Development of Yugoslav Partisans
Belgrade operation - Allied - Order of Battle
Belgrade operation
18th (Croatian) Eastern Bosnian brigade
Operation ZIETHEN
German army
November 1943
Army Group C (Heeresgruppe C)
Field-Marshal A. Kesselring and general Heinrich Scheel von Vietinghoff
HQ in Verona
Area of Responsibility: Slovenia (without Stajerske, Gorenje and Prekmurja), Istra and Croatian Littoral.
Whermachtbefehlshaber im Südosten
(Armed Forces Commander South-East)
Army Group F (Heeresgruppe F)
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) - Lieutenant-General Lothar Rendulić, Kragujevac, from , Vrnjačka Banja
- 15th Mountain Corps - Generalleutnant Rudolf Lüters
- 114th Jäger Division
- 264th Infantry Division - arrived in November
- 369th Infantry Division 'Devil's Division'
- 373rd Infantry Division 'Tiger Division'
- 392rd Infantry Division 'Blue Division' - formed on 17 August
- 7th SS Mountain Division 'Prinz Eugen'
- 69th Reserve Corps - Julius Ringel
- 173th Reserve Infantry Division
- 187th Reserve Infantry Division
- 1st Cossak Division - from October
- 21st Mountain Corps - Gustav Fehn
- 100th Jäger Division
- 118th Jäger Division
- 297th Infantry Division
- III (Germanic) SS Armored Corps
- "Nordland"
- "Nederland"
- 202nd Tank Battalion
- V SS-Mountain Corps HQ - arrived in November
- 181st Infantry Division
- 264th Infantry Division
- 367th Infantry Division
- 371st Infantry Division
- Military Commander South-East at the same time Military Commander Serbia - Belgrade (Militarbefehlshaber Südost zugleich Militär befehlshaber Serbien) - General der Infanterie Hans Gustav Felber
- 117th Jäger Division
- Landesschützen battalions 447, 823, 923, 924, 925
- Bulgarian 1st Occupation Corps
- Army Group E (Heeresgruppe E) - HQ in Salonika, Luftwaffe General Lohr
Luftwaffe
Air Force Command South-East (Luftwaffenkommando Süd-Ost)
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
- NASt. Kroatien - 9 Hs126 B-1, 4 Do17P-2
- 1./NSGr. 7 - 19 He 46
- 2./NSGr. 7 - 11 Hs 126
- 371st Infantry Division
Air Force Command South (Luftwaffenkommando Süd)
CO: general Maximilian Pohl
HQ in Verona
Area of Responsibility (beside Italy): Istra, Slovenian and Croatian Littoral
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, entire Adriatic sea
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