ROMMEL'S DEATH
REPORT OF SUICIDE LONDON, August 4. Rommel's son, in a sworn statement, declared that his father committed suicide as an alternative to being sentenced to death by a Nazi court for alleged complicity in the bomb plot against Hitler in 1944, says a correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain in Germany. Rommel was recovering from a wound received in France'in an American air raid when he received a call from two German generals on October 17, 1944. Shortly afterwards he said good-bye to his wife and told his son that Hitler had given him the choice of taking poison or facing condemnation by the People's Court. Armed men surrounded the house. Rommel went off with the two generals, who gave the Hitler salute. Fifteen minutes later there was a telephone call to the family stating that Rommel had died of a stroke. _^
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 31, 6 August 1945, Page 5
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146ROMMEL'S DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 31, 6 August 1945, Page 5
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