Well, even in the lower levels the Italians did not have good officers... In the Africa corps, by example, when an Italian colonel was killed, by example. Rommel replaced the fallen officer not with an Italian major or liuetenant colonel, but with a German lieutenant or captain. And inmediately, the Italian forces became as efective as the German...

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