Word: rgen
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...probably saved some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with an estimated 70,000 troops of Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently succeeded Nehring. The knot of Axis strength will be hard to unravel, especially with Montgomery's old enemy in the middle of it. Rommel remains a wily tactician. It may be a knot that will tie the Allies up so long that operations against southern...
Berlin disclosed that General Walther Nehring, the Axis commander in Tunisia, had been succeeded by a 52-year-old Panzer officer, Colonel General Jürgen von Arnim, who recently led one of Field Marshal Rommel's tank divisions...