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Erwin Rommel's widow, Lucie Marie Rommel acted as a technical consultant and adviser to this movie. She was played by Jessica Tandy in the film itself. Mrs. Rommel lent the production some of her husband's personal artifacts and liaised with Nunnally Johnson, the film's producer and screenwriter. As Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, Mrs Rommel later also acted as a military consultant to the film The Longest Day (1962) made by 20th Century-Fox, the same studio that produced this movie.
The extent to which Erwin Rommel actually supported Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology is still widely disputed.
It is still unknown if Erwin Rommel had any actual involvement in the July Bomb Plot. Rommel may have been falsely implicated by one of the plotters while under torture. The Nazis believed he was aware of various anti-Hitler plots, and that he should have reported the traitors to the SS.
The success of the film was instrumental in allowing the public rehabilitation of the Wehrmacht and West German rearmament during the Korean War.
Erwin Rommel was gaining his attack information from an American liaison at the British Embassy in Cairo whose messages the German secret service had decoded. He used the data from the liaison's messages to plan his attacks on the Allied troops, and in fact Adolf Hitler openly praised the fellow for giving the Germans information through his badly coded messages.
"Field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt: [It's] too late for me. I'm seventy now - too old to fight, too old to challenge authority, however evil... but not too old, however, to wish you and your friends the best of luck in their extremely interesting enterprise."
"Field Marshal Keitel: Have you any better suggestions? Field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt: Yes, one very much better. Make peace, you idiot!"
