“The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.”

Blake Clark (1891 to 1944)

Erwin Rommel, in full Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, byname the Desert Fox, German der Wüstenfuchs, was a German Field Marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with his spectacular victories as commander of the Afrika Korps in World War II.