[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

- Manfred Rommel

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

- Manfred Rommel

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that Germany should have a great interest to leave the war with a peace under conditions.

- Manfred Rommel

It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I…

- Manfred Rommel

So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father deci…

- Manfred Rommel

I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it…

- Manfred Rommel

It may be that [Erwin Rommel] believed it to be possible to convince [Adolf] Hitler to go away and to end the war, but Hitler never dreamed of doing …

- Manfred Rommel

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too strong and the stra…

- Manfred Rommel

Of course, [Adolf] Hitler was a dilettante, but he was a completely amoral person. Yes, he had no morals at all.

- Manfred Rommel