Erwin Rommel
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Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, known as The Desert Fox, was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Repu
Rommel in 1942
Lieutenant Rommel in Italy, 1917
Rommel and Adolf Hitler in Goslar, 1934
Hitler in Poland (September 1939). Rommel is on his left and Martin Bormann on his right.
Rommel myth
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The Rommel myth, or the Rommel legend, is a phrase used by a number of historians for the common depictions of German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a vict
Erwin Rommel
…authors portray him as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany, although others have contested this assessment and called it the "Rommel myth". Rommel's reputation for conducting a clean war was used in the interest of the West German rearmament and reconciliation between the former enemies…
Rommel at the Paris victory parade, June 1940. Rommel had access to Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels via Karl Hanke, who served under Rommel in 1940.
Portrait of Erwin Rommel, by Wolfgang Willrich (1941)
One of the many Nazi propaganda photographs of Rommel's inspection tours along the Atlantic Wall.
Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats (1953).