Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a boy born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany on November 15th, 1891. Not much is known about his early childhood; all that is really known is that he was the third of five children. He told his sister when he was young of how he wished to be an engineer and a mechanic, but once he turned eighteen, after being pressured by his father, he joined the 124th Württemberg Infantry Regiment. In 1910, he began studying at the Officer’s school in Brandenburg, he graduated a mere year later. In 1914, World War One had begun. Rommel was assigned to the Western front, where he fought in both France and Italy, and towards the end of the war in Romania. After ‘The War To End All Wars’, he was promoted to captain. In between the two World Wars, Rommel was not documented and we are uncertain of what happened during those years. But during The Polish invasion by Nazi Germany, he was named commander of the 7th Panzer division, in 1941, he was sent to Africa due to Italian losses in the African front. This is where he gained the Nickname of “Desert Fox”. After the battle of Gazala, he was promoted to Field Marshal by Hitler himself. Though he is thought of  as a Nazi, he wrote over several letters of his Political Apathy and refused to let anyone label him as a Nazi. After the battle of El Alamein in 1942, he was pulled out of Africa and stationed in France to fortify and prepare for the imminent Cross-channel invasion into France. Erwin Rommel in his time in France met with conspirators who wished to take Hitler out of power, though the other conspirators wished to assassinate Hitler, Rommel merely wished to get him out of power. Before the plan was carried out, Rommel was hit by a car and put in a hospital where he suffered a coma. During his time in the hospital, the conspirators carried out their plan, and failed. When Rommel awoke, he was given a letter from Hitler himself. He was given two choices, run and become a traitor to Germany, or take the Cyanide pill within the letter and be buried with full military honors. He chose the latter, and took his life on October 14th, 1944. He was buried in Herrlingen Cemetery, Germany, where you can go and still see his grave today.