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From left to right:
Colonel Siegfried Westphal, General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Colonel Fritz Bayerlein, and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
This must have been taken during the Second Battle of El Alamein between October-November 1942, as Rommel did not meet von Thoma beforehand.
Von Thoma deserted to the British lines late into the battle, just as Rommel was debating whether to retreat or stand fast.
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Finally, finally, a sequel to this fanfic over here. By the request of @historyloverbelle, I came about and finished the alternative HAPPY ending. YAY. Took me so long.
BUT, I made a point to write AS MUCH SMUT AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE, so of course it is not going to be posted on Tumblr directly.
Please, enter if only you are 18+ → click.
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Rommel's field inspection／a sketch.
Yep, this is my avatar.
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21 April. yet another anniversary of the death date of these two.... friends? one year apart... I think it is very unfortunate that I can't find any photos of them together, particularly during their schooldays...
byebye think I'm gonna go cry again today :)
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OP has a previous post here which is equally awesome!
I came across this website named Engines of the Wehrmacht when I researched my post on Fedi's diary entry. I can see the webmaster likes Rommel a lot :) Check it out as well if you like to research all sorts of machines.
Panzerkampfwagen PzIV
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14-9-1939 Fedor von Bock's Diary
Previous diary entries → 01 ／ 02 ／ 03
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Fedor von Bock keeps advancing towards Warsaw; he was met with stubborn resistance from the Poles, some quarters had been difficult to deal with. Fedi, being a very hands-on commander, drives between the headquarters of the I Army Corps and the 3rd Army to see to various details personally. He comments on how unbearably hard the terrain is, even goes so far as to say "the history of war will not forget it".
In the meantime, Guderian has been doing pretty well. Fedi notes down the towns he took.
It may not be an exaggeration, because he says it's "16 hours on hair-raising roads". He was constantly trapped in lonely forests or really random places. Oh come on!
It is true that roads and transportation are so important in warfare. Von Bock would be incredibly foolhardy if he drives alone from shithole to shithole (I thinks at least his adjutant would accompany him). After all, when the Roman empire decided to conquer southern Italy, the first thing they did is to build the now renowned Appian Way-- a perfectly straight road and an engineering miracle.
Fedi's car is most likely Mercedes-Benz G4, whereas in the desert, Rommel drives a humbler Horch 901.
It is also very funny that, when the car breaks down, Rommel would jump down and push the vehicle himself, but von Bock would have other people haul him out of his predicament.
OMG, Fedi is giving me some mean girl vibe...
#wwii germany#3rd reich#fedor von bock#erwin rommel#heer#the war diary#Generalfeldmarschall#Fedi my mean girl#wehrmachtblr#wehrmacht
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This Paulus-- is actually an earlier version titled "Lost Victory". This title implies that the standing figure is von Manstein. It was only later that I decided to go for the Sir John Everett Millais "Ophelia" composition for him.
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Thanks OP for the info compilation, here are some young Rommel pictures I've got here :D
Erwin Rommel during WW1
These are some facts and curiosities about Erwin Rommel during WW1:
When the First World War broke out, Rommel was employed on the Western Front in the offensive led by the German army against the joint French and British armies.
Rommel earned his first decoration on 24 September 1914, when he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class following an individual attack on five French soldiers in a forest near Varennes.
He was awarded the highest German military honour, the Order Pour le Mérite, which he received for the leadership skills demonstrated, with the rank of lieutenant, on the Italian front especially during the Battle of Caporetto in autumn 1917.
He was promoted to the rank of captain in January 1918.
For a time, Rommel served in the same infantry regiment as Friedrich Paulus, who, like Rommel, rose to the rank of Field Marshal during World War II.
He was wounded three times during the war
Sources:
Wikipedia: Erwin Rommel
Military Wiki: Erwin Rommel
I DON'T SUPPORT NAZISM,FASCISM OR ZIONISM IN ANY WAY, THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL POST
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Fedor von Bock's War Diary, a commentary
I have been reading von Bock’s war diary, and have noticed some interesting trends. I tend to agree with the Amazon top reviewer M. G Watson’s opinion, that it is written in excruciating details and professional jargon, and it may pose some problems for casual readers.
To a lay person, von Bock’s diary is heavily bogged down by factual statements and descriptions of the frontline situation, and its lack of sensibility means that the entries do not take the viewers deeper into analyzing a bigger picture nor do they show the colors of the writer’s mind and intentions- yet paradoxically, it is precisely what Bock’s mind is like- soldierly and loyal, to a point that he lacks common sense in basic human relations.
You’d get a sense that, yes, clearly this beauty is a bit off-kilter; no wonder according to E.A. Hart's "Hitler’s Generals", he was a social outcast among the officers, his harsh professional skills have no use in a normal civil society, and in turn, anything or anybody not wearing an uniform does not exist to him. You couldn't get more "autistic" than that.
The diary is clearly self-conscious that there may be readers, and oh boy, does von Bock like to complain to his readers that the OKH commanders are idiots! But not to a point that it attempts to manipulate the readers’ perceptions in order to virtue signal or to back stab, like certain historical memoirs do.
What I do not agree with Watson entirely, is whether or not his respect for Hitler was genuine, as Bock needed to maintain a positive relationship with the Fuhrer to get what he wanted, or else Halder would limit his actions left right and center, which exasperates von Bock.
It is said that Bock was initially heavily implicated in the 720 plot, only to be spared because one of his former staff commented that “Bock has been very respectful of the Fuhrer”—the thing is, that officer cited this according to his older memories, not knowing that in his retirement, Bock demonstrated how hateful he was of Hitler’s guts (source needed).
Personal comments and private sentiments are so lacking in this diary that I believe Bock was secretly socially awkward-- yet he was not afraid to make other generals awkward with him. He only regarded other generals as parts of his professional military machinery. However, he didn’t seem to hold any grudges-- I mean, the Kluge-Guderian kind of negativity, hating other generals and trying on colleagues' career destruction all the damn time.
Basically, people agreeing with Bock = a happy Bock; people not agreeing with Bock = a angry-crying emoji Bock. He also uses simplistic language like “beautiful lads”, “the soldier beamed at me", “the division is good but tired” that gives off impressions of him speaking whatever is on his mind. He keeps his diary content strictly professional, so when emotions do break out, these are oh so simple, pure and raw. Bock uses exclamation marks too excessively, a sign that he doesn’t know how to employ elaborate words to communicate how he feels.
When he laughs, he laughs; he laughs at the paranoid patients' wild antics; when he's upset, he's upset, saying "Schlieffen turns in his grave!" because "I am not allowed freedom further eastward!" It pains me to see he say things like "The misery those fleeing the war is terrible", "frightful misery of the refugees, but what can I do?" The helplessness in Bock's voice is so astounding when his personal interests, his character and the war context are taken into consideration.
It is so beautiful when a butcher knife weeps tears of blood.
If the emotion runs even deeper, he becomes quieter and more reserved. The readers have no chance seeing his softer spots. Who could blame this hardened soul for never writing anything about his stepson, whom he dressed up in little sailor outfit and took to see a military parade, so full of hope that the boy could be like him, or his grief when his family died?
11-9, 1939, Fedor von Bock very briefly and vaguely ordered von Kuchler to convene a court martial. Through the editor's archival supplement, we see that the SS artillery members killed lots of Polish Jews, and Fedi was NOT pleased. This informs me that when Fedi lingers on the "positive notes" about Hitler, it was probably artificial. Either massive Jewish civilian death really shook him, or he deliberately hid this court martial incident from his readers-- of whom there were certainly Nazi personnel.
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Should I preserve art from deactivated accounts?
This morning, I saw I lost one follower. My reaction wasn't "OK this acc unfollowed me, that's ok", but "Oh no, this acc is probably deactivated!" I later came across some reblogged post that confirmed my hunch.
To me, that is terrible; it either mean the person is not in a good head space, or Tumblr is knocking reichblr people off again. This motivates me to make this backup blog.
But is it disrespectful if I also backup reblogged artworks from a deactivated acc? I know a few people here who have past blogs deactivated against their will, so it is safe to assume that these artists wanted their works preserved? I really don't know, so I'd like to make this poll.
When I'm at it, here's our blonde beast.
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Fedor von Bock greeting an officer.
Fedi is all kinds of cute.
I was using this photo as a sketch practice but I ended up colorizing it in full.
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I just wanted to re-invent the work from this post somewhat.
Yea nice :D
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I'm just a hopeless von Bock simp.
help.
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