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Not really. I think this nickname refers to Lagus' leadership in the summer 1941 when he led the attack of reinforced 1st Jäger Brigade deep into East Karelia. Finnish jäger troops advanced very rapidly a bit like Rommel's 7.Pz.Div. had run in France in 1940 and his troops also later in North Africa. The analogy is quite relevant in this sense.Art wrote:That is certainly an overstatement. The Finnish armored division despite the name was mostly a bicycle infantry unit, the role of armored elements was fairly limited. That was a very different type of warfare compared with the North-African campaign and analogies are not quite adequate.Northwind wrote:The foreign press called him as "The finnish Rommel".
Besides Rommel was a known name in Finland already in the 1930's because of his book on motorized and tank warfare. Perhaps the quite correct nickname would have been "poor man's Rommel"...