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Wehrmacht, December 1941

Adolf Hitler

Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces commander South-East)
General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze

Heer

12th Army (Wehrmacht Command South-East)

Armeeoberkommando 12, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List

HQ in Salonika

Area of Responsibility: entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia except Slovenia

65th High Command for special assignments (Höheres Kommando zur besonderen Verwendung LXV), often named 65th Corps - in charge of German occupation area in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia

General der Artillery Paul Bader

HQ in Kragujevac, Belgrade and Sarajevo

  704th Infantry Division - Valjevo (Serbia)
714th Infantry Division - Topola (Serbia)
Generalmajor Friedrich Stahl
717th Infantry Division - Niš (Serbia)
718th Infantry Division - Banja Luka (Bosnia)
Pz.Kp.z.b.V.12
18th Mountain Corps (XVIII Gebirgsarmeekorps) - left Finland at the end of December

Co: General der Gebirgstruppen Franz Boehme.

Commanding all German units in Serbia

From 19 September to 8 December carrying out anti-guerilla operations on territory of Serbia.

  342nd Infantry Division -left for Russian Front in January 1942
113th Infantry Division - left for Russian Front in February 1942
I./Pz.Rgt.202
64th Reserve Police Battalion
1 Battalion? from 202 Armored Battalion?
125th Infantry Regiment
Military Commander Serbia (Militärbefehlshaber Serbien)

Co: General der Gebirgstruppen Franz Boehme until 4 December succeeded by General der Artillery Paul Bader

  Feldkomandantur 559 - Belgrade 562nd Landesschützen Garrison battalion
Feldkomandantur 610 - Pančevo 592nd Landesschützen Garrison battalion
Feldkomandantur 809 - Niš 920th Landesschützen Garrison battalion
Feldkomandantur 816 - Užice 266th Landesschützen Garrison battalion
Landesschützen battalions - guarding railway 447, 823, 923, 924, 925

Luftwaffe

2nd Air Army (Luftflotte 2) -  from 1 December 1941 to 14 August 1943

Luftflottenkommando 2, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

HQ in Rome

Area of Responsibility: Balkans (also Italy and Africa)

Kriegsmarine

Naval command grupe South
(Marinegruppenkommando Süd)

Admiral Karlgeorg Schuster later Kurt Fricke

HQ in Sofia (Bulgaria)

Area of Responsibility (for Yugoslavia): Danube and navigable rivers