{410}{465}[Man Narrating]|The time is 1941... {467}{530}a month before Pearl Harbor. {532}{595}At 11:00 on a November night... {597}{659}a British submarine surfaced|in the Mediterranean... {661}{725}off the coast of Libya in North Africa... {727}{777}behind the German lines. {890}{945}Are you sure the light carries that far? {946}{993}It should. {1044}{1098}There they are. {1181}{1261}- What's he saying?|- He says they're all set, sir. {1263}{1322}Tell him we're coming in. {2192}{2253}[Narrator]|These were British commandos... {2254}{2324}and the purpose of this|carefully plotted raid... {2326}{2385}was the death of one man. {5832}{5887}Aaaah! {6196}{6258}[Gunfire Continues] {7060}{7118}[Gunfire Continues] {7723}{7770}Cover me. {8694}{8752}It's no use.|Go on without me. {8754}{8823}- Get hold of my arm!|- It's no use, I tell you.|Get out of here! {8825}{8871}[Gunfire] {9027}{9074}[Gunfire] {9280}{9343}Did we... Did we get him? {9393}{9444}Are you serious, Englishman? {11273}{11341}Gentlemen, the following order|from General Auchinleck... {11343}{11433}is to all commanders and chiefs of staff|of the Middle East forces. {11434}{11506}"There exists a real danger|that our friend Rommel... {11508}{11601}"is becoming a kind of magician|or bogeyman to our troops... {11602}{11664}"who are talking far too much about him. {11666}{11719}"He is by no means a superman... {11721}{11798}"although he is undoubtedly|very energetic and able. {11800}{11897}"Even if he were a superman,|it would still be highly undesirable... {11899}{11987}"that our men should credit him|with supernatural powers. {11989}{12069}"I wish you to dispel|by all possible means... {12070}{12139}"the idea that Rommel|represents something more... {12141}{12203}"than an ordinary German general. {12205}{12273}"Please ensure that this order|is put into immediate effect... {12274}{12333}"and impress upon all commanders... {12334}{12395}"that from a psychological|point of view... {12397}{12446}it is a matter|of the highest importance." {12448}{12512}Signed C.J. Auchinleck, General... {12514}{12590}Commander-in-Chief, M.E.F. {12592}{12697}[Narrator]|This is the North African|desert in. June of 1942... {12698}{12787}and these are British soldiers|taken prisoner the night before... {12789}{12854}by units of the German Afrika Korps. {13239}{13285}Run, you fool, run! {13847}{13912}You! Come on, get out of there! {13975}{14035}Get over with the other prisoners! {14329}{14390}Who is the senior officer here? {14449}{14506}- I am, I suppose.|- Come with me. {14722}{14772}- What's your rank?|- Lieutenant colonel. {14774}{14847}Colonel, I want you to go along with|these two officers on a flag of truce. {14849}{14900}And tell that battery to stop firing. {14902}{14969}- Tell them they're...|killing their own men.|- I can't do that. {14970}{15040}Don't tell me what you can or can't do.|I'm giving you an order. {15041}{15088}Here, tie this on that rifle. {15089}{15136}Listen, Major, I'm a prisoner of war. {15137}{15184}You can't give me any such order. {15185}{15232}You know that as well as I do. {15233}{15292}I'm not going to argue|the point with you. {15293}{15376}Either you do as I tell you,|or we'll soon find a way to make you. {15378}{15427}Are you going or not? {15429}{15511}Major! Major! {15513}{15559}What's the row? {15601}{15672}[Bombing Continues In Distance] {16201}{16255}The field marshal said you're right. {16257}{16303}Field marshal? {16388}{16446}[Narrator]|So this, then, was Rommel... {16448}{16524}Erwin. Johannes Eugen Rommel... {16525}{16589}commander-in-chief of the enemy army... {16591}{16683}and the most celebrated|German soldier since World War I. {16748}{16830}Already a legend in the desert,|he was a fox... {16832}{16916}who had chased his hunters back|and forth across North Africa... {16918}{16985}about as often as they had chased him... {16987}{17072}and his tricks and turns|had made even the Tommies chuckle... {17073}{17190}which is scarcely the proper|reflex to the enemy in time of war. {17192}{17281}In spite of which he was still,|of course, my enemy... {17282}{17377}the enemy not only of my country|and the army in which I served... {17379}{17437}but of all life as I knew it... {17439}{17526}not only of democracy|as free men had fashioned it... {17528}{17596}but of civilization itself. {17597}{17670}My name is Desmond Young. {17672}{17766}At the time of my capture, I was|a lieutenant colonel in the Indian army. {17768}{17825}This was my first and only sight... {17826}{17900}of the cool, hard,|professional soldier... {17901}{17990}whose scrupulous regard for the rules|of warfare had been exercised... {17992}{18069}in this instance,|so fortunately for myself. {18121}{18179}Two years and four months later... {18181}{18275}while the British and Americans|were fighting their way across Europe... {18277}{18333}Erwin Rommel was dead. {18334}{18404}He was dead, the Nazis reported... {18405}{18486}of wounds gallantly received|on the field ofhonor. {18488}{18560}But the Nazis were great liars,|of course. {18562}{18616}Many people wondered. {18617}{18718}For already there were mysterious|rumors floating across the battle lines. {18773}{18872}So, when the war was over|and my military life behind me... {18873}{18929}I gave myself a mission. {18930}{19019}I set out to discover|what actually had happened to him. {19021}{19074}What was the truth about his death... {19076}{19153}and on what field ofhonor had he died? {19155}{19273}In a modest home in the tiny|village of Herrlingen by Ulm|in Wurttemberg, Germany... {19275}{19374}I talked long and often|with Rommel's son and widow... {19376}{19469}and examined his letters,|reports and other papers. {19470}{19537}In Germany,|I talked to soldiers... {19538}{19621}who had served with him,|over him and under him, : {19622}{19705}In England,|with men who had fought against him... {19707}{19768}from field marshals to desert rats. {19770}{19823}And in both countries, of course... {19825}{19884}I went to the official records. {19886}{19940}Based on these facts... {19941}{20058}what now follows|is the true story of Erwin Rommel. {20110}{20188}The beginning of the end|for this single-minded soldier... {20190}{20315}came at 9:30 on the evening|of October 23, 1942... {20316}{20377}when at El Alamein|six miles of British guns... {20379}{20425}Fire! {21342}{21405}I discovered that actually|Rommel was not in Africa... {21407}{21463}when the storm ofbattle broke. {21464}{21531}Suffering from|a chronic diphtheria of the nose... {21532}{21601}he had been relieved ofhis command|a month before... {21603}{21662}and flown back to a hospital in Germany. {21664}{21747}But when the telephone rang|at his bedside... {21749}{21835}and a familiar voice from Berlin|called on him once more... {21837}{21934}he rose and was in a plane|on the way back to the desert|within hours. {22105}{22152}[Coughing] {22561}{22641}- Thank you, Bayerlein.|Still a dandy, I see.|- Just luck, sir. {22643}{22694}- Welcome back.|- Good to see you, sir. {22696}{22764}- Shall we take a look at those maps?|- Over here. {22765}{22848}- How've you been, Bayerlein?|- Oh, very well, I suppose. {22850}{22911}- Did you see Frau Rommel?|- Yes, she came to stay a week,|she and Manfred. {22913}{22966}- Well, I hope...|- How does it look today? {22968}{23034}Oh, looks like|they've got too much for us. {23036}{23104}If they keep this up, I've no idea|how we're going to get out of it. {23106}{23164}- Not with the amount|of petrol we've got.|- But we've got petrol? {23166}{23224}- Some, but not enough.|- You mean it's still on the way. {23226}{23296}- Neither on the way|nor any prospect of it.|- Who told you that? {23298}{23406}I've talked to Rome three times.|There's no petrol on the way|nor any committed to us. {23408}{23476}Schultz. Aldinger. {23623}{23690}- What about the tanks? Did they come?|- None. {23692}{23749}- None since I left?|- No. None since August. {23751}{23804}- What about the guns?|- Nothing, I tell you. {23806}{23855}- And no petrol at all?|- Not a pint. {23906}{23964}[Sighs] {24192}{24245}This is correct from the hour. {24247}{24307}Get me a stool, will you? {24418}{24496}Here's where it's worst.|15th's in a bad way,|barely hanging together. {24498}{24568}- What's this?|- A trailer division. They came in here. {24570}{24643}- Yes, I see. How far's this armor?|- No further. {24644}{24715}- They're doing pretty well there.|- Where are my maps? {24826}{24896}Bring the 21 st north through here. {24898}{24974}- Move the 90th forward here.|- They'll hook up. {24976}{25022}That's right.|Now tell me this. {25024}{25082}- Is Montgomery sending|his infantry in first?|- Naturally. {25084}{25178}Then let's give him a surprise.|Let's send our tanks and blow|a hole through that infantry. {25180}{25275}If it works,|we'll be on top of his tanks|before he knows what hit him. {25276}{25372}- Very good, sir.|- If it doesn't work, we'll know|better than to try it next time. {25374}{25460}- Come on, Aldinger.|- You're not going up now, are you? {25496}{25559}Don't you think you oughta|turn in for an hour or so? {25560}{25627}- After three weeks of being turned in?|- We're away, sir? {25628}{25699}Let's head north|and go in with the 21 st. {25852}{25917}[Young Narrating]|But there was now another fox|in the desert... {25919}{25974}an even craftier one, perhaps. {25976}{26057}And if the battle boiled into confusion|during the next few days... {26059}{26176}it was a confusion that was clearly|more and more in Montgomery's favor. {28673}{28728}Have you found the field marshal yet? {28729}{28788}No, sir.|He's out at the front again. {28865}{28920}I don't know how the men|on line feel about it... {28921}{28995}but so far as the staff|is concerned, I'd just as soon|have a commander-in-chief... {28997}{29047}with...
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