RATS OF TOBRUK » rats of tobruk names http://ratsoftobruk.info The Brave Australian Diggers at the Siege of Tobruk Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:40:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 German Propaganda http://ratsoftobruk.info/german-propaganda/ http://ratsoftobruk.info/german-propaganda/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:30:15 +0000 chris http://ratsoftobruk.info/?p=27 The German troops of the Afrika Korps thought of the Australian soldiers as ‘rats’ because of how they fought in battle ‘like cornered rats’ and because they tunneled to provide shelter from bombardment.

Surviving examples of the propaganda used specifically in Tobruk was hard to get and is probably very rare. These are the only examples I could find

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