 Rommel was pleased by the media attention, both domestic and foreign, often discussing it in letters to his wife.Hitler took note of the British propaganda as well, commenting in the summer of 1942 that Britain's leaders must have hoped "to be able to explain their defeat to their own nation more easily by focusing on Rommel".Rommel was the German commander most frequently covered in the German media, and the only one to be given a press conference, which took place in October 1942.