الفيلق الأفريقي
Initially, the Afrika Korps gained a reputation by the Allies and by many historians as being clean. Many historians have used the term "war without hate" to describe the North African Campaign as a whole. However, newer research has shown that there is much evidence of the Afrika Korps being involved in war crimes. The Afrika Korps was used as an essential part of the wider Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht which sought to integrate German war criminals back into post-war West German society.