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Wehrmacht in Yugoslavia
April 1941 - May 1945
History
Quick victory in April war made German army relaxed when it come to occupation of Yugoslavia, with most German troops leaving to take part in operation Barbarossa, attack on Soviet Union, few second line divisions left were to thinly stretched to react effectively to uprising forcing German High Command to constantly divert new divisions to contain resistance which turned into massive guerrilla war.
Orders of Battles
Heer
SS/Waffen-SS
- Police Regiments
- Divisions
- 7th SS Freiwilligsten Gebirgsjäerdivision Prinz Eugen
- 13th Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS Handschar
- 23rd Waffen SS Gebirgs Division Kama
- Corps
- Luftwaffe
- Kriegsmarine
- German armor units 1941
- German Armored trains in Balkans 1941-1945
- Alarmeinheiten
Books
- The German Infantry Handbook, 1939-1945 : Organization, Uniforms, Weapons, Equipment, Operations by Alex Buchner
- German Army, 1939-1945 : North Africa & Balkans (Men-At-Arms, No 316) by Nigel Thomas, Stephen Andrew
- Invasion Balkans! : The German Campaign in the Balkans, Spring 1941 by George E. Blau, John E. Jessup
- Wehrmacht: The Illustrated History of the German Army in WW2 by John Pimlot, Christopher Ailsby, John Pinot
Links
- THE GERMAN CAMPAIGNS IN THE BALKANS (SPRING 1941)
- German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)
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