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Erwin Rommel and the Bundeswehr, the Glossary

A significant controversy exists over the German Bundeswehrs use of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as its role model.^[1]

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Controversies in Germany
Erwin Rommel
Historiography of Nazi Germany
Role status

Adolf Heusinger

Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger (4 August 1897 – 30 November 1982) was a German military officer whose career spanned the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany and NATO.

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Alexander Neu

Alexander Neu (born 10 March 1969) is a German politician.

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Alliance 90/The Greens

Alliance 90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), often simply referred to as Greens (Grüne), is a green political party in Germany.

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Apoliticism

Apoliticism is apathy or antipathy towards all political affiliations.

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Bibliography (from and), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliography).

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Bundeswehr

The Bundeswehr (literally Federal Defence) is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Chivalry

Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220.

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Christian Hartmann

Christian Hartmann (born 15 April 1959) is a German historian.

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Cornell University Press

The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.

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Der Spiegel (website)

() is a German news website.

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Dornstadt

Dornstadt is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

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Elite

In political and sociological theory, the elite (élite, from eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group.

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Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Defence (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung), abbreviated BMVg, is a top-level federal agency, headed by the Federal Minister of Defence as a member of the Cabinet of Germany. Erwin Rommel and the Bundeswehr and federal Ministry of Defence (Germany) are Bundeswehr.

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Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf

The Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf (Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne, often abbreviated to GFM-Rommel-Kaserne) is a German Army military base located in Augustdorf in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the largest base of the German Army. Erwin Rommel and the Bundeswehr and Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf are Erwin Rommel.

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Generalfeldmarschall

Generalfeldmarschall (from Old High German marahscalc, "marshal, stable master, groom"; general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal; often abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgeneralfeldmarschall); in the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, the rank Feldmarschall was used.

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German resistance to Nazism

Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in resistance, including attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime.

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Hannes Heer

Hans Georg Heer (known as Hannes) (born 16 March 1941) is a German historian, chiefly known for the Wehrmachtsausstellung (German: "Wehrmacht Exhibition") in the 1990s.

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Hans-Peter Bartels

Hans-Peter Bartels (born 7 May 1961) is a German politician of the SPD who served as member of the Bundestag for Kiel.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Johannes Hürter

Johannes Hürter (born 17 December 1963) is a German historian.

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Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.

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Michael Wolffsohn

Michael Wolffsohn (born 17 May 1947) is a German historian.

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Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

("Central German Broadcasting"), shortened to MDR (stylized as mdr), is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

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Morale

Morale is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.

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North African campaign

The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.

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Role model

A role model is a person whose behaviour, example, or success serves as a model to be emulated by others, especially by younger people. Erwin Rommel and the Bundeswehr and role model are role status.

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Sönke Neitzel

Sönke Neitzel (born 26 June 1968) is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War.

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.

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Stackpole Books

Stackpole Books is a trade publishing company in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

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Strategic Studies Institute

The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) is the U.S. Army's institute for strategic and national security research and analysis.

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Swashbuckler

A swashbuckler is a genre of European adventure literature that focuses on a heroic protagonist stock character who is skilled in swordsmanship, acrobatics, and guile, and possesses chivalrous ideals.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Left (Germany)

The Left (Die Linke), commonly referred to as the Left Party (Die Linkspartei), is a democratic socialist political party in Germany.

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The National WWII Museum

The National WWII Museum, formerly known as The National D-Day Museum, is a military history museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street.

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Ton van Loon

Ton van Loon (born October 10, 1956, in Weert) is a commander from the Netherlands.

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Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (born 8 October 1958) is a German politician, serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019.

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Virtue

A virtue (virtus) is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual.

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War crimes of the Wehrmacht

During World War II, the German Wehrmacht (combined armed forces - ''Heer'', Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe) committed systematic war crimes, including massacres, mass rape, looting, the exploitation of forced labour, the murder of three million Soviet prisoners of war, and participated in the extermination of Jews.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel_and_the_Bundeswehr

Also known as Controversies over Erwin Rommel as Bundeswehr's role model, Controversy over Erwin Rommel as Bundeswehr's role model.

Erwin Rommel and the Bundeswehr, the Glossary

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See also

Controversies in Germany

Erwin Rommel

Historiography of Nazi Germany

Role status

References