The funeral of Erwin Rommel

[Princess Turandot]

1. "Lu, in 10 minutes I will be dead"...

In the dramatization of Herman Wouk's two part masterwork on the lead-up to WW2 and the war itself, The Winds of War & War and Remembrance, Rommel returns to his house after speaking with the men who came to arrest him, and says that to his wife Lucia.

His teenage son Manfred was also at home. The family lived their lives out without any apparent retribution, which was likely one of the reasons he opted for suicide. The son later became the mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996.

If you've never read these books, I highly recommend them. Wouk tells the story by weaving the lives of several fictional individuals, with those of real people and the events of the day, from the Anschluss to Hiroshima. Combined, the books are more than 2,000 pages long.

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