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Rommel: The Desert Fox

Warfare

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The Death of Field Marshal Rommel

Rommel's usually been depicted as a brilliant military leader. He wasn't beguiled by Nazism to the point where he participated in that July 20th plot to oust to kill Hitler. To what extent is this myth, this Rommel myth, to what extent is it true? Was he really that great and that apolitical? So I think it is a myth and it's a myth on several fronts. We have to look back to post-war Germany to understand why that myth came forward.

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