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Erwin Rommel has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
• To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for…
• The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps…
• The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all the latest tactical experience and developments, and must…
• In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
• Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
• The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can…
• The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.
• One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
• No plan survives contact with the enemy
• Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.
• When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

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