Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany's Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was advancing in Libya. Fresh German troops were reported on the borders of Turkey and in southern Italy, across the narrowest expanse of Mediterranean from North Africa. On the diplomatic front Vichy moved closer to Germany. On the propaganda front Berlin proclaimed India independent. On the political front Egypt got a nationalistic Government. Despite these signs, strategists said that Germany had no time to launch an offensive against Suez before June brought the need for a fresh assault on Russia...
...same Berlin broadcast that told of the fall of Bengasi last week carried another piece of news. For his work in Libya, Adolf Hitler had upped tough Tank Expert General Erwin Rommel to the grade of Field Marshal, Second Class...
...Erwin Rommel, Axis commander, appeared to be pausing for reorganization and perhaps new supplies from rear bases before attempting to take Tobruk and drive the British back the remaining 100-odd miles to the Egyptian border...
...clue to Rommel's action could be found in the British statement several weeks ago that three out of five ships from Axis convoys trying to reach Libya were being sunk. The other two ships, bringing supplies, weapons and men, had given Erwin Rommel strength enough to strike back at the British...
...high-water mark of the previous British advance across the desert&151;Erwin Rommel was in a perfect tactical spot. He held a shore position flanked on one side by the sea, on the other by nearly impassable salt marshes. When he sallied out last week his first thrust was tentative&151;only ten miles. Then he turned on more power. North along the seacoast rumbled his well-trained columns&151;tanks, ugly but efficient troop carriers, skittering little "People's Cars" used as staff cars...