Under Erwin Rommel the DAK, supported by Luftwaffe and Naval units, occupied large parts of Libya and Egypt until finally defeated at El Alamein in October 1942.

[1] This was a corps designation badge, not a campaign award, and personnel who permanently transferred out of the North African theatre no longer had the right to wear it.

[3] On 15 January 1943, the Africa cuff title was instituted by Adolf Hitler as a formal campaign decoration.

[1] The cuff title is a 32mm wide mid-brown camel hair band, bearing the word AFRIKA flanked on both sides by an image of a palm tree and edged top and bottom with a 3mm strip, all embroidered in silver-grey braid or cotton.

[6] While many awards were re-designed to remove the swastika, the original cuff title could be worn unaltered as it did not bear this symbol.