"ACCORDING TO PLAN"
GERMAN REPORT ON THE
RETREAT
LONDON, January 26. Berlin radio, for the first time, admits that Allied operations have caused Rommel's downfall, and states that the British, and American invasion of French North Africa has necessitated using a plan drawn up some time ago to evacuate Tripoli and withdraw the Italian and German forces to the Tunisian frontier, because they could not be supplied along the long land route from Tunis. The Italians and Germans had to build up a defensive line with the concentration of all available forces. Allied . control of Tunis and Bizerta would have constituted a mortal peril for.the Axis tank army, would have opened a. passage throu^ the Straits of Sicily to the
British Fleet, and made it impossible to supply the Axis forces by .sea. The present Axis positions in Tunisia split the Mediterranean into two parts and prevented direct sea communications to the Eighth Army.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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