Development of Yugoslav Partisans
Belgrade operation - Allied - Order of Battle
Belgrade operation
18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian brigade
Operation ZIETHEN
Wehrmacht, December 1941
Adolf Hitler
Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces commander South-East)
General der Pioniere Walter KuntzeHeer
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 Stahl717th 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
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