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Wednesday, March 22, 1978

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Sober portrait of the legendary Rommel

Erwin Rommel was perhaps the most legendary enilitany

commander of World) War-Il, a stocky, humourless
Swabian with the daring of.a highwayman, an engineer’s

eye for detail, and an insatiable hunger for fame and glory.

Although it was his desert adventure in- North Africa that:
gave him his flickname, Rommel had fought his earlier
campaigns no_ less spectacularly in Italy as a .young
licutenant in 1917, and as a panzer commander ‘in the
French invasion in 1940.

Ife became Hitler’s. favourite, but- his name was spoken: -
with respect in parliament, where Churchill fixed blame

‘Yor the African debacle mits simply on the “great general’?

opposing him.

English historian’ David - Irving has gone after - this.

‘ plamoreus figure with the zeal of an investigative reporter,
“tracking down dusty letters and records on two continents

Sand interviewing virtually every principal ‘who survived. -
; a thrilling ‘read, and a sober portrait of ~
contraditions® -

= The result.is both a

Heritage Week.

milk --- made butter,
homemade jam for a picnic.

childhood.

ruthless and humane, vainglorious and selfless, manic and
depressive. .

We get the whole story through Rommel’s eyes, and the -
man himself is given to us in impressive detail.

His genius lay j in his brazen ability to exploit inferior and
demoralized enemy ‘troops. In France, in 1940, he turned
up in so many places he couldn't be that his panzers were

_ called the spook’ division. ‘There and in Africa, destaining

logistics, intelligence and numbers, he’d set off for the next

By Mary K Kierans

objective at breakneck speed and capture i it with a couple
of-tanks and trucks equipped to raise as- much. dust as

; possible. :

Hitler and the. Ger man, people loved him, of course,

‘because he.was a winner; his troops. worshipned him, win
or lose, because he was there.”

The
Brass ' Quintet; five
young ~ men who ©
play. everything
from Scott Joplin to.
© Debussy..and* who

‘the: ‘music . world,
will be appearing at
the Royal Theatre
March 27 at 8 p.m.
Left to ~ right,
Frederic. Mills,
trumpet, ..Graeme
Page,» frenchhorn,
Charles. Daellen- |
bach, tuba,’ Eugene’
Watts, - trombone,
Ronald Romm,
trumpet,

_ Springwood needs volunteers”

A home for mentally handie apped adults which provides

Ui HIE, work and recreation for residents heeds volun
1eeT SO help oul with programs,

Rosier slirector Pauk Best of Springwood on. Mount

New ton Cross Road says. the, home’ 8 goals to integrate

Smddenhy into. the community through work and social

pfletivaties, ‘Tooavhieve this aim, he sayss V volunteers are

“yeedcd Co amement the ba sual members who run ithe home.

en vou divs a week, 24 hours a day, :
“We're looking for dependable peaples Wi isn" necessary

tor then 10 hive any ip titlents, dust a willlnneness to

Hh

Shed be os J
four “they \ will be depressed hy ‘close

Sane people, he s satys,
“enon wih ie mentally handicapped, “It-works out the
Sather waive Phese peaple are open, honest, trusting. and

_opomcdaneaits ane they don't ‘sumeplay? They Rive offan

SST Lo appiness rtther Jhan depression“
Phe > program tains residents in housekeeping, pare
seas, tndelig Me maintenance skills and some of them
> Pocus protivient enough to.work outside during the day,
Luttenity, one person is working ina bakery, others are

egayploawd i fight housekeeping and (yo: men ire doing:

SA eda work ata tocabehurchy

Anna Wyman Dance Theatre

The Anna Wynn Dance. Cultural Olympies sin
Theane retitins to Vietaria | Moutreale so.
JNprab 8 Wate a ewe Tntecnational recognition
ULE > DCC HONs pe Hit sang year when
Ait omiisie by loli Mills Tt Aga Wynn was the sole

(oy hells
Livinala,

Sixes. and Sevens
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participant invited.
Canada tv the Gulbenkian

oFareenb cand Twas Peoples | Baundation to. a national
mete by Uindel and Scan choreographic © schoal -in
ee Lann Fraland as one of eight

Tn 19% 8, athowing etd | charedrraphers sinvled ont:
at eerteerts in Varncoivery: Tor them ansual potential,
He sam pany toured Tivkets are available | at
Canadbe cand: represented | the MePheron Playhouse |
Brvih. Cubamibin ar the and {Hillside Mall. ,

tron:

But one of the problems of getting residents out into the
sommmunity is transportition, Volunteer drivers are needed
fortike ‘heople fo work of 10 det as escorts on outings.’

ALE 22 adults: takes a drip into Victoria once weekly to
Shap al catouty- but Best doesn't like the idea of “herding:
(hese people around inca pack. ‘Ff there were enough
volunteers, residents could be split Mp: 40 do. their, shopping”:

“tid: sightseeing, hesays.: ar

“Anyone Who enjoys pardening: would: he wialgomie asa.

“volttnteer: to help: get the home's: vegetable: garden: going
thisspring, and to tri ain residents,

Volunteers are. needed: also. in’ the kitchen to train
residents i the preparation of food and as supervisors who:
willabo offer some input into agym program running one:
Wiehe aweek at Siamichton school,

Best has cightvolinteers at present. and involvement:
vilries froma couple of hours weekly toa day or more,

—-Feromore infornration, Paul Best cun be contacted, at
OS2-1O13, -

ALIGNIMEN?
ALANCIN

Games granny used to play - using nose to push potato
along floor in race.

It was learning made fun with students dressing up
oldtime style in bonnets and long dresses. They made i¢e
cream - the old fashioned way with eggs, cream and
baked

They sang old songs, played games their parents had

forgotten and listened to stories by visiting grannies and
grandads who regaled the children with tales of their

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THE REVIEW

Bridging the generation gap

Finding out how Grandma and grandpa lived when
they were youngsters was part of a special learning
“experience for students at Sansbury and McTavish
elementary schools March 6-10 when they celebrated

strict in’ your day -
people get married?” .
“Students loved it

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bread ‘and produced.

said t

sacher Phil Mesner.
headed up the Heritage Unit taught at the schools last
year and was the facilitator for Heritage Week this year.

And the youngsters loved this excursion back into
time. Grandparents. who talked to classes received ‘a
flood of questions from. cager listeners - ‘* Were schools
“Did you have television?” -

“Did

He

Students also enjoyed field: trips to Saanich Museum

charts.

There were defects, however, in both the man and his
methods. On the“attack, Rommel was tireless, immune to
enemy. fire, almost. mystically “intuitive. Once stalled,
however, he moped and floundered like any other general.
Irving implies that he could have won both the great battle
with Montgomery at El Alamein, and the later encounter
with Eisenhower if his nervé hadn’t failed him.

~ Demoralized. again after his failures in France where he

~ had most of his forees wrongly placed, Rommel talked with

the wrong people about the desirability of. negotiating

directly with the allies for surrender.

The ‘wrong, people’*. were in this case members of the
assassination plot against Hitler. Rommel knew nothing
about it, but he was: fatally implicated and accepted ‘his
‘Fuhrer’s offer: of private . suicide .and) publi¢é com-
ation. Not. even Hitler dared to execute the desert
fox.

The Trail:of the Fox by David Irving, is now available
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