German 202nd Tank Battalion (Pz.Abt.202)
German 172nd Anti-Aircraft (Flak) Battalion
German army battalions in Yugoslavia
1052nd Special Unit (Sonderkommando)
German Security battalions in Yugoslavia
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Wehrmacht, April 1941
Heer
OKH Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch
2nd Army (until it left for East Front, from 6 April to 16 June 1941)
Armeeoberkommando 2, Generaloberst Maximilian von WeichsHQ in Graz, Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade
Area of Responsibility: North-Western part of Yugoslavia to line Drina - Sava - Danube - Tisa, from 12 April to line Prizren - Sofija
11th Army Corps (XI Armeekorps) Generalkommando XI Armeekorps - general Joachim Kortzfleisch
Area of Responsibility: until July 1941 securing occupation of Serbia
14th Armored Army Corps (XIV Panzerarmeekorps) Generalkommando XIV Panzerarmeekorps - Fridolin Sanger und Etterlin
In western Serbia until middle of May
2. Panzerdivision 5. Panzerdivision 8. Panzerdivision 9. Panzerdivision - left for East Front, parts stayed until June 11. Panzerdivision 14. Panzerdivision Military Commander Serbia (Militärbefehlshaber Serbien) - established on 22 April by order of von Brauchitsch from 20 April Co: Luftwaffe General Helmuth Förster
Feldkomandantur FK-599 - Belgrade 562nd Landesschützen Garrison battalion Feldkomandantur FK-610 - PanÄevo 592nd Landesschützen Garrison battalion Feldkomandantur FK-809 - NiÅ¡ 920th Landesschützen Garrison battalion Feldkomandantur FK-816 - Užice 266th Landesschützen Garrison battalion Landesschützen battalions - guarding railway 447, 823, 923, 924, 925 German General in Zagreb (Deutscher General in Agram) - directly responsible to Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, chief of staff OKW. general Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
Feldkommandantur FK-725 - Zagreb Feldkommandantur FK-605 - Slavonski Brod five Landesschützen battalions - under operational command of Heer 12th Army (from 6 April to 31 December 1942) Armeeoberkommando 12, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List
HQ in Samokov, Athens
Area of Responsibility: Until 12 April Banat, Serbia, Kosovo, Sandzak and Macedonia, until 16 June only area South from line Prizren - Sofija, later expanded to entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia except Slovenia
Luftwaffe
4th Air Army (Luftflotte 4) - from 6 April to June 1941 Luftflottenkommando 4, Generaloberst Alexander Löhr
HQ in Wienna
Area of Responsibility: entire Yugoslavia
4th Air Corps (IV Fliegerkorps) - from 6 until 30 April Generalkommando IV Fliegerkorps, general Kurt Pflugbeil
HQ in Arad
Most used in bombing of Belgrade
5th Air Corps (V Fliegerkorps) - from 6 until 30 April Generalkommando V Fliegerkorps, general Robert Greim
HQ in Pecuj
Most used in bombing of Belgrade
8th Air Corps (VIII Nahkampffliegerkorps) - from 6 April until May Generalkommando VIII Nahkampffliegerkorps, general Wolfgang Richthofen
HQ in Sofia
Area of Responsibility: Macedonia, Kosovo and Srbia south of Belgrade
10th Air Corps (X Nahkampffliegerkorps, from 6 to 18 April) Generalkommando X Nahkampffliegerkorps, ?
HQ in Fodja
Area of Responsibility: Dalmatia, Bosna and Herzegovina, Montenegro
17th Air District Command (Luftgaukommando XVII, from 6 April 1941 until May 1945) CO: ?
HQ in Wienna
In charge of entire ground organization of Luftwaffe (airbases, airfields, warehouses, barracks and construction yards) and air defence including early warning service.
Area of Responsibility: in beginning entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia, but already in middle of 1941 decreased to only Slovenian and NDH and from August 1943 only Slovenia. In September same year expand to Istra and Croatia Littoral. From November 1944 again expanded to NDH.
