ROMMEL'S ALLEGED MURDERER ARRESTED
Received Sundav, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 9. The police arrested near Berchtesgaden the former Lieut.-General Ernst Maisel as an accomplice in the alleged murder of Rommel on Hitler's orders. The German "News Ageney said the arrest occurred on September 15. According to Rommel 's widow, Maisel and General Birgdorf, Hitler's personai adjutant, arrived at Rommel 's home near Ulm on October 14, 1944, the day Rommel died. Rommel at that time was recovering from wounds received when an American fighter shot at his car on the western front, but after Maisel and Birgdorf had interviewed Rommel, Rommel told his wife that on Hitler's orders the generals had brought poison which would take effect in three seconds and he had only a quarter of an hour to live. His wife added that Rommel left in a car with the generals. Later she learned that his body had been taken to the Ulm hospital. Hitler ordered a State funeral.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1947, Page 4
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