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I've got an excuse for Australian and New Zealand troops in Europe on my website, I'll repost it here;

ANZaSPN
Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific Nations UN Force
A stranded UN composite unit in Germany, suitable for Southern Pacific characters.

Deteriorating world conditions due to the general European engagement made it very difficult for the various Australasian UN contingents to continue their missions. Supply routes often passed through war zones and disengagement agreements were increasingly ignored as a slide to world war accelerated. Urgent meetings with UN officials and various Australasian states took place 1996 in effect pleading for troops to stay on the ground as US forces, for so long shouldering the lions share of peacekeeping, were increasingly recalled for NATO duties.
The situation was only made worse when Turkey invaded Cypress in 1997, all Australasian UN troops were pulled out and sent to a temporary facility at Heidelberg, Germany. Ostensibly, this move was only until the official approval could be sought through worsening global communications from France, until then unengaged and still largely intact, for a transfer across the border and out of Europe using a French port as air transport was no longer a possibility. Living on what was in fact American largesse in a hard pressed country, all of the “Australian, New Zealand and Southern Pacific Nations” troops felt a deep need to do something more than just sit in a camp and use up rations, after repeated requests from the various commanders in the base cautious UN approval was given to begin rear area security duties, at the same time Australasian and South Pacific citizens trapped in Europe were directed to the Heidelberg camp for eventual evacuation home.
Many troops were struggling to come to terms with their new role when the French finally settled the question of using French ports by invading the Ruhr valley and in the process encountered the UN ANZaSPN enclave. At first French and UN troops kept a cautious distance, but a nasty incident between a Tongan patrol and a French unit soon had the French troops surging forward as the UN troops fell back as fast as they could. There was particular bitter fighting at Eberbach as rearguard troops sought to slow the French juggernaut. Many UN troops will never forgive the French for what they see as a betrayal, up until a week before the French invasion most UN troops still thought they’d be evacuated through Bordeaux.
During the retreat down highway 50, many of the UN peacekeepers had their first experience of large unit action and unfortunately the casualty figures reflected this. As main force NATO units were diverted from the front to deal with seemingly unstoppable onslaught, ANZaSPN troops were sent to cantonment at Augsberg. Over the next two years the 24th Panzergrenadiers at nearby Nurnburg adopted the strange little UN unit and due to the complete breakdown of international communication in 1999, incorporated them into the 1 German Corps command structure.

Units at the ANZaSPN enclave:

Australia.
UNTSO, from Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
12 unarmed observers.
ONUC, from the Congo:
An army medical team, tropical-medicine doctor, surgeon and medical orderly.
UNFICYP, from Cypress.
20 Federal Police
UNPROFOR, from Herzogovenia,
A Brigadier, elements of 1st of the 15th New South Wales Lancers, 10th Light Horse, the Royal Australia Regiment, the Royal Victorian Regiment, Special Air Services and various support services (Signals etc.)
UNSCOM, from Iraq,
12 Chemical/Biological warfare experts, 9 officers of the Australian Intelligence Corps.
UNDP, from Mozambique,
2 Deminers from the Royal Australian Engineers.
MFO, from Israel and Egypt,
A Major-General, 27 troops from various units.

In addition, approximately 2500 Australian nationals caught holidaying, involved in overseas work or consular staff and security are incorporated into the Enclave, many have joined the unit and provide a pool of manpower available to the Enclave command structure.

Wow, that's about eight years old. I have to get in there and fix up the appalling grammar.