Rommel had been enormously displeased with Oberleutnant Alfred Tschimpke, a propaganda reporter who had written a book about the 7th Panzer Division that Rommel commanded in France.[7][8] Author David Irving described Berndt as "Burly, wavy-haired and dark-skinned". He "had the lumbering gait of a bear and a physiological oddity--six toes on one foot. (Goebbels had a right club foot.)