07/23/2020 July 23, 2020. A statue of a land mine victim has been set next to the monument dedicated to Erwin Rommel in Heidenheim, the German hometown of the popular WWII general.

AS the son of the brilliant World War II general Erwin Rommel, Manfred Rommel was born with one of the most evocative names in 20th-century history. Read Today's Paper Mind Games.

Manfred Rommel, longtime mayor of Stuttgart, was 15 when his father Erwin Rommel committed suicide during WWII ...