In Berlin Frobenius presented the mission as a success, claiming to have made important contacts in the area and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. The failure seems to have caused no harm to his political or scientific standing in Germany. Frobenius proposed that he be dispatched immediately to lead a second expedition with the same aims. This request was denied and he was instead appointed to command a prisoner of war camp housing captured African and Indian soldiers. Frobenius spent the rest of the war consolidating his research from previous expeditions and cataloguing artefacts from his collection. His scientific output from the seventh expedition was lower than his previous expeditions. Fewer than 100 photographs were taken in Eritrea and only one paper, a study of local architecture published. His other expeditions had produced thousands of photographs and provided the basis for more than fifty books.
