Manfred Rommel was in Westminster Abbey on 14 October 1992 for a special service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battle of El Alamein, and read from Romans 12: 9-18 "Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honour ..." A few minutes before, the 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein had read from Micah.
Afterwards, the Dean of Westminster, Michael Mayne, wrote: "I couldn't help thinking how strange it was, remembering how as a schoolboy in 1942 I had stuck flags in a map of North Africa as the desert campaign unfolded, that Montgomery and Rommel were now drinking coffee together in my drawing room."
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