More than a military campaign ended last week on hilly Cap Bon. Adolf Hitler's "Plan-Süd" (Southern Plan) for an African-Middle Eastern Empire also collapsed, and with it Italy's hopes of empire.
The Italians began this spectacular phase with their conquest of Ethiopia in 1935-36, continued it with their abortive drive from Libya into Egypt in 1940, surrendered the center of the North African stage to the Germans when Rommel arrived with his Afrika Korps in the spring of 1941. Other high points in the record:
>Although the Axis finally lost North Africa, the...
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