General Hans Cramer sent his last message: On the afternoon of General von Arnim, Commander in Chief of the Afrika Korps gave the enemy the capitulation of Army Group and the Afrika Korps. The men of the 90th Panzergrenadier Division (Armored Artillery Regiment 90), accompanied him without knowing that the man later to join the German resistance and joined history.
The same falls seriously wounded and rescued immediately by a hospital car that accompanied the withdrawal. Stauffenberg (Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg), who commanded a retreat.
An English fighter-bomber, dives and reaches the car of Lt. On April 7, 1943, at the end of the fighting, the fate and history records a fact that would try to change the fate of the Second World War. Rommel was already evacuated from the African theater in February 1943, admitted to a hospital in Germany. Then begins the journey back to the Afrika korps, unless it had been allowed to rearrange the Führer behind the lines (the famous order of Hitler - Victory or death) until the surrender of what is left of Rommel's army in Medjez el Bab in May 1943. At the half of 1942, the turning point occurred in the Second Battle of El Alamein, where the fuels of Afrika korps nearly end, and the English starts their offensive. Soldiers of the Afrika Korps maning a MG-34 This restructuring was mainly due to the lease plan signed with the United States, managed tactfully by Churchill, where Field Marshall Montgomery begins to receive many M4 Sherman and all kinds of By this time the British were restructuring their forces in Egypt, aimed against an attack. Starting from Tripoli, the Afrika korps ran the coast of North Africa, defeating the British, through Cyrenaica, Gazala, Tobruk, heading to Egypt, where he intended to take possession of fuel sources that would help Afrika korps to keep their tanks running. There were also eight Italian divisions (of the ten Italian divisions in North Africa), under the command of Rommel in Panzer Army Africa, including two armored divisions, two motorized divisions, three infantry divisions, and the Folgore Parachute Division. Others, such as 164th Light Africa Division, the 999th Light Africa Division, and also the 334th Infantry Division, and Brigade Luftwaffenjäger-1 or Fallschirmjäger-Ramcke (Ramcke Parachute Brigade, named after its commander Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke).
The following has been redefined as the 90th Light Africa Division. Some units have become notable in combat, including the 15th Panzer Division, 21st Panzer Division, a division initially created as an infantry division and slowly upgraded to a fully motorized division. Also, the African front was not the priority of the German High Command, so the Wehrmacht did not make great efforts to meet the needs of this front. Some air refueling was done by the Luftwaffe, but in general inexpressive because it also did not live their best moments. To further complicate the logistics operation, the landing supplies and fuel in Benghazi or Tripoli had to travel long distances in trucks to the front, even though they had conquered Tobruk and Mersa Matruh, more advanced positions. Their Achilles heel was logistics supplies, extremely difficult, as the Italians, responsible for supplying the troops, had to cross the Mediterranean in ships to supply the troops Afrikakorps. Because the characteristics of desert warfare, the advance of large distances, pushing the enemy back to their lines, it was possible, using surprise and concentrated firepower. The central philosophy of Rommel was the attack first, quickly, surprising and disorienting the enemy.
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