 Historian Antony Beevor places the start of the "Rommel legend" on 13 May 1940, during the Battle of France, when Rommel's troops crossed the Meuse under fire and established bridgeheads at Houx and Dinant.According to Hans-Ulrich Wehler, the original reason that led to Rommel's high reputation in foreign countries was that people in Allied countries heard that he treated the captured soldiers well.Rommel's victories in France were featured in the German press and in the February 1941 film "Sieg im Westen" "(Victory in the West)", in which he personally helped direct a segment reenacting the crossing of the Somme River.