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Originally Posted by Ryne Muller
It's been suggested elsewhere and I think it makes sense, that Wittmann, being the Nazi Party's darling, grabbed all the headlines rather than an equally deserving whermacht panzer commander. Thus making him more infamous.
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I agree with you Ryne but would also like to suggest, that at the time, (Normandy) the Germans were in real need of a hero in the west, Wittman at Villers Bocage is just what the propaganda ministry needed to give the folks back home some encouragement. And it was quiet an achievment.