The last German troops returned to the northern air base of Wunstorf on Friday, after evacuating more than 5,300 people from 45 nations out of Kabul airport over the past 11 days.
Three military aircraft landed on the base, greeted by fire engines spraying fountains of water for the planes to pass through as a welcome ceremony.
"You have seen the outrageous and achieved incredible things," said German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who had welcomed the troops at their stop-over in the Uzbek capital Tashkent and travelled back with them. But around 300 German citizens remain in the country, according to the foreign office in Berlin - besides an unknown number of former Afghan staff and their families, with a support network founded by German troops"It is extremely painful knowing that, in the limited time we had, we have not succeeded and could not succeed in evacuating all those who have worked for or with Germany in Afghanistan," said the head of the joint operations command in Potsdam, Lieutenant-General Erich...
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