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Journal and Life Summary of Manfred Rommel
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War Journal
Date: October 15, 1944
It is the day after my father was forced to kill himself. I am overwhelmed by the emotions of anger, sadness and confusion. My father was forced to kill himself because of his connections to the attempt of assassination on Hitler. The people that gave him the cyanide pill gave him the option of a trial but then my mother and I would not have been safe from Hitler and his other generals. He chose instead to take a cyanide pill and die quietly. The government would then claim that he died of his injuries because his car had recently been bombed and he was injured by it. He told me and my mother that he was going to kill himself minutes before he took the pill. He left our house in a car with two men and a driver. I later learned that they had pulled to the side of the road and he took the pill. About an hour later we were phoned and told that he was dead. He was given a state funeral and all the proper respect that a great general would have been given. I appreciate what the government has done for him but I still believe that Hitler should be silenced. He is bringing this country into darkness and he is destroying this country by continuing the war. I cannot voice my opinion out-loud but I wish that Hitler were gone.
(While most of the facts portrayed in this article are real, some of these ideas are possible thoughts of Manfred Rommel after the death of his father.)
Date: October 15, 1944
It is the day after my father was forced to kill himself. I am overwhelmed by the emotions of anger, sadness and confusion. My father was forced to kill himself because of his connections to the attempt of assassination on Hitler. The people that gave him the cyanide pill gave him the option of a trial but then my mother and I would not have been safe from Hitler and his other generals. He chose instead to take a cyanide pill and die quietly. The government would then claim that he died of his injuries because his car had recently been bombed and he was injured by it. He told me and my mother that he was going to kill himself minutes before he took the pill. He left our house in a car with two men and a driver. I later learned that they had pulled to the side of the road and he took the pill. About an hour later we were phoned and told that he was dead. He was given a state funeral and all the proper respect that a great general would have been given. I appreciate what the government has done for him but I still believe that Hitler should be silenced. He is bringing this country into darkness and he is destroying this country by continuing the war. I cannot voice my opinion out-loud but I wish that Hitler were gone.
(While most of the facts portrayed in this article are real, some of these ideas are possible thoughts of Manfred Rommel after the death of his father.)