 He states that "The Desert Fox" had a "catalytic effect" in creating an image of the German armed forces that would be acceptable to the British public.Rommel was thus successfully integrated into the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.Petra Rau argues that Mason's Rommel (Contrasting with "Five Graves to Cairo", Rommel here was presented as representation of British virtues and thus a sympathetic figure), like other "Good Germans" in popular culture, is not portrayed as representative of Germans, but rather, an exceptional case who was surrounded by real Nazis.