After Italy's defeat in the end of 1940, the Afrika Korps arrived in Africa and Erwin Rommel took command of the Axis forces. Meanwhile, the British started moving troops out of North Africa, to counter more urgent threats. Rommel saw the opportunity and he took it, launching an offensive towards the Egyptian border and besieging Tobruk.
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