DEATH OF ROMMEL
GERMAN GENERAL ARRESTED ACCOMPLICE IN ALLEGED MURDER Rec. 11.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 8. The police arrested near Berchtesgaden the former lieutenant-general, Ernest Maisel, as an accomplice in the alleged murder of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on Hitler’s orders. The German News Agency said the arrest occurred on September 15. According to Rommel’s widow, Maisel and General Birgdorf, Hitler’s personal adjustant, arrived at Rommel’s home near Ulm on October 14, 1944 the day Rommel died. Rommel at that time was recovering from wounds received when an American fighter shot at his car on the western front but after Maisel and Birgdorf had interviewed Rommel, Rommel told his wife that on Hitler’s orders the generals had brought poison which would take effect in three seconds, and he had only a quarter of an hour to wife added that Rommel left in a car with the generals. Later she learned that his body had been taken to Ulm Hospital, and Hitler had ordered a State funeral.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26614, 10 November 1947, Page 5
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