Has anyone any details on his WW1 career,a young Leutnant awarded the PLM in 1918?
The Trail of the Fox,David IrvingHis main striking force was the Twenty-fifth Panzer Regiment,for which Berlin had given him Colonel Karl Rothenburg,a tough ex-police colonel who had, like Rommel, won the Pour le Mérite as a company commander in 1918 At forty-four, he was one of Germany’s finest tank regiment commanders. Like Rommel,he figured that he had escaped death so many times that he was already living on an overdraft of life.