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The film shows Hitler 's best known general, Erwin Rommel, from the German defeat at El Alamein in 1942 to the time of the July 1944 plot against the Führer .This culminated in Rommel being accused of being involved (although this was never proved) and, in order to protect his family, being forced to commit suicide. The story is narrated by a Lieutenant Colonel serving in the Indian Army. Following an encounter with Rommel in Africa, he makes it his life duty following the war to discover what happened to Rommel during the final years of his life.