Infantry attack
Infantry attacks is a first time in 1937 published essay about the tactics of the infantry of Erwin Rommel .
His notes on the planned book began when he was a teacher at the infantry school in Dresden . He was transferred to Dresden in September 1929, where he worked for four years.
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In the text, Rommel describes battles in which he participated in the First World War, initially as a flag junior of the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm I." (6th Württembergisches) No. 124 and later as a company commander in the Württemberg mountain battalion. The script is divided into six chapters:
- I. War of Movement 1914 in Belgium and Northern France
- II. Fighting in the Argonne, 1915
- III. Trench warfare in the Upper Vosges 1916, war of movement in Romania 1916/1917
- IV. Fighting in the Southeast Carpathians, August 1917
- V. Assault battle near Tolmein 1917
- VI. Persecution over Tagliamento and Piave
After every major battle, Rommel wrote a report and drew maps and small pictures. More than 400,000 copies had been sold before it was banned by the Allied occupiers in 1945. Rommel was planning another paper about his combat experience as General Field Marshal during the Africa campaign under the title Panzer attacks . His suicide in 1944 prevented the completion of this work.
reception
As early as 1944, the book was published by The Infantry Journal in English in the USA. After the war it was published in different languages. Up until the very recent past, there were various requirements in Germany. The book was last published in German in 2019.
Rommel's diary-style treatise on military strategy was also the preferred reading for General of the US Army and Commander-in-Chief of Coalition Forces in the Second Gulf War, Norman Schwarzkopf .
literature
- Erwin Rommel: Infantry attack: experience and experience . Voggenreiter, Potsdam 1937, DNB 575884878 .
- Peter Blauner (Hrsg.): Rommel in der Schweiz 1938: collected documents concerning the lecture tour of Colonel Erwin Rommel in Switzerland in 1938 about his book “Infanterie Attack” . Aarberg 2010. (35 pages)
Individual evidence
- ↑ General David Fraser - Rommel - Die Biographie / Siedler Verlag 2001 - ISBN 3-57201282-1 - (p. 102).
- ↑ diki.heliohost.org ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ NZZ : General Norman Schwarzkopf - Brilliant Troop Leader died on December 29, 2012, accessed on June 27, 2013.
