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Wehrmacht, October 1941

Adolf Hitler

Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces commander South-East)
Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List
From October 25th, General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze is replacing List because of illness.

Heer

12th Army (Wehrmacht Command South-East)
Armeeoberkommando 12, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List

HQ in Athens, moved to Salonika on 27 October

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)

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
113th Infantry Division - arrived from Russian Front in November
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

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

Luftwaffe

Balkan Area Command (Befehlshaber im Luftgau Balkan, from June 1941 to 31 December 1942)

CO:?

HQ in Athens

Area of Responsibility: including German occupation are in Yugoslavia without Slovenia

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