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    The German Africa Corps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈʔaːfʁikaˌkoːɐ̯] ; DAK), commonly known as Afrika Korps, was the German expeditionary...
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    (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941). The first units of the new Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK), commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, departed Naples...
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  • II when it was one of the two armoured divisions making up the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK). The Italian army group in North Africa was routed by the...
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    and on Malta helped interdict Axis shipping supplying Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps in North Africa. Although it was designed as a torpedo-bomber, the...
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    rushed to Libya to defend Tripoli, by the Italians assisted by the Deutsches Afrikakorps and the Luftwaffe. When war was declared, the 5th Army (General...
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    Afrika Corps - Rations". from Elite Forces of the Third Reich. The Deutsches Afrikakorps Online Archive. Retrieved 1 September 2011. "Medicine: Feeding the...
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    the Luftwaffenring, consisting of Luftwaffe veterans; the Verband Deutsches Afrikakorps, the veterans' association of the Afrika Korps; and, most controversially...
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  • dictionary. DAK is an abbreviation for the Afrika Korps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps), a famed German World War II unit. DAK, Dak or dak may also refer...
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  • Steyr and others. The MG 42 was first deployed in May 1942 by the Deutsches Afrikakorps (German Africa Corps expeditionary force in Africa) and introduced...
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    transported to Libya in April 1941, joining General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) as one of two German tank divisions in North Africa at the...
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    2013 at the Wayback Machine. In: Der Feldzug in Afrika 1941–1943 (deutsches-afrikakorps.de). Retrieved 24 November 2009. Quote: Schuld an dieser Einschätzung...
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    Derna, Barce or Mechili. On 24 March, Rommel advanced with the new Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK). The 3rd Armoured Brigade was south-east of Mersa Brega, where...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80157-0. Rondeau, Benoit (2013). Afrikakorps, L'Armée de Rommel [Afrikakorps, The Army of Rommel] (in French). Paris: Tallandier....
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  • cover!" Compare Tarnung, meaning "concealment" or "camouflage". Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) – German troops sent to North Africa under the command of...
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    Hitler decided to come to the aid of his ally. In February 1941, the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK, German Africa Corps under General Erwin Rommel) was sent to...
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    (see Operation Sonnenblume). Nazi Germany's General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps coming from victories at Tobruk in Libya, and in a classic blitzkrieg...
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  • replaces the Afrika sourcebook. The specific organizations for the Deutsches Afrikakorps and Italian forces in Libya and Egypt have been included. Forces...
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    finding no organised Italian defences. The first troops of the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK), landed in Tripolitania on 11 February, as part of Unternehmen...
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    of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Böttcher served in the Deutsches Afrikakorps under Erwin Rommel where he commanded an artillery regiment. Later...
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  • was married to a United States Navy officer. c. August 30, 1944 – Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) soldier Max Weidauer escaped from Medicine Hat, Alberta, after...
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  • Almásy Military history of Egypt during World War II Afrika Korps (Deutsches Afrikakorps) Abwehr (German intelligence organization) Sudan Defence Force Western...
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  • This was the deployment of the newly formed German "Afrika Korps" (Deutsches Afrikakorps) as reinforcements to the Italians to prevent total collapse. The...
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    Leader Africa) in response to Hitler's decision to established the Deutsches Afrikakorps (German Africa Corps) on 20 January with General Erwin Rommel commanding...
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    Reach into Arab Lands 2006 page 44 Kaum bekannt ist, dass auch das deutsche Afrikakorps Juden zur Zwangsarbeit heranziehen ließ. Die Judenverfolgung gestaltete...
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    Die Erinnerungen von Günter Halm, dem jüngsten Ritterkreuzträger des Afrikakorps, (A Gunner Resolves A Battle, the memories of Günter Halm, youngest bearer...
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    Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-41057-6. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941-43. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-130-0. Zitiert nach Walther...
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    revolution in Italy. A. Maclehose & co. p. 221. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941–43. Osprey. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85532-130-4. Palmer, Michael A. (2010)...
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    p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8131-6804-3. Showalter 2006, p. 227. Der Weg des Afrikakorps nach El Alamein war trotz mancher Kriegsverbrechen nicht wie jener der...
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    Retrieved 25 January 2020 – via issuu. Spayd, P. A. (2003). Bayerlein: from Afrikakorps to Panzer Lehr: The Life of Rommel's chief-of-staff Generalleutnant Fritz...
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    Panzer uniform, and in dull grey-blue on tan backing for the tropical (Afrikakorps) uniform. A stamped metal pin-on breast eagle was worn with the officers'...
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