Germany invades Poland, starting World War II
… North Africa (May 1941 to November 1942), Madagascar (June to November 1942) and Italy (April 1943 to May 1945) and … to the German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel in June 1942, and at El Alamein in Egypt, where the Afrika Korps … troops were amongst the first to enter Rome, Italy, in June 1944 as part of the offensive against Mussolini in the …