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...Italians began this spectacular phase with their conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36, continued it with their abortive drive from Libya into Egypt in 1940, surrendered the center of the North African stage to the Germans when Rommel arrived with his Afrika Korps in the spring of 1941. Other high points in the record...
...Although the Axis finally lost North Africa, the North African campaign as a whole gained the Germans a great deal. Rommel's performance with the relatively small Afrika Korps (never more than four German divisions) ranks among the brilliant gambles of history. With the Italians, he all but closed the Mediterranean to Allied shipping, forced the costly extension of Allied supply lines, for two critical years pinned down a large proportion of Britain's effective military strength, to that extent delayed any possible invasion of the Continent when Russia was in its direst straits...
Germany and Italy lost many valuable officers. The Germans said last week that Field Marshal Rommel, who trained and commanded the Afrika Korps, left Africa last March for medical treatment, is still in Germany. Latest count last week of captured generals was 27, including Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who was flown to Britain (see cut), and Italy's Marshal Giovanni Messe...
Fear & Horror. No propaganda build-up such as preceded the defeat at Stalingrad had conditioned the German people for the disaster in North Africa. According to a Swedish report, 55 troops dispersed crowds demanding word of relatives in the Afrika Korps. The Berlin communiqués were significant enough in their belated admissions and excuses. German families haunted short-wave radio sets to pick up the details from London and Sweden...
After the fall of Tunis, only the justly famous 90th Light Infantry Division and the 164th Panzer Grenadiers continued to fight in the manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrender-but only to their old enemy, the Eighth Army. The First Army, then pressing the 90th, turned this proposal down, and fighting continued as the 90th fought southward toward the Eighth. In the end, the 90th's commander, General Count von Sponeck, surrendered to Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg, commander of the Eighth Army...