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 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 are not accurate.
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.
One of the many Nazi propaganda photographs of Rommel's inspection tours along the Atlantic Wall.
British historian B. H. Liddell Hart's introduction to The Rommel Papers drew comparisons between Rommel and Lawrence of Arabia, "two masters of desert warfare".
An iconic picture of Rommel as the "Common Man", helping to free up his staff car alongside his men.
Alfred-Ingemar Berndt
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Alfred-Ingemar Berndt was a German Nazi journalist, writer and close collaborator of Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
First lieutenant James Gordon Dennis