The German Fifth Panzer Army was created in December of 1942 to help manage the emergency build-up of troops in Tunisia after the Allied Operation Torch landings in Algeria and Morocco. The army fought alongside the Italian First Army under the management of Army Group Afrika, and surrendered with the collapse of the Axis defense in May of 1943. Operation Torch (from November 8, 1942) was the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign. ... The Italian First Army was an Italian field army of World War II that fought on the North African Front. ... Army Group Afrika (German: Heeresgruppe Afrika) was the headquarters controlling all Axis forces in Tunisia during the final stages of the North African Campaign of World War II. It was created in February of 1943 by redesignating Erwin Rommels German-Italian Panzer Army headquarters as an Army Group and...

A new Fifth Panzer Army was established in 1944 for use in France, and surrendered in the Ruhr Pocket in April 1945. The Ruhr Pocket was an area of Germany formed in April of 1945 during World War II. It was the result of the U.S. Army trapping numerous Wehrmacht forces in the Ruhr industrial region. ...

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