Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan tsakiyar 1942, tare da haɓaka ƙarfin makamai, da kuma lalacewar gada ta Gorgopotamos (Operation "Harling") ta hanyar ƙarfin 'yan tawayen Girka da' yan sabo na Burtaniya a ranar 25 ga Nuwamba, hukumomin Italiya sun yi ƙoƙari su hana tashin hankali a cikin ayyukan juriya da aka yi wa sojojin su. 'Yan bindigar sun yi nasara sosai a kan' yan Italiya, suna ba da damar ƙirƙirar yankuna "masu 'yanci" a cikin tsaunukan tsaunuka, gami da manyan garuruwa, a tsakiyar shekarar 1943. A lokacin, sojojin Jamus suka soma shigowa ƙasar Hellas. An shigo da fitattun ƙungiyoyi irin su 1st Panzer Division da 1st Mountain Division a cikin ƙasar, duka biyun suna tsammanin yiwuwar saukar Allied a Girka (wani ra'ayi da Allies da kansu suka inganta da gangan a matsayin karkatarwa daga saukowa a Sicily
) kuma a matsayin garanti kan yiwuwar Italiya ta mika wuya.