Balkan war history

Division movement plan on January 16, 1943  000136 GERMAN MILITARY ABBREVIATIONS K.T.B – War diary Gren.Rgt - grenadier regiment I./737 – Number of the Company Gr.W - Granatwerfer (GrW) – mortar. Sso - south-southeast K.T.B. 16.1. Gren.Rgt.749's advance was made more difficult by road conditions. I./749 minor enemy contact near Grbavci. (village near Bosanska Gradiska, West Bosnia) Casualties: 1 killed, 1 wounded.   K.T.B. 17.1. Before the one advancing west from Banja Luka I./737 evades opponents to the SW (South-West); III./737 is at point. 153 (11.5 Prijedor) also with Gr.W. attacked and has losses. II./737 is transported from Prijedor on the E brought up and placed to the left of III./737. Before the east-west. the Sana proceeding to 5 sso (south-southeast) Prijedor II./749 avoids enemies to the SW. Order on the composition of the department. Casualties: 1 killed, 5 wounded.   K.T.B. 18.1.   March group Gren.Rgt.7...

Column of Partizan in Prozor. The Battle of the Prozor was one of the significant battles of the Fourth Enemy Offensive. The battles for Prozor were fought on February 15 and 16, 1943, after which the Yugoslav partisans managed to briefly liberate the city from the Italians.   This attack by the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia on Prozor was remembered for Tito's order "The Prozor must fall tonight!" After the end of the Fourth and Fifth enemy offensives,  Prozor briefly fell into the hands of the partisans again in August 1943. The attack on Prozor took place as part of the planned operation of the Main Operational Group of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia to penetrate the east and in a wider part of the operational unit known in historical fiction as the Battle of the Neretva or the Fourth Enemy Offensive.  General Pekić, Fraković, Colonel Boban, next to the armored car of the Black Legion, Prozora area, March 1943. Conflicting parties  ...

  Captured Yugoslav officers before their deportation to Germany "PROVISIONS ON THE CAPITULATION OF YUGOSLAVIA ADOPTED ON APRIL 17, 1941. FROM THE GERMAN-ITALIAN ARMED FORCE AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF YUGOSLAVIA ” PROVISIONS ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF A PEACE BETWEEN THE GERMAN AND YUGOSLAV ARMED FORCES 1) Main provisions: By signing the armistice agreement, the Yugoslav Armed Forces has to capitulate unconditionally and be taken prisoner of war. To that end, the commanders of the units will report to the nearest German officers. 2) Organization of the evacuation of prisoners: Troops are to be collected by units where they are located. Until the surrender, the Yugoslav officers are fully responsible for discipline and order and therefore remain with their units. Soldiers who leave their units after the armistice is concluded will be sentenced to death. 3) Surrender of weapons and all war material: Weapons and war materials remain in principle with the respective units. ...

King Peter II in conversation with Ivo Šubašić,  1942. -           The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, Benito Mussolini, issued a decree regulating the relations between the military and civilian authorities in the annexed territory of Yugoslavia, which entrusts the defense of public order to the military authorities. Advisory council of the High Commissioner's office from the province of Ljubljana and Benito Mussolini -           The Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the General Staff of the National Liberation Movement for BiH sent a proclamation to the people on the occasion of the open betrayal of the Chetniks in eastern Bosnia: they explain in detail the goals and motives of the betrayal of the Chetnik leadership; call on the fighters of the Chetnik units to join the National Liberation Movement detachment and continue the liberation struggle together with the partisans; they ...

  Soldiers of the Second Proletarian Brigade march through eastern Bosnia, July 1943. The Second Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade, also the Second Serbian Brigade, was formed by order of the Supreme Staff of the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia on March 1, 1942, in Čajniče, by fighters from the Užice, Čačak and Second Šumadija Partisan Detachments. On the day of its formation, it had four battalions with about 1,000 fighters.   The first commander of the brigade was Ratko Sofijanic, a national hero, political commissar Milinko Kusic, a national hero, and the party leader and deputy political commissar Spasenija Cana Babovic, a national hero.   Ratko Sofijanic commander of the 2nd Proletarian Brigade The Second Proletarian NOU Brigade covered about 24,000 kilometers on its war journey. About 15,000 fighters from all over Yugoslavia fought in its ranks. It destroyed about 62,000 enemy soldiers. She gave a large number of ...

Tito talking to Maclean   Sir Fitzroy MacLean is a famous Scottish soldier, writer, and politician. He was the head of the British military mission to the Yugoslav Partisans. Maclean wrote several books, including Eastern Approaches, in which he recounted three extraordinary series of adventures: traveling, often incognito, in Soviet Central Asia; fighting in the Western Desert campaign, where he specialized in commando raids behind enemy lines; and living rough with Josip Broz Tito and his Yugoslav Partisans while commanding the Maclean Mission there. It has been widely speculated that Ian Fleming used Maclean as one of his inspirations for James Bond. Fitzroy MacLean on Vis in 1944. Before the war, he worked under the name Safford Cripps at the British Embassy in Moscow. Fitzroy Maclean was Churchill's friend and the trusted man whom Churchill promoted to brigadier general at just 36, and sent to Yugoslavia "to find out who was killing the most Germans to help them kil...