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    Afrikakorps, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈʔaːfʁikaˌkoːɐ̯] ; DAK), commonly known as Afrika Korps, was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African...
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  • developed a more elaborate command structure and placed the enlarged Afrika Korps, with Italian units under this new Italian and German command and a succession...
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  • Afrika Korps is a board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1964 and re-released in 1965 and 1978 that simulates the North Africa Campaign during World...
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  • Afrika Korps was the German expeditionary force in Africa during World War II. Afrika Korps may also refer to: Afrika Korps (game), a 1964 Avalon Hill...
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    February 1941, Rommel was appointed commander of the new Afrika Korps (Deutsches Afrika Korps; DAK), consisting of the 5th Light Division (later renamed...
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  • Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, released as Afrika Korps vs. Desert Rats outside the UK and U.S., is a real-time tactics game that is based on the North...
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  • Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps is a turn-based computer wargame about tactical battles in World War II. It is part of the Combat Mission series. It focuses...
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    36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Afrika Korps Division (military), Military unit Fliegerführer Afrika North African Campaign Panzer Army Africa...
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    1942, over 18,000 British khaki uniforms were captured; the Panzerarmee Afrika, perennially short of supplies, issued this store of shirts, shorts and...
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    divisions of the Afrika Korps were heading west to Tobruk, with the "Ariete" Division on their left. The audacious manoeuvre by Afrika Korps had failed but...
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    (German and Italian) forces of the Panzer Army Africa—which included the Afrika Korps under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel—and Allied (British Empire and Commonwealth)...
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  • with titles containing Afrika Africa (disambiguation) Afrika Korps, the German expeditionary force in Africa in World War II McAfrika, a former McDonald's...
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    dispatched to defend Greece. Weeks later the first troops of the German Afrika Korps started to arrive in North Africa (February 1941), along with six Italian...
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    attack first. The two armoured divisions of the Afrika Korps and the reconnaissance units of Panzerarmee Afrika led the attack but were repulsed at the Alam...
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    Erwin Rommel 90th Light Afrika Division (Generalmajor Ernst Strecker, later Theodor Graf von Sponeck) Deutsches Afrika Korps Generalleutnant Wilhelm Ritter...
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    German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the Afrika Korps. Nehring was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, West Prussia. Nehring...
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    elements of the Afrika Korps and XX Mobile Corps were attached to these assault groups. During the day, the bulk of the Afrika Korps moved, to give the...
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  • 2000 Combat Mission II: Barbarossa to Berlin 2002 Combat Mission 3: Afrika Korps 2004 These three games are commonly said to belong to the 'CMx1' engine...
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    Italian troops were taken as prisoners of war, including most of the Afrika Korps. The first two years of the war in North Africa were characterized by...
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    a small German force to Tripoli under Directive 22 (11 January). The Afrika Korps (Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel) was formally under Italian command, as...
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    Panzerarmee Afrika (Armata Corazzata Africa in Italian), a German–Italian military force in north Africa which included the Afrika Korps (Generalleutnant...
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    red, white and black (German). Japanese, British 8th Army and German Afrika Korps were produced in limited quantities until production ceased in 1976 and...
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    1892 – 25 September 1958) was a German army general who served in the Afrika Korps of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's...
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    initially served as a staff officer, including with Erwin Rommel in the Afrika Korps. He then commanded the 3rd Panzer Division, the Panzer Lehr Division...
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    forces, led by Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, were primarily from the Afrika Korps Assault Group, the Italian Centauro Armored Division and two Panzer divisions...
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    Greece during World War II awaiting deployment to North Africa, once the Afrika Korps had conquered Egypt and moved into Mandatory Palestine. Einsatzkommandos...
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    Palestine, from the spring of 1942 to November 1942, when the German Afrika Korps under the command of General Erwin Rommel was heading east towards the...
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  • article "The Rommel Myth Debunked" that the Eighth Army beat Rommel's Afrika Korps "fair and square". In 1977, Martin van Creveld started the reevaluation...
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    POWs, most of whom had been captured in Africa and were members of the Afrika Korps. The prisoners at Camp Clinton provided labor to build the Mississippi...
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    expeditionary force to North Africa; at the end of March 1941, Rommel's Afrika Korps launched an offensive which drove back Commonwealth forces. In less than...
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