 According to Atkinson, to counter the "perverse chivalry" ("war without hate", in Rommel's words) that Rommel promoted, the British and American authorities instituted hate training and tried to raise the eagerness to kill the enemies by stressing enemy brutality, as well as spatterring slaughterhouse blood in assault training courses.General John Strawson notes the same difference in attitudes to war between the leaderships of the two sides.The attention of the Western and especially the British press thrilled Goebbels, who wrote in his diary in early 1942