After losing Cyrenaica, Italy asked for a German intervention, including in February 1941 1st troops of this's visited turn out to be the famous Deutsche Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel completed up being undoubtedly given to North Africa. The troops regarding the Axis in 2 months took back Cyrenaica and Tobruk, and higher level into Egypt. Constantly brief on materials, they was in reality beaten by the 8th British Army at El Alamein. The excess anxiety attributable to the united states arrival in Morocco forced the Afrika Korps to slowly retreat in Tunisia during 1943.