After lack of Cyrenaica, Italy asked for a German intervention, plus in February 1941 1st troops for the thing that has been to get to become the famous Deutsche Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel have been delivered to North Africa. The troops the Axis in a couple of months took back Cyrenaica and Tobruk, and more impressive range into Egypt. Constantly brief on supplies, they were beaten by the 8th British Army at El Alamein. The additional stress as a result of united states arrival in Morocco forced the Afrika Korps to gradually retreat in Tunisia during 1943.