News about Erwin Rommel

Online shoe shop Luxoro Formello is hit with furious backlash for selling footwear named after leading Nazis and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 24, 2024
India-based firm Luxoro Formello, which has more than 20,000 followers on Instagram , was selling the shoes for £115. One design was named after Karl Donitz (bottom right), the Nazi navy chief who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as leader of Germany after the dictator's suicide in May 1945. Another was named in honour of German Second World War general Erwin Rommel (top right) - who was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox' - and billed as having 'peerlessly refined overtones'. A third design named after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (left) was described as having an 'appealingly pared-back design'. The listings were spotted by American historian Dr Waitman Wade Beorn who posted images of them on X. He asked, 'what the hell is going on here?' and joked: 'Slip on these stylish loafers as you slip out of the Führerbunker with your Nazi pals.'

MailOnline reunites 'Papa & Nicole,' a show-stopping of classic 90s Renault Clio TV commercials

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 18, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: They were two of the best actors on British television in the 1990s, winning millions of viewers for their portrayal of 'Papa and Nicole' in Renault Clio ads. Max Douchin, the super suave, château-owning Frenchman, appeared, and Estelle Stornik sang his beautiful daughter. Both became sex symbols as they embarked on romantic adventures, dazzling millions of Brits with their Gallic style and sophistication. So much so that many people wept when they appeared together for the last time in May 1998, many of whom seemed to be mourning the demise of a glorious period of frivolity and Provençal sunshine.

The incredible story of New Zealand's World War 2 Māori battalion

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 19, 2023
It is one of the most iconic and memorable photographs from the Second World War, with Maori infantrymen bristling with warrior spirit, mid-haka in Egypt in 1941. The soldiers from the celebrated 28th (Mori) Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Division look well groomed but fearful and fearful, ready for any enemy. They lived up to the vigor captured in the picture after six bloody years of war.