{"id":82917,"date":"2023-06-17T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82917"},"modified":"2023-06-16T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T19:43:22","slug":"why-rommel-lost-the-battle-for-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/17\/why-rommel-lost-the-battle-for-north-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rommel Lost the Battle for North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S9FaGJhDDdk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 Jun 2023<\/p>\n<p>The North African campaign of WW2 is one of the most famous ones. The almost mythical story of the British &#8220;Desert Rats&#8221; defeating Erwin Rommel&#8217;s <em>Afrika Korps<\/em>. But why did Rommel lose in North Africa?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nLisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<\/p>\n<p>Barr, Niall &#8220;Rommel in the Desert, 1942&#8221; in Beckett, Ian F.W., <em>Rommel: A Reappraisal<\/em>, (Barnsley: Pen &#038; Sword Books Ltd, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Beckett, Ian F.W., <em>Rommel: A Reappraisal<\/em>, (Barnsley: Pen &#038; Sword Books Ltd, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Cernuschi, Enrico &#038; O\u2019Hara, Vincent P., &#8220;THE OTHER ULTRA: Signal Intelligence and the Battle to Supply Rommel&#8217;s Attack toward Suez&#8221;, <em>Naval War College Review<\/em>, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer 2013)<\/p>\n<p>R.I. Cunningham, &#8220;Turning Point &#8211; 3rd July 1942: An Eye-Witness Account&#8221;, <em>Military History Journal<\/em>, Volume 6, Number 5, (1985)<\/p>\n<p>Kitchen, Martin, <em>Rommel&#8217;s Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943<\/em>, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Klein, Hans, &#8220;Hans Klein Recalls His Time in Erwin Rommel&#8217;s <em>Afrika Korps<\/em>&#8220;, <em>History Net<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEQtd2xxTXl1dVNEN25WWWlmVW9IQVhEcnV4d3xBQ3Jtc0tsRDNWUlFxTWlzRjBEbXo2a0J1d0lZY2poOHp1bEdia1R2aDgtQVRWRkRqMThBYTJGMjlxZEUwc3lDU0hCZmFhSXdUMlNqQVF2WUZ1MGNSNHhpeFlLQWgtTDdnS0N5eTJDSGxDWm55SFlRZ1dqRmlnZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historynet.com%2Fhans-klein-recalls-his-time-in-erwin-rommels-afrika-korps%2F&#038;v=S9FaGJhDDdk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/hans-klein&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Lewin, Ronald, <em>Rommel as Military Commander<\/em>, (New York: Barnes &#038; Noble Books, 1968)<\/p>\n<p>Nickerson, Hoffman, &#8220;Portrait of a German General: Rommel&#8217;s Papers Reveal a Great Tactician and Strategist&#8221;, <em>Ordnance<\/em>, Vol. 38, No. 200 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1953)<\/p>\n<p>Roy, Kaushik, <em>Fighting Rommel: The British Imperial Army in North Africa during the Second World War, 1941\u20131943<\/em>, (London : Routledge India, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Sadkovich, James J., &#8220;Of Myths and Men: Rommel and the Italians in North Africa, 1940-1942&#8221;, <em>The International History Review<\/em>, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1991)<\/p>\n<p>Scianna, Bastian Matteo, &#8220;Rommel Almighty? Italian Assessments of the &#8216;Desert Fox&#8217; during and after the Second World War&#8221;, <em>The Journal of Military History<\/em>, Vol. 82, No. 1, (2018)<\/p>\n<p>Watson, Bruce Allen, <em>Exit Rommel: The Tunisian Campaign, 1942-1943<\/em>, (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Above Zero<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig, Jesse Alexander<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time History Published 16 Jun 2023 The North African campaign of WW2 is one of the most famous ones. 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