For 10 points, name this German leader of the Afrika Korps during World War II, a man known as "the Desert Fox."
This man's namesake "asparagus" refers to wooden poles meant to deter aerial invasion, while he dismissed the idea of an Atlantic Wall as "cloud cuckoo land." He rose to prominence after capturing a 10,000-man division retreating after Caporetto. Operation Bodyguard tried to mislead this man and his superior about a potential landfall at Calais, while Operation Crusader prevented this man's troops from succeeding in its siege of Tobruk. He was allowed to take poison rather than face trial after the failed July 20 plot of Claus von Stauffenberg. This man's forces lost to Bernard Montgomery at the battle of El Alamein in Egypt. For 10 points, name this German leader of the Afrika Korps during World War II, a man known as "the Desert Fox."
This man's namesake "asparagus" refers to wooden poles meant to deter aerial invasion, while he dismissed the idea of an Atlantic Wall as "cloud cuckoo land."
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel