TIME
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, fresh from a tour of Nazi defenses in captive Denmark, paraded ceremoniously throughCopenhagen. Stony-faced Danes lingered on the sidewalks long after the famed “Desert Fox” had passed.
Asked a Gestapo officer: “What’s the matter? Rommel is not coming back.Whom are you waiting for?”
Said the Danes: “Montgomery.”
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