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German General Erwin Rommel was defeated in northern Africa. Rommel fought valiantly, but needed sufficient troops to defeat the Allies. Hitler stupidly resisted doing this, choosing to save most of his troops for the upcoming disastrous attack on Russia. Rommel was disappointed, but continued to fight the allies with limited resources until the Americans joined the fight. Rommel's entire Afrika Corps was defeated.
Rommel was the German commander in North Africa, from about 1940 to 1942. His primary opponent in Africa was the British general Alexander Montgomery, although there were a couple of battles against the American general George Patton.
The cast of Rommel and the Plot Against Hitler - 2006 includes: Yvonne Furneaux as Lucie Rommel Paul Gustavson as General Burgdorf Stephan Jacobs as Claus von Stauffenberg Stan Zabecki as Adolf Hitler
He bassically wanted to help his Indian friends and stuff, so yeah!
By all accounts Rommel was not a dyed-in the wool Nazi, so yes he was admired by the Allies as well as his own troops.
In late 1942, Rommel's Africa Korps was advancing eatward in north Africain an effort to seize the Suez canal when his forces were defeated by General Bernard Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army. Following that battle, Rommel retreated westward, with the Allied forces in pursuit. The final major battle in north Africa occurred in March, 1943 at Medidine in Tunisia, where Montgomery's Eighth Army routed the Afrika Korps, following which General Rommel returned to Germany shortly before the Axis forces in north Africa surrendered to the Allies. Following Rommel's return to Germany he began to express his conviction that Germany was fighting a lost cause and became associated with individuals who were plotting to oust Hitler and make peace with the Allies. Following an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler in July, 1944, several of the participants implicated General Rommel in the plot and some members of his staff were executed. Not wanting it known that a hero of Rommel's status was involved in the plot against him, Hitler approved a plan to give Rommel the choice between suicide or arrest for treason. Rommel chose the former and took a fatal dose of poison supplied by the messengers who delivered the ultimatum to him on October 14, 1944.
You're certainly looking for the so called "desert fox". He was the leading general of the German ground troops (also leading supporting air commands, I guess). His name and title: general field marshal Erwin Rommel
Manfred von Richtoffen Rommel and Louise Schiewnhoff
General Erwin Rommel was forced to poison himself because he was suspected of plotting against Hitler.
By applying a greatly superior force to that led by Rommel and cutting his supply line from Italy preventing most supplies and reinforcements arriving.
Rommel was universally known as "The Desert Fox".
WW2 general.