As a division supply officer with the German Afrika Korps for Rommel's tanks in the desert, the author served for 20 months in Africa as a major in the General Staff with the 15th Panzer Division under Rommel's command. He documented his experiences as the responsible general staff officer for the supply of fuel, ammunition, spare parts, food, water, etc., in a letter diary that is being published for the first time. His records cover the period from April 1941 to December 1942: from the departure in Landau/Pfalz via Naples to Tripoli and from there to the front at Agedabia, through the varied battles in North Africa (Benghazi, Tobruk, Halfaya Pass, Marsa Matruk, etc.) to the battles of El Alamein and the retreat of the defeated Afrika Korps. With intense descriptions of the landscape, personal impressions and thoughts, military and political situations.