FALL OF TOBRUK TO GERMAN ARMY 1942 AFRIKA KORPS ERWIN ROMMEL BATTLE OF GAZALA 26364

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This silent film was made for the German home market in 1942 by Degeto. It shows the fall of Tobruk, also known as the Battle of Gazala, on June 21, 1942. At :34 an animated situation map shows the general plan of attack. At :51 Erwin Rommel is shown planning with staff and at 1:03 German artillery blasts British positions. At 1:15, June 20, 1942, Panzers make an early morning move against British positions. At 1:40 artillery piece is pulled into action by halftracks and troops advance while artillery pummels British lines. At 2:06 a burning Crusader tank is seen as well as a British mobile anti-aircraft gun. At 2:10 Allied troops surrender en masse. At 2:27 an "American tank" is shown totally destroyed (probably a "Lee" tank or "Churchill"). At 2:50 Rommel is shown surveying wrecked buildings. At 3:15 German flak batteries move in a convoy past more wrecked British armor. At 3;25 German forces direct artillery at elements of the British army that are trying to escape the onslaught. At 3:37 the coast is seen but "no ship reaches the sea"-- German forces are now in a position to lob artillery at any evacuation fleet that arrives. At 3:52 Generalfeldmarschall Kesselring is shown putting on a parachute. German Stukas overfly the port at 4:09. At 4:40 Tobruk has fallen into German hands. The city is partially in ruins. At 5:24 German staff contemplate their next move. The film ends with the "unstoppable" Afrika Korps moving towards Egypt.
The Battle of Gazala was fought west of the port of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. Axis troops of the Panzerarmee Afrika (led by Generaloberst Erwin Rommel) consisted of German and Italian units. Allied forces (Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck) were mainly British, Indian, South African and Free French.
Rommel secretly had the advantage of detailed intelligence against the Allies, from an unwitting breach of communications security by Bonner Fellers, a military attaché at the US embassy in Cairo. Secret data on British "strengths, positions, losses, reinforcements, supply, situation, plans, morale etc" was read by German signals intelligence in Africa within eight hours of their transmission to Washington. This calamitous situation endured from December 1941 until 29 June 1942 (after the fall of Tobruk), when the US Black Code was replaced.
The Axis distracted the British with a decoy attack in the north and made the main attack round the southern flank of the Gazala position. The advance succeeded but the defense of Bir Hakeim by the French garrison at the southern end of the line, left the Axis with a long and vulnerable supply route around the Gazala line. Rommel retired to an area known as the cauldron, a defensive position backing onto British minefields, forming a base in the midst of the British defenses. Italian engineers lifted mines from the west side of the minefields to create a supply route through to the Axis side.
The Eighth Army counter-attack, Operation Aberdeen, was poorly co-ordinated and defeated in detail; many tanks were lost and the Axis were able to regain the initiative. The British withdrew from the Gazala Line and the Axis troops overran Tobruk in a day. Rommel exploited the success by pursuing the British into Egypt. The Eighth Army managed to check the Axis advance at the First Battle of El Alamein.
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