During world war 2 Germany sent Rommel and an army to Africa to help out the Italians. who really did all the work in Africa? or was it even? was Italy any help at all?
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The Germans were the better fighters by far and once the Germans were present the Italians weren't particularly important. The major battles were between Germany and England.
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Montgomery was frustrated because his soldiers admired and talked about Rommel more than about its own commandment. Rommel was a legend in Africa between German, English and Italian soldiers. Also the british were happy when they met and fought Italians and not Germans in Africa.
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Before Rommel's arrival, British forces spanked and walked all over the Italian army. And for the most part the Italian's had ten to one superiority in men and material. If Italy had been able to be effective in North Africa, Germany would have had one of the best generals in modern history along with 4 to 5 hundred thousand excellent soldiers to place elsewhere. Your answer is Germany.
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The Italian army was absolutely not capable of fighting any kind of war. All they had was manpower. Everything else was absolute rubbish, supposing they had it. The rifles were the worst used in the war. The (few) tanks were laughable and worse that the rifles. The higher officers utterly unreliable. Several high ranking generals and marshalls were decorated for their work - by the Allies after the war! The soldiers were good and able soldiers, especially considering with what they had to fight. (You can't blame a man for running away if you equip him with a feather duster.) Italy was more a handicap than an asset. Without the support of the Afrika Korps, there wouldn't have been a serious war in Africa at all.
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Well I guess one could say the Italians did, considering that running away through the hot desert must be real hard work.. haha Seriously, though, the Italians invaded Ethiopia, then Abyssinia, and Egypt from Libya, although after making little progress the British rallied and routed them, and after that Mussolini thought it would be wise to invade Albania and Greece, deepening Italy's crisis. Hitler saw this and offset his timeline for Barbarossa by one month by diverting troops south to smash Allied troops in the Balkan area. He then dispensed about a Panzer division to North Africa under the command of one Erwin Rommel. Rommel then proceded to rout the British, surround Tobruk, push the British out of Libya and into Egypt, all with the Italians in tow. After Alamein Rommel had to retreat west, and after being halted by Hitler he built a defensive line to halt the British, and when it was cracked near the coast the Germans and Italians were on the retreat again. In this retreat the more highly motorized British captured tens of thousands of poorly motivated and slow-moving foot troops. The Germans then set up in Tunisia where they were beaten by Operation Torch. Then Italy was invaded. After reading that I'd say Germany did more work considering without German interference the Italians would have been in sore shape by 1942.
