Rommel arrives in Africa

12th February 1941: The dynamic Wehrmacht General arrives in Italian Libya and immediately decides that he must take the initiative

Rommel arrived in Tripoli, Libya, on 12th February and was supposed to be subordinate to General Gariboldi (on the right of Rommel, centre), who had just replaced General Graziani as Italian commander in Libya.

Hitler had now decided that he had to provide his main ally, Mussolini, with military support, before there were political repercussions in Italy…