Erwin Rommel : The Greatest Leader

In World War 1, Hitler volunteered for service in the Bavarian army, where he proved to be a dedicated courageous solider. After Germany’s defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, where, in 1919 he joined the Nazi party. In 1921 he was elected party chairman with dictatorial powers. He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics and by January 1933 he was appointed chancellor.

Ernst Rohm a professional soldier and once a close friend of Adolf Hitler was a major threat against Hitler’s power and reign. Rohm was a natural rebel who had strong revolutionary

Erwin Rommel was born into a family that had no established military tradition joined the German military in 1910. He would enter as an officer cadet and his first assignment was to the 124th Wurttemberg Infantry Regiment. World War I broke out and Erwin Rommel would find himself serving in France, Romania, and Italy. He gained notability with his senior officers during the Battle of Caporetto for his innovative tactics used during the battle. Erwin Rommel quickly established himself as a competent leader as a lieutenant and frontline infantry officer. Unlike his fellow officers, he declined advancement to the general staff, which was common practice to remain with his men on the front line. This dedication to leading on the frontline would result in Erwin Rommel being wounded two separate times during combat.

It has been said by many scholars that the true victor of the First World War was disease and illness. Statistics show that over one third of military related deaths were caused by a disease/illness of some sort. To put that in more of a numerical visual, there were about ten million casualties in the span of World War I, this is excluding civilians, only military personnel. Of that ten million, about two million deaths were caused by disease/illness (Nadège Mougel, 2009). This number could me more, but about six million soldiers were reported as missing, or presumed dead.

(Otto) Adolf Eichmann was Lieutenant Colonel in the Nazi Secret Services (SS), and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was in charge of relocating the jews into ghettos and extermination camps. When the Nazis began to invade the Soviet Union, Eichmann became responsible for Jewish deportation to extermination camps, where they were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary, and transports had stopped, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed.

Rommel was in charge of the Axis Powers military. Dwight D. Eisenhower had to make the call whether to hold off on D-Day for a while or do on June 6, 1944 because there were terrible storms. He didn 't like it, but it had to be June 6th. This was also Rommel 's wife 's birthday, and since there were storms he felt safe.  Besides he wanted to spend time with his family on his day off.

Josef Dietrich’s leadership of the Sixth Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge revealed the characteristics of an unreliable General.

prestigious honor. Soon Rommel and Hitler became close friends. Hitler consulted with Rommel on where he would like to go from there. Rommel told him he would like to lead an armored division.

When I discuss World War II, invariably my discussion always includes a discourse of two generals, who in my opinion were two of the greatest generals of that war: Erwin Rommel and George S. Patton. Both men were icons for their countries during this greatest of all wars, and they were so similar and different in many ways of their personal and public lives. Patton and Rommel both came from an extensive military training. Rommel joined the local Infantry Regiment as an officer cadet in 1910 and was sent to the Officer Cadet School soon after.

In case you are wondering what this might be about well this long essay your about to read is about Adolf Hitler. Have you ever wondered about how hitler’s leadership affected a lot of people in the past in a good way or how significant hitler’s leadership was? Hitler did many great things and out of those successes really good things happened. Hitler’s leadership was significant. Throughout this piece your going to be reading about hitler’s promises he kept to germany, how he benefited the germans, the outcomes of his successes, and how he became leader of the nazi party and chancellor of germany.

When WWI broke out, Adolf Hitler, Then in his mid 20's, hoped to join the army to fight. Being rejected for the Austrian Army Hitler was delighted because he wanted to be a German. He wrote to the King of a large State in Southern Germany and later was assigned to the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment which was composed of student volunteers. Hitler was wounded several times throughout the war and at the end of the was his rank was Lance Corporal.

General Douglas MacArthur is the prime example of what a lot of Americans strived to be. He was a respected war hero, a “brilliant” leader and iron fisted rebel against the big government. MacArthur knew that after the end of World War II and his placement in Japan he controlled a lot of political and man power. This began to fester when he pushed the invasion of Yalu. He continually denied orders after being warned by President Truman that his power did not extend to invading North Korea and that any subsequent invasion could cause direct retaliation from the USSR and China. MacArthur was sure that the Chinese would remain on the side of the U.S. He made a fatal mistake during an announcement about the cureent timeline of the now invaded Korea. The war “would be terminated

Carl Von Clausewitz is one of the most well known, as well as important, war theorists in our history. Although he has been dead for almost two decades, he still plays a major role in shaping military thinkers around the world. The reason his theory is somehow still relevant is because of its flexibility. He did not prepare for nuclear warfare or cyber warfare, but you can apply his theory to the 21st century. Clausewitz believed in two levels of war and that war was continuous. Clausewitz believed that when one goes to war, they should have an achievable political objective; "war is the continuation of politics by other means” (Clausewitz, 1832).

Blitzkrieg in a literal sense means “lightning war” meaning that they would use speed and confusion to upset the enemy forces. Rommel is credited as being the one who perfected the art of war known as Blitzkrieg and for good reasons. It’s believed that Rommel and Guderian were told under the command of Hitler to disobey their superiors and to push the front, leaving their flanking forces behind them to create confusion and surprise for the enemy. Rommel used this method of

He also was known to not be a part of the Nazi party. Rommel was also different from the Nazi generals by disobeying from orders many times even when they were directly from Hitler himself. According to http://www.history.com “Despite his reverence for Hitler, Rommel disobeyed for fear his force would be completely annihilated” this shows that Rommel would disobey Hitler for the better of his troops instead of letting them die because Hitler wanted to make a point. Also, when Hitler ordered Rommel to exterminate people that Hitler deemed inferior he did not attack or capture them. Rommel stood out from his fellow generals in the way he would treat his prisoners when he captured them. Citing www.historylearningsite.co.uk “ Rommel required that the