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Adolf Hitler sent his army to North Africa starting in February 1941 ( see Operation Sonnenblume ).

Nazi Germany's General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps coming from victories at Tobruk in Libya, and in a classic blitzkrieg, comprehensively outfought British forces.

Within weeks the British had been pushed back into Egypt.