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The Italian commander, Bergonzolli, escaped and was able to stay just ahead of the Commonwealth forces as they then advanced to Tobruk. Ultimately Bergonzoli became a prisoner in Benghazi after the remnants of the Italian Tenth Army was cut off and defeated at Beda Fomm.
The Italian commander, Bergonzolli, escaped and was able to stay just ahead of the Commonwealth forces as they then advanced to Tobruk. Ultimately Bergonzoli became a prisoner in Benghazi after the remnants of the Italian Tenth Army was cut off and defeated at Beda Fomm.
==Aftermath==
The British Commonwealth victories achieved during Operation Compass received much press coverage in Great Britain and the Allied countries and the victors became known as "Wavell's Thirty Thousand", which was used as the title of a 1942 British documentary chronicling the campaign. The Italians on their part made a movie called "Giararub" in 1942, that honoured the stand Major Castagna and his men had made during the British offensive.
[[Category:War]] [[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:War]] [[Category:World War II]]