"Only nine weeks after Hitler brought Rommel home from North Africa, his replacement, Colonel General Juergen von Arnim, was forced to surrender to the Allies. As Rommel had predicted, Africa was, at this point, unwinnable for the Germans. Over 100,000 German soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, and Italy, now open to invasion, would fall in 1943.[118] Historian Samuel Mitcham Jr. claims that Hitler told Rommel he had made a mistake, and "should have listened"