Welcome to Brown Cafe, Desert Fox! (can't remember if we welcomed you in '07).
Thank you for the 6 wonderful posts you've made over the last 3 years. You'll need to do a little better than that if you want to catch up to Moreluck.
(I wonder if he ever came over to UPS...)
I thought he wrote his name as "Desert Wolf"? If it really is the "Desert Fox" and you are alive I salute you General Rommel the only respectable and noble German from the second world war!!!
Some facts about the real "Desert Fox" since the thread is already way off topic:
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (
listen (help·info)) (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox (
Wüstenfuchs,
listen (help·info)), was a famous
German Field Marshal of
World War II.
He was a highly decorated officer in
World War I, awarded the
Pour le Mérite for his exploits on the
Italian front. In World War II, he further distinguished himself as the commander of the
Ghost Division during the
1940 invasion of France. However, it was his leadership of German and Italian forces in the
North African campaign that established the legend of the Desert Fox. He is considered to have been one of the most skilled commanders of
desert warfare in the war.
[1] He later commanded the German forces opposing the
Allied cross-channel
invasion in Normandy.
Rommel is regarded as a humane and professional officer. His
Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured
commandos,
Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.
[2]
Late in the war, Rommel was linked to the
conspiracy to kill
Adolf Hitler. Throughout the war, Rommel was a highly prized national hero, the "Desert Fox' of Germany. Due to his wide renown, Hitler chose to eliminate him quietly. In trade for the protection of his family, Rommel agreed to commit suicide. The reason behind his death did not become known until the
Nuremberg Trials.