I just read on Marseille that despite being a show-off ( at least before Africa ) he wasn´t very keen on talking to interviewers.

On a Finnish book on WW2 pilots there was a part where he kept answering very shortly. Something like this:

The interviewer followed by Marseille´s answer:

- So you are a famous pilot
- Yes, I am.

- Is it hard to fight in Africa?
- Yes, mostly.

- Are the British good fighter pilots?
- Oh yes!

- But you have dropped many enemy planes?!
- I think so.

- The Führer awarded you the Knight´s Cross!
- Yes.

And so on....

Seems like the Propaganda office did not get much on him in the films...

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