These would be the same 'Krauts' who asked 'for a squadron of Spitfires' during the Battle of Britain?
Galland was at pains in later years, certainly in private conversation, to point out that what he was pressing was for his fighters to be be allowed to ACT like "a staffel of Spitfires" .
He was referring to the diktats holding his fighters too close to the bombers that they were escorting.