“Honorable men”: Robert E. Lee, Erwin Rommel, and the Memory and Forgetting of Defeat and Guilt

In October 2017, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly criticized those who wanted to bring down statues of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, defending him as “an honorable man.” Geraldo Rivera also took part in the heated debate about Confederate monuments: “#RobertELee is a lot like #ErwinRomm...

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Main Author: Andreas Etges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2025-05-01
Series:USAbroad
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Online Access:https://usabroad.unibo.it/article/view/20478
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