Rommel Promoted to Field Marshal

Date: June 22, 1942 • Location: Berlin, Germany

World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and Imperial German Army of the German Empire.