Episode 107: Erwin Rommel: North Africa & the Desert Fox legend

In today's episode, we continue our exploration of the life and times of Erwin Rommel as he is sent to North Africa and his reputation grows.

Welcome to World War II: Both Sides of the Wire, the podcast where we lift the lid, bust the myths, and explore the incredible history of the Second World War from the Allied and Axis perspectives.

I'm Jesse Alexander, a public historian specializing in the history of the two world wars.

And I am Matthias Horn, German officer, professor of military studies, and author.

Hi, Jesse.

Here we are again.

Another week, another podcast.

Rommel part two.

When we started to think about a Rommel episode, I think we said we're going to have one.

I think we're now probably in the realm of I don't know how many.

Folks, we see, we see how it goes.

[laughs] More than one.

More than one.

And we also, if you listened to the last episode, of course, we, we managed to throw in a few tangents as always.

So see, see where we're going today from the, uh, the hot desert to I don't know what tangent, uh, it might take us to.

But before we do that, maybe we need to, to recap a little bit.

So Jesse, where, where are we in the, in the Rommel story, and what have we covered so far?