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# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:03:26.824Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was born 15 November 1891 and decorated for valor on the Italian Front in World War I, earning the Pour le Mérite. In 1937 he published Infantry Attacks, a tactics manual drawn from that experience. When war returned he led the 7th Panzer Division into France in 1940, then took command of German and Italian forces in North Africa, where his handling of armor made him one of the war's ablest tank commanders. He pledged allegiance to the Nazi regime after 1933 and remained loyal to Hitler, though not to the party or the SS. In 1944, commanding forces against the Normandy invasion, he was implicated in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Given the choice between suicide and a show trial, he took cyanide on 14 October 1944. The regime announced he'd died from wounds sustained in an air attack and gave him a state funeral.