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==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
On 25 March 1941, General Italo Gariboldi formally replaced Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. Graziani had earlier on requested to be relieved of hsi command. In the last week of April, the Italian divisional commanders reviewed the Axis forces assembled at Benghazi with a TIME magazine correspondant reporting that a German officer harrangued the assembled officers and otsher ranks: ''"At the beginning of Italian-German cooperation on African soil, we swear to make the greatest effort for a joint victory for Great Germany and Great Italy. Long live Great Italy! Long live Great Germany!"'' The assembled troops were reported to have answered: ''"We swear it!"''
On 19 July, Gariboldi stepped aside, reportedly because he didn't get along with Rommel.
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.
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]]