When did the nazis invade North Africa?

Answer 1

Hitler/Germany did not invade Greece. Mussolini did. Hitler had been making moves in Checzslovakia and other countries and was not consulting Mussolini. Mussolini wanted to show that he could act on his own. So, he launched an attack on Greece. Italian troops crossed the Albanian border on 28 October, 1940. Hitler was returning from a visit with Franco and learned of the invasion when he arrived at the train station at Florence. When Hitler met with the jubilient Mussolini, he could not speak of the invasion but gave false predictions that Spain would join the Axis alliance. There is a photo of them together on a podium in front of the crowds and Hitler doesn't look happy. As it turned out, Mussolini's troops became bogged down (literally in the muddy mountains) and Hitler did send troops attacked from the North (or right flank) and rescued Mussolini from embarassment.

Answer 2

The Italians under Mussolini actually were the aggressors in Africa. Mussolini dreamed of re-establishing the glory of the Roman Empire, which led him to attempt African conquests, making Libya an Italian colony, and making war with airplanes and armored cars on spear-carrying Ethiopians. But when WWII began in earnest (the Italians were doing all that before the war is generally regarded as having started) the British, from their colony in Egypt, fought the Italians and were defeating them. So Hitler had once again to help out his partner, Mussolini, and sent the Afrika Korps to help with the fight in Africa. The Afrika Korps arrived in Libya in February, 1941, eventually evolved into Panzer Armee Afrika, and was finally completely defeated by May, 1943, along with their bumbling Italian allies.

Answer 3

The Nazis invaded Italy in the 1930s and Italy was screwed!

Answer 4

1940

Answer 5

6 April 1941

Answer 6

April 1941.