Operation WOLKENBRUCH - Axis

Axis - Order of Battle

Operation WOLKENBRUCH

Units used in first and second phase

50,000 soldiers and officers, more than 150 tanks, 25 assault and 90 motorised AT guns

71st Infantry Division

191st Infantry Regiment

194th Infantry Regiment

221st Infantry Regiment

171st Artillery Regiment

reinforced with 138th Reserve Mountain Regiment

reinforced 1st Panzer Regiment of the 1st SS Panzer Division "Adolf Hitler"

901st Panzergrenadier Regiment

two battalions of 19th SS Polizei Regiment

SS Battalion Karstjaeger

1st Battalion of 1st Regiment of 1st Panzer Division and 1st Mountain Jaeger Battalion

21st Panzergrenadier Regiment of 42nd Panzer Division

132nd Infantry Regiment of 44th Panzergrenadier Division "Hoch-und-Deutschmeister"

Units used in 3rd phase

Under command of Staff of the 71st Infantry Division in Opatija.

71st Infantry Division

194th Infantry Regiment advancing Cerik - Å kljevo - Krasica - Hreljin and link up with 901st

reinforced with 901st Panzer Grenadier Regiment tasked with advance Kamenjak - Gornje Jelenje - OÅ¡rtica - s. Hreljnin towards Kraljevica and envelope Partisan 3rd Brigade in area Draga - Krasica - Hreljin

14th SS Polizei Regiment advancing from Ogulin towards Skradin and Josipdol

44th Panzergrenadier Division "Hoch-und-Deutschmeister" - disguised as 88th Infantry Division arriving on 11 October in area of Delnice and advancing to Brod na Kupi and Slovenian border

132nd Infantry Regiment

44th Reconnaisance Detachment

Units used in fourth phase

50,000 men, more than 110 tanks, 10 assault guns and more than 140 motorised AT guns.

HQ of German 2nd SS Panzer Corps and German-Slovene Domobran garrison in Ljubljana

1st SS Panzer Regiment of 1st SS Panzer Division "Adolf Hitler"

44th Panzergrenadier Division "Hoch-und-Deutschmeister"

132nd Infantry Regiment

44th Reconnaisance Detachment

162nd Turkestan Division

303rd Turkestan Infantry Regiment

314th Turkestan Infantry Regiment

236th Turkestan Artillery Regiment

Wehrmannschaft Battalion "Sued" (umlaut)

Mountain Jaeger Regiment "Admont"

Mountain Battalion "Heine"

14th SS Polizei Regiment

reinforced 19th SS Polizei Regiment

901st Panzergrenadier Regiment

112nd Artillery Regiment

small parts of 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking"

small parts of 11th SS Panzer Division "Nordland"

194th Infantry Regiment of 71st Infantry Division

large part of 71st Infantry Division

Slovenian Home Defense Battalion

In several sources Army Group B is misidentified as "C", 2nd SS Panzer Corps as 1st SS Army Corps and Hermann GÃ¶ring division which wasn't in the area.