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that about famous leaders - they are always icons of something, whether they want it or not. Secondly, the propaganda treated him like a pop star - but the sentence says nothing about whether they successfully defined him as such. Hitler was treated like a hero and an icon of German heroism by the propaganda machine during the war. He is now a global iconic genocidal tyrant. There are a lot of works about that aspect of his too, just like there are a lot of artistic works that makes
Cleopatra a sex symbol/symbol of female sensuality and then there are a lot of scholarly works that investigate that aspect of hers. It serves no one to state that they are an icon of this and that in the first sentence. Any serious biography of Rommel or Cleopatra still focuses on their career as general or queen first and foremost.
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the general. Hitler was notable for his genocide. But he is still usually introduced first as "dictator of
Germany in World War II". By the way, Rommel's reputation or myth or legend, true or false, is often broader than "propaganda". Many critical authors (whose books' titles are often "the man and the myth", "end of a legend" etc) represent misconceptions (according to them) about him as people deliberately deceiving themselves to serve their psychological needs, or in other cases, misinterpreting historical events due to lack of information. They criticize but they do not simplify such problems.--
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Well-documented by whom, please specify. The section that you refer to presents a range of opinions. Terracina is kept because she refers directly to Rommel, but her basic statement, that Rommel was responsible for the deportation is not supported by other sources such as
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Johannes Eugen Rommel, byname the Desert Fox, German der Wüstenfuchs, (born November 15, 1891, Heidenheim, Germany—died October 14, 1944, Herrlingen, near Ulm), German field marshal who became the most popular general at home and gained the open respect of his enemies with
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Erwin Rommel is by any standard a mythical figure. He has been the subject of countless studies in
English and German. However, the Italian side of the hill” has been largely neglected, despite the fact that thefoundation of the myth around him lies in the North campaign,where, after all, thousands
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I agree that we do not need "the propaganda icon" tag in the first sentence, especially because of the paragraph about this aspect. Many works can discuss this aspect of his, but I have never seen a serious historian who writes "Erwin Rommel was a general and a propaganda icon" in his introduction of
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If you act like a regular editor and not an admin, I hope that in the future if you suddenly delete sourced information like that (I do not remember that you have been very active on this page or have discussed with me on the status of the "honest historian" Proske, whom has sometimes been mentioned
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There is already a whole paragraph in the lede about the matter - that is upfront enough for the readers, in my opinion. Besides, Müller's sentence is not really an introduction of Rommel in a biography or mini biography about him or any work that focuses on him. You can always find sentences like
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That presumes there is not a valid reason for them to be together. The location is northern France a couple of weeks before the Allies begin the invasion of North West Europe. A meeting to discuss the defences would not be unusual. If the plot succeeds, then there's no one to use it as evidence. If
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Marshal Erwin Rommel was a German military commander during World War II, chiefly in the North African theater of war. Until today he has arguably remained the best-known and most popular military leader of World War II. His tactical brilliance and chivalrous behavior, as well as German and
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Erwin Rommel was a German army officer who rose to the rank of Field
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Mussolini’s romantic, but futile, attempt to restore a lost Roman empire. It was a sideshow in the Nazi scheme of things until Rommel arrived in 1941 to save Mussolini. The Italians were far more brutal with civilians, including Libyan Jews, than Rommel’s Afrika
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Als Historiker würde er ihn einen Kriegsverbrecher nennen. Da er sich aber nicht sicher ist, ob diese Einstufung auch aus juristischer Sicht zu halten ist, nennt er Erwin Rommel schlicht einen NS-Täter und überlässt die weitere Beurteilung jedem selbst. Dies hat Wolfgang Proske bei einem gut
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Rommel is undoubtedly the German military commander of the Second World War best known in the United Kingdom, as most books about the Field Marshal were written by English historians. All these works focused on the North African Campaign of 1941/1942.
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Okay, here are just some examples, on top of my mind, of the way he is usually introduced today - these are the ones that mention the icon/propaganda/myth aspect - but no historian describes him as "German general/field marshal and propaganda
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Rommel was arguably the foremost Nazi figure in North Africa, and is well-documented to have been involved in persecution of North African Jews. As I understand it, this makes him a notable Holocaust perpetrator.
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Rommel was a propaganda icon both during and after WWII. If there's another way to write the same thing, go ahead and suggest it. But the reader is well-served by this article stating the fact right up front.
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the plot fails then they are all finished anyway. But it matters not why they photographed the meeting if there is a reliable source that says they did.
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A reference to the specific paragraphs/edits you are discussing would make it easier for us to dive into the discussion. Its hard to follow... --John (
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I do not see that in the source. Could you please quote where in the source linked this information is provided? Thanks.
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