Rommel's presence, as ever, acted as a tonic on his troops. Anybody who once came under the spell of his personality, a brother officer wrote, turned into a "real soldier". However tough the strain Rommel seemed inexhaustible, seemed to know exactly how the enemy would probably react. The same officer wrote that Rommel had an exceptional imagination, seemed to know no fear whatsoever, and that his men "idolized him".

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Rommel's presence, as ever, acted as a tonic on his troops. Anybody who once came under the spell of his personality, a brother officer wrote, turned into a "real soldier". However tough the strain Rommel seemed inexhaustible, seemed to know exactly how the enemy would probably react. The same officer wrote that Rommel had an exceptional imagination, seemed to know no fear whatsoever, and that his men "idolized him"." in the context of "David William Fraser, on Rommel's role on the battlefields of World War I, in Knight's Cross : A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel‎ (1994), Ch. 3, Gebirgsbataillon, p. 40" to mean that wisdom is timeless.