6th Army Corps

6th Army Corps

VI Corpo d'Armata

History

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After Italian capitulation, Corps commander agreed with German commander of Dubrovnik and 14th SS Regiment, SS StandartenfÃ¼hrer August Schmidthuber to begun surrendering heavier armament, ships and other military installations on 11 September at 16:00 followed by entire Italian units in Dubrovnik on 12 September.

But contrary to that agreements Italians first prevented to leave harbor and on 10 September scuttled cargo ship "Brundusium" which was taken over by Germans and was suppose to transport 900 tons of aviation bombs and 35000(?) members of German anti-aircraft units to DurrÃ«s, Albania.

In the evening General Amico, commander of Marche division, together with group of officers decided to resist disarming by Germans who after learning of this immediately begun to disarm Italian units instead of waiting until next day as planed allowing them to disarm many of Italian units. Next day remaining Italian resistance was quickly crushed with support of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers which bombed Italian barracks which surrendered by 11:00, resulting in 10 killed and 23 wounded suffered by Germans and 15 killed and 68 wounded on Italian side. Germans disarmed and took as prisoners of war over 30000 in Dubrovnik area.

War crimes

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Order of battle

32nd Infantry Division 'Marche'

154th Infantry Division 'Murge'

Staff

Commander

to 2 March 1943 - general Negri

from 2 March 1943 - general Alessandro Piazzoni

Chief of Staff

colonel Carlo Cigliana

Operations

Operation WEISS

Operation SCHWARZ

References