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Tender love letters reveal Rommel's romantic side

Adolf Hitler's favorite commander Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" who relentlessly fought allied forces across North Africa in World War Two, was a hopeless romantic, extracts from love letters published in a German newspaper reveal.Full story

Hank Williams Jr.: 'I didn't go to Harvard'

  Country singer Hank Williams Jr. found himself in some hot water recently after comparing the president to Adolf Hitler. And he drops by "The View" to discuss the controversy. And in other water cooler news, President Obama drinks beer with some unemployed construction workers.

ESPN yanks Williams Jr.'s MNF theme

  ESPN pulls Hank Williams Jr.'s theme song from its "Monday Night Football" broadcast in a rebuke to the country music singer for comments comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Msnbc's Craig Melvin reports.

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