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Rommel film criticised for depicting general as 'Nazi war criminal'

21 September 2011 5:51 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Family of respected second world war general Erwin Rommel object to his portrayal in German TV film

A German film about second world war general Erwin Rommel has been criticised by members of the soldier's family, who say it depicts him as a Nazi criminal who was in thrall to Hitler.

A famed military tactician, Rommel was known as the Desert Fox for his victories with the Afrika Korps over the British 8th Army in north Africa. Widely respected in Britain and Germany during and after the war, he was implicated in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler and often refused orders to murder Jews and other minorities captured during battle. But the new film, produced for the German TV channel Swr, suggests Rommel's attitude to the Nazis was ambiguous at best and has prompted an angry reaction from the general's family. They say advance publicity for the film depicts Rommel as "an upstart, »

- Ben Child

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