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The Desert Fox
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Desert Fox is a 1951 Film of the Book (The Desert Fox) starring James Mason as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. These codified the 'Rommel myth' of the late German officer as an 'honourable martial genius' in the Anglosphere.The film shows the downfall of his career between fall 1942 and October 1944, from the Second Battle of El Alamein to his involvement in the July 20 Plot, resulting in his suicide. Typically for an English-language film released just six years after World War II, the film is incredibly sympathetic to Rommel and other German officers - portraying them all as non-Nazi or even anti-Nazi professionals who are only serving the Nazis because they love and want to defend their country from Communism. The truth was a lot more complex than this.Has a pseudo-sequel or companion film in The Desert Rats, in which Rommel (Mason again) is a lot less sympathetic.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: When Rommel arrives back in North Africa, he has a sneezing fit and when it's done, several officers offer up their handkerchiefs. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: "The Desert Fox" is portrayed as a martial genius without much nuance given to his actual strengths and weaknesses. This is consistent with wartime Allied propaganda, which talked up Rommel's abilities to explain their repeated defeats against Rommel's smaller forces - these defeats also being the product of poor Allied understanding of tank warfare, as well as outmatched commanders such as Ritchie and Cunningham (Auchinlek generally performed a lot better against Rommel than they did). In this period, a Tactical commander who was a Frontline General was just doing their job. But an Operational commander who was a Frontline General may not have been. If they were away from a command post, their ability to understand the overall situation or command their men effectively became much more difficult, as this required multiple high-power radios and a typing pool.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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In this period, a Tactical commander who was a Frontline General was just doing their job. But an Operational commander who was a Frontline General may not have been. If they were away from a command post, their ability to understand the overall situation or command their men effectively became much more difficult, as this required multiple high-power radios and a typing pool. | |
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Action Prologue: Begins with a British commando raid on Rommel's headquarters. | |
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