 While Allied troops respected Rommel, civilians held the "widely accepted" negative image of Rommel's origin and his connection with the Nazis.As described by Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck (who debunked the invented story) and "The New York Times in 1943", "It has been said that Rommel started his career as a Hitler hoodlum and owes his quick rise to his early collaboration with Himmler.