 General Claude Auchinleck distributed a directive to his commanders seeking to dispel the notion that Rommel was a "superman".The Battle of Kasserine Pass during the Tunisian Campaign intensified the GIs' admiration towards Rommel.The cult of personality was so strong that, according to Peter Schrijvers, "for the remainder of the war, German POWs would part with pictures of Rommel as reluctantly as GIs were eager to get them".