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
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).
20 July plot
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The 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi government on 20 July 1944. The pl
Rommel myth
…German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany due to his presumed participation in the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler, which led to Rommel's forced suicide in 1944. According to these historians, who take a critical view of Rommel, such depictions…
Martin Bormann, Hermann Göring, and Bruno Loerzer surveying the damaged conference room
Battle fronts in Europe as of 15 July 1944
Stauffenberg with Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim in June 1944
Generaloberst Ludwig Beck