 The division led by Nehring, is accused by numerous current accounts, of war crimes.Nehring took command of the Afrika Korps in May 1942 and took part in the last major Axis offensive (Operation Brandung) of the Western Desert campaign and the subsequent Battle of Alam Halfa (31 August - 7 September 1942), during which he was wounded in an air raid.Between November and December 1942, he commanded the LXXXX Army Corps, the German contingent in Tunisia.