Allied leaders and Germans complimented each other

harryo

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Most people are ignorant on military issues. Allied leaders complimented the enemy and vice versa
It's professionalism. There's nothing wrong with it

'''''7. Rommel and Allied leaders didn’t hesitate to compliment each other.​

During the height of Rommel’s success in North Africa, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sang his praises before the House of Commons. “We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us,” Churchill declared, “and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.” George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and other top Allied generals likewise expressed their respect for him, and Rommel responded in kind, saying of Patton that “we saw the most astonishing achievement in mobile warfare,” and that “Montgomery never made a serious strategic mistake''''

 

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