Rommel's Deutsches Afrika Korps 1941-1943

Plot against Hitler              178

Rommel's death              180

Erwin Rommel as Tactician              182

Popular perception              184

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Panzer Tactics              185

Development of German Armor Tactics              188

The First Three Panzerdivisionen              190

First Experience in War              192

Armored Battle Groups or Kampfgruppen              192

Panzerbrigade 1944              193

Reorganization after Second World War              193

Maps              195

Deutsches Afrika Korps 1941-43              202

Bibliography              209

Index              211

Notes              212 Notes

[1] General Feldmarshall Erwin Rommel

[2] Sir Archibald Wavell

[3] Panzerkampfwagen III

[4] Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf C 5° Leichte Division/5° Panzerregiment/I Battalion/2° Company

[5] Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf D 5° Leichte Division/5° Panzerregiment/II Battalion/8° Company

[6] OKH: Oberkommando des Heeres

[7] A 105mm howitzer in action against Tobruk.

[8] Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf F 15° Panzer Division/Panzerregiment 8°/I Battalion/2° Company

[9] Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J 15° Division Panzer/Panzerregiment 8°/I Battalion/2° Company

[10] General Sir Alan Cu

[11] A British machine gun Bren on an anti-aircraft mounting in Tobruk

[12] British tank Valentine of 23° Armoured Brigade knocked in Ruweisat Ridge.

[13] South African troops in infantry positions along the Gazala Line watch from their trench as a neraby position comes to attack.

[14] General Ludwig Crüewell

[15] Eight Army officers. From left to right: Lt General Norrie (XXX Corps), Lt. General Ritchie (Eight Army) and Lt. General Gott (XIII Corps).

[16] British Bren carriers of the 9° Rifle Brigade watch the destruction of a supply dump from a distance during retreat from the Gazala Line

[17] Eight Army withdrawal and Rommel attack on Tobruk

[18] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger 111 Panzer Abteinlung 501° in the desert North Africa

[19] German Intelligence Service

[20] Tiger used by the commander of the 1st Platoon of the 1st Company of s.Pz.Abt. 501°.

[21] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I No 131 captured in Jebel Jaffa 21 April 1943

[22] Schwerer Panzerspähwagen (7.5cm) 10° Panzer Division/10° Motorcycle Battalion/5° Heavy Company

[23] 7.5cm Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausf F/8 10° Panzer Division/I Battalion/Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 242°

[24] Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I s.Pz.Abt 504°, tank number 142

[25] Albert, Kesselring, Wilhelm Speidel, Herma

[26] Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf J 3rd Platoon, 1st Company, s.Pz.Abt 504°

[27] 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schepper 21° Panzer Division/115° Artillery Regiment/3rd Battalion

[28] Leichter Gepanzerter Beobachtungskraftwagen 21° Panzer Division/115° Artillery Regiment

[29] Feldmarshal Erwin Rommel in Africa

[30] A memorial at the site of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's suicide outside of the town of Herrlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (west of Ulm).

[31] Erwin Rommel December 1943

[32] Panzerkampfwagen IV

[33] General der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian