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catching the British so off balance that instead of their pum-meling the
Germans, Rommel captured El Adem. This enabled him to surround and
isolate Tobruk, which unexpectedly capitulated on the 20th, allowing
enormous quantities of stores to fall into German hands and giving the
daring Panzer leader his opportunity to strike immediately for Suez. It
was aid of this sort that prompted Rommel's intelligence officer to call
Seebohm's Fernmel-deaufklarung Company "a very important factor in
Rommel's victories." The company could also have independently read
the Fellers messages with a furnished copy of the BLACK code to save time
in getting the information to Rommel.
On July 10, the swirling desert warfare brought the Afrika Korps staff
headquarters directly into the path of a British armored thrust. In a
brief, fierce spurt of action, the brilliant Seebohm was killed and most of
his unit wiped out or captured
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