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[Star Wars] How was Anakin perceived after the clone wars ended?

Anakin was seen as a war hero during the clone wars but very few people knew he became Darth Vader so I'm curious what the public thought of him. Was he considered a traitor like the rest of the Jedi and killed during Order 66 or did people have a different impression of him?
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iirc Palatine couldn't easily condemn him like he was able to with the other Jedi since, like you said, he pretty much propped him up to be a galactic Captain America. So the narrative he gave was that Anakin died protecting him from the Jedi traitors and was still considered a war hero until the fall of the empire.