In Germany, Rommel's fame is extremely loud, and Rommel, known as the Eagle of the Reich, is now being made into a movie, and the German people are waiting in a long queue to buy tickets.

After watching the movie "Rommel", all the Germans sighed that the movie was well made, and their admiration for Rommel was even greater.

Movies are much more intuitive than newspapers, and the 7th Panzer Division is now more famous, and this unit that started with Rommel has become a household name and hero.

Those unmarried girls in Germany have written love letters to Rommel, and what happened to Rommel and Anna in Italy has not yet reached Germany, and Rommel is the prince charming in the minds of German girls.

The young people of Germany, who also worship Rommel, are so much devoted to the body that they take Rommel as an example, and they take the initiative to sign up for the army without government mobilization.

The film set off a cult frenzy of Rommel in Germany, which Goebbels did not expect, and Goering also went to see the film "Rommel" himself.

After Goebbels watched this movie, he knew that most of the events in this movie were real, even the tanks and troops were the standard equipment of the Seventh Panzer Division, and the war scenes were really incomparable, just like a battlefield record.

Since Rommel has become so famous, and Rommel has become an invincible imperial hero in the eyes of the German people, it is impossible for Goebbels to suppress it! He can only accept this reality.

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Churchill was urgently transferring troops to Africa, and Churchill gave up even Greece as a strategic point in order to deal with Rommel's German-Italian Afrika Korps. Nearly 100,000 British troops stationed in Greece began to retreat to Crete. And only then retreated from Crete to Africa.

Churchill also from the Middle East. India, Australia, Canada and other colonies sent colonial troops to reinforce Africa, and weapons and equipment purchased from the United States were also continuously shipped to Africa.

Britain has lost the Strait of Gibraltar, and if Britain loses Egypt and the Suez Canal, Britain will no longer have access to the Mediterranean, and all British interests along the Mediterranean will be lost.

If Germany takes Africa again, seize the Suez Canal. Then Germany is likely to change the direction of its attack, and if Germany suddenly stops attacking the Soviet Union and moves its forces to the Middle East, will it rely on the British colonial troops in the Middle East and India?

It was not enough to stuff Germany's teeth, so Churchill had to defend Egypt and protect the Suez Canal.

In this way, Germany could be denied the intention of entering the Middle East and turn their offensive on the Soviet Union, which is why Churchill was desperate to send troops to reinforce Africa.

Before the outbreak of the Greek campaign, the British army in Africa had already attacked the Argeira region more than 100 kilometers from Tunis, in order to hold Greece, the only foothold in Europe. Forced to transfer troops and materials from the Northern Zhou to reinforce Greece.

At this time, the British army in Africa had no way to continue the offensive, and their offensive stopped in the Agai area. This saved the Italian army from complete defeat.

The British government transferred its forces to the Balkans, and they wanted to take advantage of the defeat of the Italian army in Greece to establish a strategic offensive base in Greece, but this was tantamount to pressing a bayonet on the belly of Germany.

How could Germany have allowed Churchill to get his wish! Churchill was really whimsical, and Germany absolutely strangled this threat in the cradle before attacking the Soviet Union.

From a short-term strategic point of view, Britain was beaten all over the head by Germany in Greece, and Britain not only failed to completely defeat Italy in Africa, but also led German troops to Africa.

However, judging from the outcome of history, Britain held back Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in the Balkans, allowing Germany to delay its attack on the Soviet Union for three months.

The best time to attack the Soviet Union was in March, when the snow had melted and the Germans had almost nine months to attack.

Historically, but historically, because Germany was delayed for three months because of the Greek campaign, Germany did not begin to attack the Soviet Union until late June, and as a result, Germany had just hit the city of Moscow, and it was already early November, and the Soviet Union began to snow, and the temperature plummeted to minus 40 degrees.

With such annoying weather, German tanks could not be started at all, the bolts of the soldiers' guns were frozen, all the trucks could not move, and the bitter cold of the USSR, after Napoleon, once again saved the USSR.

The United States and Britain immediately increased their aid to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union also took advantage of the winter to rearm itself, and the German army was caught in the quagmire of war with the Soviet Union and could not get out.

"If you lose your horse, you don't know if it's a blessing."

Britain's stinky moves in Africa and Greece unwittingly changed the tide of World War II, and Germany's seemingly resounding victory in the Greek campaign actually laid the groundwork for its own defeat.

But there is a way to crack the foreshadowing of this defeat, that is, Hitler gave up attacking the Soviet Union, turned his forces to the Middle East, and then went directly to India, where Germany was still short of resources!

But Hitler had a soft spot for attacking the Soviet Union, and no one could change Hitler's decision, and this was the harm of the dictator, and once the dictator's decision was wrong, it could not be corrected at all.

Now that the German army is about to land in Africa, not to mention the famous General Rommel, the British army in Africa cannot wipe out more than 300,000 Italian troops in a few days.

Churchill was worthy of being a hero, and he immediately gave Wavell, the commander of the Nile Army, to Wavell to retreat to the Merscha Pass with the British troops in North Africa. (Army Group Nile was the predecessor of the Eighth Army)

The Mersa Pass was a very important pass in ancient times, with Subbit Bay on its left and the strange rocky mountains on its right, which were impossible for vehicles to pass through, and beyond the mountains was the desert.

As long as the British army held here, the German army could not enter Libya at all, but it is unknown whether this ancient pass could block Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, anyway, the British army arranged a division and an armored brigade here.

It is said that after Rommel took the island of Malta, he received an order from Hitler to report back to Berlin.

Rommel was so speechless that he had to let several of his brothers organize a landing ****** while he flew to Berlin to meet Hitler.

Hitler personally met with Rommel, awarded him the Iron Cross with oak leaves, and promoted Rommel to general of the Panzer Corps.

This is four months ahead of history, Rommel is finally a general, although the general of the armored corps is half a rank lower than the army general, but he is not a general.

In this debriefing, Rommel first talked about his strategy in Africa, but Hitler did not attach importance to the African battlefield at all, and he did not listen to Rommel's debriefing at all, so he said:

"General Rommel, you are the Eagle of the Empire, and it is all Mussolini's request to put you in the place where birds in Africa do not lay eggs, in fact, the Eastern Front is where you can display your talent for war."

…… (To be continued.) )