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Back Home. When war came, Bennie Hermer had joined the South African forces and had been sent to the Middle East. In June 1942 he was captured at Tobruk. He was taken to Benghasi to assist Italians and Germans in hospital work. He wrote to Olda all the time. She received two letters, one from the prisoners' camp in Libya, the other marked "War Prison inf Italy...
...Allied invasion of southern Europe is not only imminent but highly desirable, Smuts needs to extend the area where his troops can operate. So he last week called for parliamentary reform of South Africa's 1912 Defense Act. On the wave of patriotism following the recapture of Tobruk, Smuts cried that South Africans must now rescue 12,000 of their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde...
...report what he learned during his five months with the Russian armies. He stopped over in Egypt to bring home with him the first-hand feel of the fighting-got a very authentic six-days' sample bouncing across the desert with the British troops all the way past Tobruk-dodging Nazi bombs with them and sharing their bully beef and the dusty taste of victory. In contrast, he flew back to Cairo in six hours in a British bomber whose crew fed him chicken and ham pie and fresh fruit...
...last day we saw the ruins of Tobruk. The main church is badly damaged but three bells in the tower still ring. Every Tommy who enters yanks the ropes...
Montgomery's pursuing troops swept into Tobruk, where Imperial troops in 1941 held Rommel off for eight months. Montgomery pushed on. A German news agency reported that Rommel in shirt and shorts, minus his coat and his favorite grey-&-white striped scarf, fled from a field headquarters just in time to avoid capture by British tanks. Arriving at a new base, he cracked (according to Nazi propaganda): "Like Napoleon I lost my equipment but there won't be any Waterloo...