I was listening to NPR yesterday...

[TheMightyFavog]

And Calling All Pets was on. There was a caller on who said she had a cat named General Rommel?

Rommel? Who the fuck names a cat after a fracking Nazi?

If I was going to name your cat after a figure from WWII, I'd go with something like Monty, DeGaulle, Ike, Clark, Omar Bradley, or Patton. (If I wanted to take the last one a little father and invoke an obscure early 90s cartoon, I'd go with General Catton.)

[DFW]

1. Maybe because Rommel was part of the April 20th plot?

Rommel was part of the Wolfsschantz plot to assassinate Hitler, and paid for it with his life as
a "traitor" to Nazi Germany. He may have been a traitor to the Nazis, but that's why he isn't
held in such bad regard by some.

[vadawg]

2. mayby because the feline general is always in the sandbox

speaking as a child who grew up surrounded by men who fought rommel, they all thought he was the best general of all time and deserved his name of the desert fox, all you heard was admiration of him to a man.

[Bertha Venation]

3. I had a cat named Richard Nixon

It had nothing to do with Nixon himself. I got the kitten about the same time Nixon died, and Richard just kinda fit him. His littermate is Harry Truman.

I guess Rommel is worse.