2 In 1859, Joseph Rainey traveled to Philadelphia, where he met and married his wife, Susan, also a halfâFrench mulatto, originally from the West Indies. Rainey continued to work as a barber, and the couple had three children: Joseph II, Herbert, and Olivia.
For other uses, see Rommel (disambiguation). Erwin Rommel (15 November 1891 â 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a field marshal (senior military commander) in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Rommel was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Pour le MÃ©rite for his actions on the Italian Front.
Erwin Rommel was born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany, on 15th November, 1891. According to Mark M. Boatner III : His stoutly middle-class family had the admirable qualities of their native Swabia.ommel was so popular that Hitler was unwilling to have him executed for treason. Hitler sent two officers to Rommel's home at Herrlingen on 14th October, 1944. His son, Manfred Rommel later recalled that his father told him: I have just had to tell your mother that I shall be dead in a quarter of an hour.