Following the losing Cyrenaica, Italy asked for a German intervention, as well as in February 1941 1st troops of that which was to end up being the famous Deutsche Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel were sent to North Africa. The troops associated with the Axis in a few months took right back Cyrenaica and Tobruk, and advanced into Egypt. Constantly quick on materials, these people were defeated by the 8th British Army at El Alamein. The excess stress due to the American arrival in Morocco forced the Afrika Korps to gradually retreat in Tunisia during 1943.
