 In early 1941, after Operation Compass, the big British and Commonwealth victory in Egypt and Cyrenaica, the best-equipped units in XIII Corps went to Greece as part of Operation Lustre.Adolf Hitler responded to the Italian disaster with Directive 22 (11 January) ordering "Unternehmen Sonnenblume" (Operation Sunflower), the deployment of a new (DAK) to Libya, as a barrier detachment ().The DAK had fresh troops with better tanks, equipment and air support than the surviving Italian forces in the ASI.