ROMMEL’S DEATH
AGREED TO TAKE OWN LIFE GERMAN GENERAL’S STORY N.Z.P.A. Special CorrespondentCopyright.. 'LONDON, Nov. 16. A Frankfurt message states_ that Lieutenant-general Ernst Meisel, a former member of Field-Marshal Rommel’s staff who was charged before a Bavarian court with complicity-in the murder of Rommel, stated that during October, 1944, he was ordered to accompany General Wilhelm Burgdorf, of the German General Staff, to Rommel’s home, near Ulm, where they jointly charged him with participating in the general’s plot to murder Hitler on July 20,'1944. Invited “to draw the necessary conclusion,” Rommel agreed to take his own life, but said that, in view of his wound, he would rather not trust to his pistol. After speaking a few words to his wife, Rommel was accordingly driven by the two generals to a lonely spot outside Ulm, where Burgdorf ordered Meisel and the driver to leave him alone with Rommel. When they were summoned to return they found Rommel lying on the back seat of the car dead. The body of the dead FieldMarshal was then taken to hospital, where death was said to be due to poison. •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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186ROMMEL’S DEATH Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 5
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