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Before ww2, Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel fought as an officer cadet in 1910 and then was promoted to second 2nd Lieutenant two years later. In World War 1 he served in France and Romanian front. After WW1 he became and instructor and wrote his own book about military tactics. When World War 2 began, he was promoted to Major General and had to protect Adolf Hitler during the invasion of Poland. His greatest success was in Egypt 1942. When he was put in command in Italy he was once again promoted to commander in chief of all the German armies in July. In the battle of Normandy, the Germans were not able to fight off the Allies from entering and Erwin Rommel was wounded by Allie aircraft. He died October 14 1944.

Heinrich Himmler, born in Munich, Germany on October 7th 1900. In World War 1 he joined the 11th Bavarian Regiment then became an officer cadet of the German army. He was a follower to Hitler and because Hitler was easily convinced to flatter and made Heinrich the new leader of his bodyguard, the Schutzstaffel. In 1933 Himmlers numbers grew to 53,000 men. In 1940, Heinrich created the Waffen SS which immediately grew to 150,000 soldiers in 6 months and during WW2 they were also in charge of killing Jewish people. Four years later, Hitler put Himmler in command of the German army to face the American army. When he realized he would not be able to defeat them, he seeked for help from Great Britain and the U.S. Hitler, however, found out about Himmler's plan and wanted him arrested. Before Heinrich Himmler could be arrested, he commited suicide by eating a cyanide pill.

Before he became an Italian military leader in World War 2, he was a journalist and fled to Switzerland to avoid being drafted into the army. Benito Mussolini was born in 1833 in Italy. When the first world war began, he joined the Italian army and was ranked to corparal until he was wounded in battle. He went back to being a journalist for the local newspaper. When WW1 ended and a new war began, he was put in charge and Italy controlled Somalia and Eritrea. They have attempted to take over Ethiopia but have failed. To show that Italy had brutal strength, Mussolini sent his whole army in Ethiopia and won. As soon as Hitler learned about Benito's success, he was inspired and when Adolf Hitler gained control of Germany he immediately became allies with Italy. They became strong allies but Italy did not declare war on Britain and France until 1940. America planned to take Italy out of the war and to do that they had to take over Sicily where they hoped Benito would be in. Britain and the U.S. landed in Italy and started taking it over. This created many problems for Benito and he was placed under arrest.

Captain Otto Skorzeny became famous worldwide for his involvement in the rescue of Benito Mussolini on September 1943. He was recruited when world war 2 started but was not showing any sign of becoming a high ranked commando. In Russia Otto participated in the battle as a technical officer in the 2nd Waffen group. He was wounded in battle and rushed to a hospital and once he left he was assigned to a non-combat position. He argued about the German's Waffen and that it needed a new technical official. He took the position and was promoted Captain and was put in Berlin. On July 26, 1943 his troops were all ready and Hitler assigned them to save the dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini. Hitler summoned 6 commandos including Captain Otto Skorzeny and he was chosen to do the objective which was to save Benito. They saved Benito and returned to Germany. He was then to return to his regular base and received honors. When he left he became a millionaire and soon died in 1975.

General Heinz Guderian was born in Germany on June 17, 1888 and joined the army in the first world war. He was commissioned in the Jaegers in 1908. He became an inspector of motorized troops. "He began to study the experience of tanks during the war and was greatly influenced by the ideas of British military writers" (Spartacus). Because of this he was appointed as a teacher in tank tactics. In 1938, he was promoted to lieutenant general and in that same year Hitler was satisfied with his knowledge in motorized troops and promoted him to Chief of Mobile Troops. Heinz tried to explain to the Chief of Staff that tanks would be a large impact in warfare but he would not listen and continue on with walking troops. Although Heinz did lead the Germans in Poland and gained the victory and created the great shock to the world. Although after countless times of arguing with Adolf about changing the armies tactics, he was removed from office in 1941. He was soon captured by the U.S. army and was released from arrest in 1948. He died in 1954.