Following losing Cyrenaica, Italy asked for a German intervention, including in February 1941 the first troops of that's been to become the famous Deutsche Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel ended up being certainly sent to North Africa. The troops regarding the Axis in two months took straight back Cyrenaica and Tobruk, and advanced level into Egypt. Constantly brief on materials, they was in fact beaten by the 8th British Army at El Alamein. The surplus anxiety attributable to the usa arrival in Morocco forced the Afrika Korps to gradually retreat in Tunisia during 1943.