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In his book, “Inside Story” Ike later related his experiences, when in the early hours of 20 June 1942 Genl Erwin Rommel and his German Afrika Korps “attacked with Stuka dive-bomber, Mark IV and Mark III tanks, panzers and blistering artillery barrage.” The Allied forces were overrun by the Germans and Ike was captured, along with several thousand Allied and fellow South African soldiers. After their capture by the Germans, Ike and the other South African prisoners-of-war were handed over to the German allies at the time, the Italians, who soon sent them off by ship across the Mediterranean to prison camps in Southern Italy. He relates the terrible suffering of the prisoners at the hands of the Italians, while also having to contend with hunger, thirst and disease.
