We don't have to romanticize him, that's definitely true.
However, it's still really funny that in OTL when Hitler tried to give Lettow-Vorbeck a job as ambassador to the United Kingdom in the 1930's, Lettow-Vorbeck told Hitler to go fuck himself and walked out of his office.
Queue up the saddest war ever in 1991 when Norway is accusing Denmark of illegally slant-drilling, and the United States has to go protect a major oil producer.
In OTL John McAfee was operating on a level where even insane people would question just wtf was going on in his mind.
Wanted for murder in several countries, tried to create a drug-based private militia, had an ongoing obsession about having sex with a whale...
In From the Earth to the Moon, Michael Collins told Neil Armstrong that "If you had any balls, the first thing you should do when you step off the ladder is scream 'OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!" and then immediately cut your mike."
The United States: Acts totally shocked and appalled when the Kinsey Reports reveal how many men have engaged in zoophilia.
The U.K.: Creates an entire genre of jokes about everyone who's ever spent more than 10 minutes alone with a farm animal.