Was the Desert Fox an honest soldier or just another Nazi? The reputation of Erwin Rommel, a German general admired by Churchill, is now looking tarnished Tony Paterson Sunday 04 December 2011 01: ...

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Mr Proske is not the only German historian committed to reappraising the general. A new warts-and-all feature film about Rommel is scheduled to be shown on German television next year.