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Wehrmacht, August 1943

Heer

Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) - from 19 August to 20 September

Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel

HQ in Minhen, Bohum, Verona

Area of Responsibility: Slovenia (without Stajerske and Prekmurja), Istra and Croatian Littoral.

  Command of security troops for area of Army Group B - Corps Group Witthöfft (Kommandierender General der sicherungstruppen in Gebiet der Heeresgruppe B - Korpsgruppe Witthöfft) from 21.07.1943. to 07.09.1943.

General der Infanterie Joachim Witthöfft.

HQ in Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Udine.

Area of Responsibility: Slovenia (without Styria and Prekomurje), Istra and Croatian Littoral

2nd SS Panzer Corps from Eastern front

general Vili Bitrih

  1st SS Panzer Division "Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler"
44th Infantry Division
71st Infantry Division
162nd Infantry Division
1st Tank Regiment from "Herman Georing" division
901st Tank Regiment
 
Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces Commander South-East)
Army Group F (Heeresgruppe F) 
- from 26 August to 27 March 1945

Generalfeldmarschall Maximilian von Weichs

HQ in Belgrade

Area of Responsibility: entire German occupation area without Slovenia, Istra and Croatian Littoral

In command of all Axis troops in Balkans

  2nd Armored Army (2. Panzerarmee)

Panzerarmeeoberkommando 2, Lieutenant-General Lothar Rendulić

HQ in Kragujevac

Area of Responsibility: entire German occupation area without Slovenia, Istra and Croatian Littoral

  15th Mountain Corps

Generalleutnant Rudolf Lüters
(former Croatia Command staff)

114th Jäger Division
369th Infantry Division 'Devil's Division'
373rd Infantry Division 'Tiger Division'
7th SS Mountain Division 'Prinz Eugen'
69th Reserve Corps
Hans Dehner
173th Reserve Infantry Division
187th Reserve Infantry Division
21st Mountain Corps

Paul Bader

100th Jäger Division
118th Jäger Division
297th Infantry Division
 
Military Commander South-East at the same time Military Commander Serbia - Belgrade (formed on 13 August) (Militarbefehlshaber Südost zugleich Militär befehlshaber Serbien)

General der Infanterie Hans Gustav Felber

  117th Jäger Division
Landesschutzen battalions 447, 823, 923, 924, 925
Security battalions three
Feldkomandantur 599 - Belgrade
610 - Čačak
809 - Niš
816 - Å abac
Bulgarian 1st Occupation Corps
Serbian Volunteer Corps
Russian Defence Corps
Pz.Kp.z.b.V.12
 
Military Commander Greece
German General in Bulgaria
Military attache in Bulgaria
 
 

Zagreb FK-725, Slavonski Brod FK-605, Osijek FK-1033, Sarajevo FK-1034, Mostar FK-1035, Karlovac FK-1036, Split FK-1037, Bjelovar FK-1038, Banja Luka FK-1039.

Army Group E (Heeresgruppe E) - until 25 August

Luftwaffe Generaloberst Alexander Loehr

HQ in Salonika

 

Luftwaffe

2nd Air Army (Luftflotte 2) - until 14 August 1943

Luftflottenkommando 2, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring

HQ in Rome

Area of Responsibility: Balkans (also Italy and Africa)

  Air Force Command South-East (Luftwaffenkommando Südost)

CO: general Otto Hoffmann.

HQ in Athens, Salonica, Belgrade, Zagreb

Area of Responsibility: entire German occupation area in Yugoslavia without Slovenia, Istra and Croatian Littoral

  Air Command Croatia (Fliegerführer Kroatien)

Generalleutnant Wolfgang von Chamier-Glisczinski, until 22 August
Generalleutnant Wolfgang Erdmann, from 26 August

HQ at Zagreb (Agram)

  NASt. Kroatien 15 Hs126B-1
3 Do17P-2
15./KG 53 15 Do17Z-2
Stab/Fl.Fü.Kroatien Fi 156

Kriegsmarine

Naval command grupe South
(Marinegruppenkommando Süd)

Admiral Karlgeorg Schuster later Kurt Fricke

HQ in Sofia (Bulgaria)

Area of Responsibility (for Yugoslavia): until 9 September 1943 Danube and navigable rivers, later entire Adriatic sea