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The Desert Fox was the nickname of the German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In WW2 he was the commander of the Nazi forces in North Africa.

He gained the nickname because of his quick, clever strategies in often outwitting the Allied forces, although he was defeated in the end.

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