On 31 January 1927, the officers and men of the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission left Germany, seven years after the start of disarmament operations. Thrown into the cauldron of post-war chaos with a complex mission to disarm a twentieth-century power, the IAMCC experienced mixed results, with periods of incredible progress toward the degradation of German military strength intertwined with longer periods of frustrating inactivity. Although the IAMCC did not disarm Germany to all the levels stipulated by the Treaty of Versailles, it successfully accomplished its major tasks of eradicating German armaments, reducing the Reichswehr to 100,000 men, and destroying the bulk of German fortifications. The officers responsible for disarmament operations – Nollet, Bingham, Barthélemy, Morgan, Wauchope, and Walch – disappeared from Germany along with the organization that had consumed them over the last number of years.1 The only task that remained was the production of the final report of the IAMCC. Yet one factor common to both the initiation and withdrawal of the IAMCC was the element of uncertainty over the future course of German disarmament. In fact, in 1927 the Allies faced some of the same problems that the IAMCC faced in 1920. The organization of the German police and existence of paramilitary organizations remained in suspense while new problems, such as the construction of forts in eastern Germany and the continued use of military establishments, were now the responsibility of the untested League of Nations and the embryonic Allied technical experts. The Allies had passed on the torch of disarmament but it was evident to all that the flickering flame was burning out.