"However, a radio intercept of the German command net reported that a parachute commander had been heard to ask 'Ist Abt in Kloster?' and was answered, 'Ja in Kloster mit Monchen'.
Although plans to deport 150,000 Serbs (including colonists from the interwar period, but also native inhabitants) to the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia were opposed by the German command in Belgrade, the Hungarian occupational regime managed to expel between 25,000 and 60,000 of them, mostly to Serbia.
The German attempts at resisting the advances led to heavy losses on their part, especially at Broodseinde, after which the German command began preparations for a general withdrawal.
The restoration looked to be in good order, complete with German command pennants on the fenders.
It was sent to Franco on the condition that it stay under German command.
One of those, in Kunduz, is to be handed over to German command.
The military disaster implicit in this inefficient structure was made even more likely by deep social cleavages in the German command.
She also vividly recalled the sound of the stomping boots of Austrian soldiers under German command who began storming the town that night.
Mr. Karski was given the uniform of a Ukrainian militiaman working under the German command who had been bribed to take the day off.
Unchallenged Allied control of the skies, the absence of any significant German reserve force in the theatre, and the fatal disruption of German command and control structures had doomed what remained of Germany's ambitions in Africa.
Much more serious was an action that confirmed the inability of the German command to perceive that a minor tactical success could constitute a strategic blunder of the most extreme magnitude.
