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	German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944)
		The purpose of this study is to describe briefly the German campaign against the guerrillas in the Balkans during the period of the European Axis occupation, from the end of hostilities against Greece and Yugoslavia in April 1941 to the capture of Belgrade by the Soviet forces and the Partisans in October 1944.
		To free German troops for employment in Operation BARBAROSSA and in compliance with commitments to Mussolini, the occupation of the Balkans was to be primarily a responsibility of the Italians.
		The German Twelfth Army, which had driven the length of the Balkan Peninsula and conquered Greece, was assigned to the occupation of the German-held areas in the southeast, with headquarters near Athens, whence it moved on 27 October to Salonika.
	www.history.army.mil /books/wwii/antiguer-ops/AG-BALKAN.HTM (21436 words)

	German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The purpose of this study is to describe briefly the German campaign against the guerrillas in the Balkans during the period of the European Axis occupation, from the end of hostilities against Greece and Yugoslavia in April 1941 to the capture of Belgrade by the Soviet forces and the Partisans in October 1944.
		To free German troops for employment in Operation BARBAROSSA and in compliance with commitments to Mussolini, the occupation of the Balkans was to be primarily a responsibility of the Italians.
		The German Twelfth Army, which had driven the length of the Balkan Peninsula and conquered Greece, was assigned to the occupation of the German-held areas in the southeast, with headquarters near Athens, whence it moved on 27 October to Salonika.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/antiguer-ops/AG-BALKAN.HTM (21436 words)

	Walther Wenck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He commanded the German Twelfth Army which he ordered to surrender to the United States in order to avoid capture by the Soviets.
		The area of control of Wenck's Twelfth Army east of the Elbe had become a vast refugee camp as German civilians fled the path of the approaching Soviet forces.
		Arriving at the furthest point of his attack he radioed the message "Hurry up, we are waiting for you." Despite the attacks on his escape path, Wenck brought his own and the remnants of the Ninth Army as well as many civilian refugees safely across the Elbe into territory occupied by the US Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walther_Wenck (479 words)

	WW II: The World at War 1943
		It was a German scientist who had discovered atomic fission and Germans had first published the theory of the chain-reacting pile.
		Army of occupations (As-troops): 315.000 Italians and 90.000 Germans.
		For the island of Kos a German convoy is attacked by British cruisers and destroyers; 7 transports and an escort are sunk.
	www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/1943.htm (3576 words)

	The Greek Civil War 1943-1949
		With the Red Army advancing steadily from the east, the German forces were at risk of being cut off on the Greek peninsula as the Soviets moved into the Balkans.
		The Army resumed the offensive on August 5 and by the 17th, after dislodging the DSE from their positions on the ridges, very nearly had Markos surrounded in the pocket.
		On the 27th, the Army seized Mount Grammos itself and DSE morale and resistance collapsed.8 Although the DSE con- tinued to fight from several small pockets, by August 30 the Greek Army was firmly in control of Grammos/Vitsi.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/KJC.htm (18288 words)

	THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS (SPRING 1941): PART II
		The Hungarians acceded to all German requests for the use of their territory and agreed to take an active part in the operations by committing contingents, which were to be subordinated to the German Army High Command.
		The revised timetable thus foresaw that the attacks of Twelfth Army to the south and west and the air bombardment would be launched simultaneously on 6 April, the thrust of First Panzer Group on 8 April, and the Second Army attack on 12 April.
		In the opinion of some German military experts the pronounced inferiority of Yugoslav equipment and material was partly compensated for by the inaccessibility of the country and toughness of the individual soldier.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/20_260_2.htm (13221 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		German forces (known later as the Afrika Korps) under General Erwin Rommel landed in Libya in February 1941 to renew the assault on Egypt.
		Almost 85-90% of all German troops were deployed on the Eastern Front and only 400,000 Germans in two armies, the German Seventh Army and the newly created Fifth Panzer Army was all that Germany could spare to defend against the allied invasion.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/World_War_II (8864 words)

	List of World War II military units of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For smaller units, see List of German corps in WWII and List of German divisions in WWII.
		German Army Group Upper Rhine or German Army Group Oberrhein
		German Army Group Lohr or German Army Group Ostmark
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_World_War_II_military_units_of_Germany (133 words)

	Renegade Miniatures - Articles - German Infantry Regiments 1914 - 1915
		Meanwhile, the III Army Corps covered the Brandenburg Military District and had its headquarters in Berlin, whilst the XII Army Corps came from Eastern Saxony and had its headquarters in Dresden.
		If you wish to recreate the German Landwehr troops from August 1914 to early 1915, the uniforms are very similar with the addition of a 'Landwehr cross' on the helmet cover (Reservists had the letter 'R' and their regimental number).
		Distinctions between units in the German Army were, typically, rather confusing but entirely logical; the tunic shoulder straps bore the number of the Regiment (as did the helmet cover), whilst other distinctions within the regiment were demonstrated by different colourings in the bayonet knot.
	www.renegademiniatures.com /article3.htm (1275 words)

	THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS (SPRING 1941): PART II
		The Hungarians acceded to all German requests for the use of their territory and agreed to take an active part in the operations by committing contingents, which were to be subordinated to the German Army High Command.
		The revised timetable thus foresaw that the attacks of Twelfth Army to the south and west and the air bombardment would be launched simultaneously on 6 April, the thrust of First Panzer Group on 8 April, and the Second Army attack on 12 April.
		The two Yugoslav armies they had encountered were in such a state of confusion that they were no longer able to make any serious attempt to delay the German thrust or cut the German lines of communications that extended over a distance of roughly 125 miles from the point of entry into Yugoslav territory.
	www.history.army.mil /books/wwii/balkan/20_260_2.htm (13221 words)

	United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report (European War)
		Study of German war production data as well as interrogation of those who were in charge of rearmament at the time, leaves no doubt that until the defeat at Moscow German industry was incompletely mobilized and that in fact Germany did not foresee the need for full economic mobilization.
		The German electric power situation was in fact in a precarious condition from the beginning of the war and became more precarious as the war progressed; this fact is confirmed by statements of a large number of German officials, by confidential memoranda of the National Load Dispatcher, and secret minutes of the Central Planning Committee.
		The Germans were far more concerned over attacks on one or more of their basic industries and services -- their oil, chemical, or steel industries or their power or transportation networks -- than they were over attacks on their armament industry or the city areas.
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		German army engineers began bridging the Danube River on Feb. 28, 1941, and on March 1, just before German troops crossed the Romanian border into the country, Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact.
		The plan was for the Second Army to break through the Yugoslav lines on a broad front north and northeast of Zagreb and to advance southward between the Drava and Sava rivers toward Belgrade.
		The chief of the German Army General Staff noted in his diary that the campaign was over: all that remained was the mopping up.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_7.html (2320 words)

	Baltic Sea, 1915
		German forces include the new Tenth Army (Gen von Eichhorn) on the northern flank of East Prussia, further south the Eighth Army (Gen von Below), and Ninth Army (Mackensen) on the southern flank of the German line opposite Warsaw.
		The Russian army is out of the fight for the present with 200,000 casualties including prisoners - a tactical, but not a strategic victory for the Germans.
		The newly formed Eleventh Army is moved from the Western Front, covered by the attack on Ypres on the 22nd, and placed with the Austrian Fourth under Mackensen's command behind the Gorlice-Tarnow gap, south of the Vistula River.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1AreaBaltic1915.htm (2034 words)

	Führerbunker
		The Führerbunker (German, literally meaning "shelter for the leader" or "the Führer's shelter") is a common name for a complex of subterranean rooms in Berlin, Germany, where German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide during World War II.
		In an attempt to coax Hitler out of his rage, General Alfred Jodl speculated that the German Twelfth Army, under the command of General Walther Wenck, that was facing the Americans, could move to Berlin because the Americans, already on the Elbe River, were unlikely to move further east.
		By the end of the 25 April there was no prospect that the German defence of the city could do anything but delay the capture of the city by the Soviets as the decisive stages of the battle had already been fought and lost by the Germans outside the city.
	www.saak.nl /berlin/bunkerberlin/bunkerberlin.html (2665 words)

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		Greece by the German presence in Rumania and Bulgaria.
		This puny force was quite inadequate to hold the German horde, and one can only assume that the German speed of reaction was wholly underestimated, and that wishful thinking had descended into fantasy.
		German Twelfth Army of fifteen divisions, of which four were armoured.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWgreece.htm (1175 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Max von Gallwitz
		Max von Gallwitz (1852-1937) served as a General of Artillery in the German army during the First World War, having started the war as commander of an independent cavalry corps on the Western Front for the siege of Namur in August.
		During this period Gallwitz was awarded the Pour le Merite, Germany's highest honour, for outstanding leadership and distinguished military planning during the successful offensive against Russian forces in Galicia, and for the capture of the Russian fortress at Pultusk as well as the heavily fortified position at Narev.
		Switching commands again in August 1916 Gallwitz was given charge of Fifth Army, a position he held until 1918, during which time he was called upon to defend against the U.S.-French advance into the St. Mihiel salient, as well as playing a minor role at Third Ypres.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/gallwitz.htm (353 words)

	Glossary of Events: WWI: Russia
		Russia entered the first world war with the largest army in the world, standing at 1,400,000 soldiers; when fully mobilized the Russian army expanded to over 5,000,000 soldiers (though at the outset of war Russia could not arm all its soldiers, having a supply of 4.6 million rifles).
		The German High Command, realising a war with two fronts would be impossible maintain, told the troops on the Western Front to dig in and hold their ground — a shifted their attention to Russia.
		The German Army followed at the heels of the retreating Russians, but by the end of September the German advance halted to reinforce all the gains it had made: the new front was established from the Southern border of the Russian state of Moldavia straight up to kilometers outside Riga in Latvia.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/events/w/ww1/russia.htm (1231 words)

	www.GDENNEY.co.uk
		When the German soldiers saw a Grasshopper approaching their position, they knew it was time to move because very soon they would be under fire from allied artillery.
		The USAAF accepted the aircraft as 44-80480 and at the beginning of December 1944 it was assigned to the 9TH Air Force for Army Ground Forces.
		It served with the 30th Infantry Division of the Twelfth Army Group, wearing the codes 44-E. It was retired from service on the 16th October 1946 and sent to Belgium.
	www.gdenney.co.uk /cub (249 words)

	Psychological Warfare, PSYOP Articles and Documents
		As well as describing their own work, the report covers Nazi propaganda leaflets dropped over the front lines in the 5th US Army sector and reactions of Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW) to Allied aerial leaflets.
		As they could not create a genuine resistance organisation they decided to fabricate one by using fl propaganda, fake signals traffic, dropping supplies to non-existent reception committees and persuading a few hapless German Prisoners of War to be parachuted into the heart of the Third Reich.
		Perhaps the German authorities could be panicked into believing they were in mortal danger of being overthrown by their own people or at least encourage a few anti-Nazi Germans to take up arms against their Nazi bosses.
	www.psywar.org /histories.php (2525 words)

	German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941-1944) April 6, 1999
		It describes the German's anti-guerrilla operations in the Balkans during WWII.
		The Partisans, laden with loot, were busily re-equipping and regrouping their forces in the mountains and carrying out a harassing campaign against the new occupation troops.
		Personnel of the detachments were usually young and combat wise veterans of German campaigns on other fronts.
	www.d-n-i.net /fcs/comments/c255.htm (18601 words)

	Denis Falvey
		The Germans could have island-hopped from Kithera and Milos, as well as coming directly from Piraeus.
		In the summer of 1942 the Eighth Army had lost confidence in its commanders.
		The Eighth Army viewed the arrival of a new commander with some scepticism.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWfalveyD.htm (1125 words)

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