Complex sentence: Colonel Brandt orders Kiesel to be evacuated, telling him that men like him will be needed to rebuild Germany after the war, and rallies the fleeing troops for a hopeless counterattack.
Split into simpler sentences: Colonel Brandt orders Kiesel to be evacuated, telling him that men like him will be needed to rebuild Germany after the war. Brandt then rallies the fleeing troops for a hopeless counterattack.