"Mythos Erwin Rommel" Docu/WDR 2020, 59 minutes (D)

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"Mythos Erwin Rommel" Docu/WDR 2020, 59 minutes (D)

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Post by Hans1906 » 09 Oct 2020, 12:24

Good afternoon,

on october 7th, 2020, a 60 minutes long docu about Erwin Rommel in the german TV series "Planet Wissen".

Translation from the "Planet Wissen" website:

"After initial war successes in North Africa, the cinema newsreel and radio built up Wehrmacht General Erwin Rommel into an early media hero: at the time an absolutely new phenomenon. It was only when he was suspected in 1944 of having supported the July 20 assassins that Hitler had him put up for election: Death penalty by the People's Court or suicide with a cyanide capsule. How justified this suspicion was is still preoccupying historians today, such as the Potsdam military historian Peter Lieb and the Stuttgart historian Wolfram Pyta"

Link to the full docu in the ARD Mediathek, av. until 07.10.2025:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/video/p ... zlkNDdmYw/

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