When the war ended areas in northern Italy still Mark Clark’s 5th Army was a mish mosh compared to Kesselring’s. Clark had everyone in that Army, Moroccans, Brazilians, etc.a mix of the world’s little nations that wanted a piece of the action. I think we had something like 51 allies in that war. I would think with all those languages, there would be some problems getting one’s points across. The Germans had crack troops in Italy, they weren’t Ost Truppen. They had paratroopers who were well equipped along with veteran units from the east front. Kesselring, saved his troops, he also surrendered them knowing the war was over, before May 7th.
I really admire the Axis commanders who went to great lengths to bring their troops from the Eastern Front far enough to the West to surrender to Brits and Americans; while there has been some griping about their treatment, for the most part they were OK and would survive. On the other hand, of the 200K Axis troops that surrendered at Stalingrad, only 5k were ever seen again by their families.