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Wehrmacht, May 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 Weichs

HQ in Graz, Maribor, Zagreb, Belgrade

Area of Responsibility: North-Western part of Yugoslavia to line Prizren - Sofija
  2. Panzerdivision - left for East Front
5. Panzerdivision - left for East Front
8. Panzerdivision
parts of 9. Panzerdivision stayed until June
11. Panzerdivision
14. Panzerdivision
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, Erich Heinemann

HQ in Kragujevac, Belgrade and Sarajevo
  704th Infantry Division - Valjevo (Serbia) 2 Infantry Regiments (3 battalions each)
three-battery artillery battalion
cycle-reconnaissance, engineers, signals companies
714th Infantry Division - Topola (Serbia)
Generalmajor Friedrich Stahl
717th Infantry Division - Niš (Serbia)
718th Infantry Division - Banja Luka (Bosnia)
Military Commander Serbia (Militärbefehlshaber Serbien)

Co: Luftwaffe General Helmuth Förster
  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
12th Army (from 6 April to 31 December 1942)
Armeeoberkommando 12, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List

HQ in Samokov, Athens

Area of Responsibility: area South from line Prizren - Sofija, on 16 June expanded to entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia except Slovenia

Luftwaffe
4th Air Army (Luftflotte 4, from 6 April to June 1941)

Luftflottenkommando 4, Aleksandar Lohr

HQ in ?

Area of Responsibility: entire Yugoslavia