Mitcham, Samuel W.

Rommel's lieutenants : the men who served the Desert Fox, France, 1940 / Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007. - xiv, 202 p., [21] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-191) and indexes.

The sources of Rommel's officers -- Karl Rothenburg: hero of two wars -- Rudolf Sieckenius: the scapegoat -- Karl August Hanke: Nazi politician .. 53 -- Joachim von Metzsch: the supply officer -- Dr. Wilhelm Baumeister: the medical officer -- Hans von Luck: the charming aristocrat -- Joachim Ziegler: the SS general -- Gottfried Froelich: the Saxon gunner -- Georg von Bismarck: the Prussian junker -- Friedrich Fuerst: the second in command -- Friedrich-Carl von Steinkeller: the motorcycle commander -- Hans Joachim von Kronhelm: the heavy artillery commander -- Eduard Crasemann: the war criminal -- Frido von Senger und Etterlin: the snobbish aristocratic -- Otto Heidkaemper: the chief of staff -- Johann Mickl: the Austrian mountaineer.

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World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
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