Wehrmacht, October 1942
Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces commander South-East)
Luftwaffe Generaloberst Alexander Loehr
(from 8 August replacing General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze)Heer 12th Army (Wehrmacht Command South-East)
Armeeoberkommando 12, Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm ListHQ in Salonika
Area of Responsibility: entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia except Slovenia
Commanding General in Serbia (Kommandierender General in Serbien) - total of 78.786 soldiers General der Artillery Paul Bader
HQ in ?
Area of Responsibility: Serbia and German occupation zone in NDH
704th Infantry Division - Valjevo (Serbia) 714th Infantry Division - Topola (Serbia)
Generalmajor Friedrich Stahl717th Infantry Division - Niš (Serbia) 718th Infantry Division - Banja Luka (Bosnia) 7th SS Mountain Division 'Prinz Eugen' Generalleutnant Arthur Phleps
2 Mountain Infantry Regiments Mountain Artillery Regiment reconnaissance, engineers, signals battalions company-strength battalion H-38 tanks Fieseler Storch squadron Pz.Kp.z.b.V.12 I./Pz.Rgt.202 Bulgarian 1st Occupation Corps Alarm units 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 Serbian State Guard Serbian Volunteer Command Command of German troops in NDH (Befehlshaber der deutschen Truppen in Kroatien) - total of 174.244 soldiers (including NDH troops) Generalleutnant Rudolf Lüeters
HQ in Slavonski Brod
Area of Responsibility: German occupation zone in NDH
Railway Security Staff Croatia (Deutscher
Eisenbahnsicherungsstab Kroatien) - from NovemberLandesschützen battalions German-Croatia police-battalions Luftwaffe
2nd Air Army (Luftflotte 2) 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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