Following a meeting in Athens, the British committed to sending an expeditionary force to Greece. Anthony Eden promised more British troops to the Greeks than were really available. To compound matters, the strategy for defense depended upon Yugoslavian territory being unavailable in the case of almost certain German intervention.
Greece had just turned down an offer from the Germans to mediate the armed dispute with Italy. While that's understanding, frankly a better course of action at this point would have been to encourage the Greeks to make peace with Italy, as they had held their own, at great cost, and that would have taken Greece out of the war at this point and spared it a German invasion.
On the same day, British Commonwealth forces took Jilib in Somalia.
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Day 541 February 22, 1941
On this day in 1941 the first German mass arrest of Jews in Amsterdam occurred. The Germans also lowered the already desperately low food rations to Jews in Warsaw. More on those events here:
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