line, and can also provide rapid support along the beachhead road, which can be said to be a way to better exert the combat effectiveness of the German army. But history did not have ifs, and Rommel could not change the fate of Germany's defeat. What do you think?

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