General Montgomery VS General Rommel

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Even the formidable Nazi propaganda machine could do little to make Germany’s position appear anything but compromised by the beginning of October 1944. For the early part of the war, after Nazi tanks had first stormed into Poland, it appeared that Adolf Hitler was invincible, and as time went on this was something that the German Fuhrer not only believed, but also took for granted. But ever since the Americans had entered the war to fight for the Allies after the Japanese bombing of the US Naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hitler and his Axis of Evil had been put under increasing pressure on a global scale.

So, to recap a lot of history to absorb, lets look again at the key points. In North Africa by late 1942 the Germans had been defeated at the Second Battle of El Alamein as General Bernard Montgomery and the British Eighth Army had taken on Hitler’s “Desert Fox”, General Erwin Rommel and won. Montgomery’s determination was equal to anything shown by the Germans to date, as typified on the eve of an earlier battle when he had destroyed all contingency plans for withdrawal, telling his officers “If we are attacked, then there will be no retreat. If we cannot stay here alive, then we will stay here dead”.

It was this remarkable fighting spirit that was beginning to shine through for the Allies, whether fighting in the European or Pacific Theatre of War, that was making all the difference. The tide was fast turning against Hitler.

Directed and narrated by Liam Dale