Talk:Deutsches Afrikakorps
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Probably needs a historical narrative, though that might actually belong elsewhere.
Check my facts and figures if you can.
-- B.Bryant
Could a German speaker please translate the "Afrika Korps Marching Song" provided in this article? And, of course, retain the original German. --EmRick
- Got help on initial translation from BigBen212 and others on #wikipedia EmRick 22:12, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The unit names in this article do not conform to the style used in most military history articles, e.g. superscript is not generally used in Wikipedia for military unit names. Is there are a reason why this article should be an exception? Grant65 (Talk) 04:00, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
If songs are going to be mentioned then "Lily Marlen" ought to be. Philip Baird Shearer
Article rename
I think this article needs renaming to its common English name. Philip Baird Shearer
Army Groups
From the List of German military units of World War II#Army Groups (Heeresgruppen) how do these army groups: Army Group Afrika (Heeresgruppe Afrika) and Army Group Tunis (Heeresgruppe Tunis); fit into the command structure? Philip Baird Shearer 14:51, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
More on Army Groups
This article is clear that not all German units in Africa were part of DAK. The most notable of those other units were the Afrika zbV ("special purpose") Division, which was created as an infantry division and slowly upgraded to a fully motorized division, and then redesignated as the 90th Light Afrika Division; the 164th Light Afrika Division. The article on German Panzer Army Afrika however lists these units as subordinate. Anyone have the definitive answer, and can update both pages? Wendell 01:21, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
- Looks like someone cut-n-pasted the whole OB from http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=2057, and then added some indentation that wasn't in the original. At any rate, I have just now finished giving the German Panzer Army Afrika an almost complete re-write, so hopefully our articles are now in agreement. FWIW von Mellenthin's book says the 164th only started showing up at about the time of the El Alamein battles, and was used along the coast to stiffen the Italian infantry while the Panzer Army (including the subordinate Italian XX Motorized Corps) tried to make a swing around the other end of the line. His map also shows the 90th Light supporting the XX Corps rather than the Afrika Corps, and I gather from the rest of the OB that I dug up for the Panzer Army Afrika article that it was an army-level support unit throughout almost the entire campaign. — B.Bryant 05:03, 8 May 2005 (UTC)