And yes, as if they had the spare men to deploy, the Germans send. . .

3,000 men in support of the Georgia to the Caucasus.  Even more amazing, the goal was to help Georgia prevent the Ottomans, a German ally, from gaining control of oil in the Baku region.

Kress von Kressenstein, their commander.

The mostly Bavarian force would end up being the last German force to return to Germany after the war ended, making it back to Germany in April 1919.

Perhaps, in context, this made sense.  After all, oil was important and this was a small number of men.  But it does demonstrate that the Germans were not able to fully disengage in the East.  Additionally, it shows how complicated things had become in the East, as the Germans were now openly aiding a country that the Ottomans had been at war with just days prior when the Ottomans had been a German ally.