The Night I Danced with Rommel: Unbroken Bonds - 1 Hilde's story

The Night I Danced with Rommel: Unbroken Bonds - 1 Hilde's story

‘May I have this dance, Hilde’ asked Field Marshal Rommel, opening the Grande Ball held in his honour.<br />Did this dance save the life of Hilde’s Polish friends?<br /><br />Hilde had come a long way since her dream of becoming a singer was shattered when her father made arrangements for her to work as a housekeeper in Berlin at the tender age of fourteen.<br /><br />Hilde’s life is thrown into turmoil in Berlin during the late 1920’s early 1930’s. Having Polish friends meant it was becoming increasingly unsafe for her to stay there and she finds a new life in the Harz mountains.<br /><br />In Goslar, Hilde meets her husband, Karl, a young officer in the German Army. <br />When he joins the 7th Panzer Brigade led by General Erwin Rommel at the beginning of World War II, Hilde is left to bring up their children in war-torn Germany.<br /><br />Hilde’s story is based on facts and is told here by her youngest daughter, Elisabeth.