Erwin Rommel: Soldier

Erwin Rommel was German field marshal of World War II. Explore interesting quotes on soldier.

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“One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.”

Erwin Rommel

As quoted in Dirty Little Secrets : Military Information You're Not Supposed To Know (1990) by James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi, p. 50

World

“The military career of most of the people who aimed these accusations at us was notable for a consistent absence from the front, on the principle of "weit vom Schuss gibt alte Kreiger" - "far from the battle makes old soldiers."”

Erwin Rommel

Ch XV : Alamein in Retrospect, p. 327.
The Rommel Papers (1953)

People

“Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.”

Erwin Rommel

On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
Disputed

Forgetting

“The German soldier has astonished the world; the Italian Bersagliere has astonished the German soldier.”

Erwin Rommel

On the plaque dedicated to the Bersaglieri http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TargaRommel.jpg that fought at Mersa Matruh and Alamein.

World