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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...
...take Djebel Berda and the other hills to the south, then for the ist Armored to push through the pass and see what it could do. This would keep the enemy engaged while Montgomery was attacking toward Gabes, and with luck the armor might get through to Rommel's rear...
Five Graves to Cairo (Paramount) is a somewhat belated dispatch from the Hollywood militarists on Rommel's North African campaign. Paramount's stand-in for the Nazi Desert Fox is the bald and brutal veteran, Erich von Stroheim. Pitted against his terrorism is the youthful team of Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. United, the wits of these two turn the entire tide of battle...