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Belgrade Offensive

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The Belgrade Offensive or the Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation (Beogradska operacija, Београдска операција; Белградская стратегическая наступательная операция, Belgradskaya strategicheskaya nastupatel'naya operatsiya) (14 September 1944 – 24 November 1944) was a military operation in which Belgrade was liberated from the German Wehrmacht through the joint efforts of the Soviet Red Army, Yugoslav Partisans, and the Bulgarian People's Army. [1]

171 relations: Albania, Albanian Kingdom (1943–44), Alexander Löhr, Allies of World War II, Andrey Vitruk, Aranđelovac, Army Group E, Army Group F, Athens, Austria, Axis occupation of Greece, Axis powers, Šabac, Žagubica, Balkans, Banja Luka, Baranya (region), Basil Davidson, Belgrade, Benkovac, Berane, Bijelo Polje, Bileća, Blockade, Bor, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brač, Brandenburg Division, Bridgehead, Budapest Offensive, Bugojno, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Land Forces, Bulgarian People's Army, Carpathian Mountains, Chetniks, Danube, Daruvar, David Glantz, Donji Milanovac, Donji Vakuf, Drava, Drvar, Eastern Front (World War II), Echelon above corps, Fatherland Front (Bulgaria), First Army (Bulgaria), Fourth Army (Bulgaria), Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, Fyodor Tolbukhin, ..., Gacko, German Army (Wehrmacht), Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Government of National Salvation, Great Morava, Greece, Grigori F. Krivosheev, Hans Felber, Hungary, Hvar, Ibar (river), Iron Gates, Jajce, Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Joseph Stalin, Josip Broz Tito, Kimon Georgiev, Kingdom of Romania, Knin, Kolašin, Kragujevac, Kraljevo, Kruševo, Leskovac, Livno, Lothar Rendulic, Maximilian von Weichs, Mladenovac, Montenegro, Moscow, Negotin, Niš, Nikšić, Novi Sad, Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Obrenovac, Operation Ratweek (1944), Pakrac, Palace Albanija, Pančevo, Peko Dapčević, Pelješac, Petrovac, Serbia, Pljevlja, Požega, Croatia, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Prijedor, Quisling, Red Army, Republic of Macedonia, Resistance during World War II, Romania, Sandžak, Sava, Second Army (Bulgaria), Serbian State Guard, Sergey Biryuzov, Seven Enemy Offensives, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Skopje, Smederevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Sokobanja, Soviet Union, Steppe Front, Subotica, Svilajnac, Syrmian Front, Tešanj, Teregova River, Teslić, Thessaloniki, Third Army (Bulgaria), Timiș River, Tisza, Topola, Travnik, Trebinje, Trevor N. Dupuy, Tuzla, Užice, Uprising in Serbia (1941), Valjevo, Višegrad, Vidin, Virovitica, Vladimir Stoychev, Vladimir Zhdanov, Vranje, Vršac, Vukovar, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Schneckenburger, World War II, World War II in Yugoslavia, Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslavia, Zaječar, Zrenjanin, Zrmanja, Zvornik, 104th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), 117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), 118th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), 12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans), 17th Air Army, 18th SS Mountain Police Regiment, 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, 1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht), 22nd Air Landing Division (Wehrmacht), 264th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 2nd Panzer Army, 369th (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 373rd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 3rd Ukrainian Front, 46th Army (Soviet Union), 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division, 57th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Air Army, 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. Expand index (121 more) »

Albania

Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Shqipni/Shqipnia or Shqypni/Shqypnia), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe.

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Albanian Kingdom (1943–44)

The Albanian Kingdom (Albanian: Mbretëria Shqiptare, German: Königreich Albanien) existed as a de jure independent country, between 1943 and 1944.

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Alexander Löhr

Alexander Löhr (20 May 1885 – 26 February 1947) was an Austrian Air Force commander during the 1930s and, after the annexation of Austria, he was a Luftwaffe commander.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Andrey Vitruk

Andrey Nikiforovich Vitruk (Андрей Никифорович Витрук; 7 July 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a Soviet military officer, a Major General of the Soviet Air Forces and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Aranđelovac

Aranđelovac (Аранђеловац) is a town and a municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia.

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Army Group E

Army Group E (Heeresgruppe E) was a German Army Group active during World War II.

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Army Group F

Army Group F (italic) was a strategic command formation of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Axis occupation of Greece

The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (Η Κατοχή, I Katochi, meaning "The Occupation") began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded Greece to assist its ally, Fascist Italy, which had been at war with Greece since October 1940.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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Šabac

Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац) is a city located in the Mačva region of western Serbia.

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Žagubica

Žagubica (Жагубица) is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbia.

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Balkans

The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various and disputed definitions.

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Banja Luka

Banja Luka (Бања Лука) or Banjaluka (Бањалука), is the second largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the de facto capital of the Republika Srpska entity.

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Baranya (region)

Baranya or Baranja (Baranya,; Baranja,; Branau, Барања/Baranja) is a geographical region between the Danube and the Drava rivers.

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Basil Davidson

Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (9 November 1914 – 9 July 2010) was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Benkovac

Benkovac is a town and municipality (Općina) in the interior of Zadar County, Croatia.

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Berane

Berane (Serbian/Montenegrin Cyrillic: Беране) is one of the largest towns of northeastern Montenegro and a former administrative centre of the Ivangrad District.

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Bijelo Polje

Bijelo Polje (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Бијело Поље) is a town in northeastern Montenegro on the Lim River.

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Bileća

Bileća (Билећа) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Blockade

A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

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Bor, Serbia

Bor (Бор) is a city and the administrative center of the Bor District in eastern Serbia.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (or; abbreviated B&H; Bosnian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH) / Боснa и Херцеговина (БиХ), Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH)), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Brač

Brač (local Chakavian: Broč,; Bretia, Brattia; Brazza) is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of, making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic.

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Brandenburg Division

Brandenburg Division (German: Division Brandenburg) is a 1960 West German war film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Hanns Ernst Jäger, Wolfgang Reichmann and Heinz Weiss.

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Bridgehead

A bridgehead (or bridge-head) is the strategically important area of ground around the end of a bridge or other place of possible crossing over a body of water which at time of conflict is sought to be defended/taken over by the belligerent forces.

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Budapest Offensive

The Budapest Offensive was the general attack by Soviet and Romanian armies against Nazi Germany and their Axis allies from Hungary.

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Bugojno

Bugojno is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Bulgarian Land Forces

The Bulgarian Land Forces (Сухопътни войски на България) are the ground warfare branch of the Bulgarian Armed Forces.

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Bulgarian People's Army

The Bulgarian People's Army (BNA) (Bulgarian: Българска народна армия) was the military of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB).

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Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a mountain range system forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe (after the Scandinavian Mountains). They provide the habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

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Chetniks

The Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, also known as the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland or The Ravna Gora Movement, commonly known as the Chetniks (Četnici, Четници,; Četniki), was a World War II movement in Yugoslavia led by Draža Mihailović, an anti-Axis movement in their long-term goals which engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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Daruvar

Daruvar (Daruvar, Daruwar, Daruvár, Aqua Balissae) is a spa town and municipality in Slavonia, northeastern Croatia, with a population of 8,567, as of 2011.

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David Glantz

David M. Glantz (born January 11, 1942 in Port Chester, New York) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II, and the chief editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Defense Language Institute, Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, and U.S. Army War College. Glantz had a 30 year career in the United States Army, and served in the Vietnam War.

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Donji Milanovac

Donji Milanovac (Доњи Милановац) is a town in eastern Serbia.

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Donji Vakuf

Donji Vakuf (Доњи Вакуф) is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Drava

The Drava or Drave by Jürgen Utrata (2014).

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Drvar

Drvar (Cyrillic: Дрвар) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945.

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Echelon above corps

Echelons above corps (EAC), in US and NATO practice, refer to higher headquarters, of purpose-built organization, which involve a greater number of troops than would be in an army corps.

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Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)

The Fatherland Front (OF) (Отечествен фронт, ОФ) was originally a Bulgarian political resistance movement during World War II.

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First Army (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian First Army was a Bulgarian field army during the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

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Fourth Army (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Fourth Army was a Bulgarian field army during the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller

Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (29 August 1897 – 20 May 1947) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Fyodor Tolbukhin

Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (Фёдор Ива́нович Толбу́хин; June 16, 1894 – October 17, 1949) was a Soviet military commander.

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Gacko

Gacko (Гацко) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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German Army (Wehrmacht)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular German Armed Forces, from 1935 until it was demobilized and later dissolved in August 1946.

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Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje

Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Government of National Salvation

The Government of National Salvation (Vlada narodnog spasa / Влада народног спаса; Regierung der nationalen Rettung), also referred to as the Nedić's regime (Nedićev režim / Недићев режим), was the second Serbian puppet government, after the Commissioner Government, established on the Territory of the (German) Military Commander in Serbia during World War II.

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Great Morava

The Great Morava (Велика Морава/Velika Morava) is the final section of the Morava (Serbian Cyrillic: Морава), a major river system in Serbia.

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Greece

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Grigori F. Krivosheev

Grigoriy Fedotovich Krivosheyev (Григорий Федотович Кривошеев, born in 1929) is a Russian military historian and a retired Colonel General of the Russian military.

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Hans Felber

Hans-Gustav Felber (July 8, 1889 – March 8, 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Hvar

Hvar (local Chakavian dialect: Hvor or For, Pharos, Φάρος, Pharia, Lesina) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying between the islands of Brač, Vis and Korčula.

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Ibar (river)

The Ibar, also known as the Ibër and Ibri (Ibër, Ibri, Ибар), is a river that flows through eastern Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, with a total length of.

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Iron Gates

The Iron Gates (Porțile de Fier, Đerdapska klisura, Железни врата, Eisernes Tor, Vaskapu) is a gorge on the river Danube.

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Jajce

Jajce is a town and municipality located in Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Jassy–Kishinev Offensive

The Jassy–Kishinev Operation, named after the two major cities, Iași and Chișinău, in the staging area, was a Soviet offensive against Axis forces, which took place in Eastern Romania from 20 to 29 August 1944 during World War II.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз,; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (Cyrillic: Тито), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980.

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Kimon Georgiev

Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov (Кимон Георгиев Стоянов; August 11, 1882 – September 28, 1969) was a Bulgarian general who was the Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 1934 to 1935 and again from 1944 to 1946.

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Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania (Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe which existed from 1881, when prince Carol I of Romania was proclaimed King, until 1947, when King Michael I of Romania abdicated and the Parliament proclaimed Romania a republic.

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Knin

Knin is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagreb and Split.

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Kolašin

Kolašin (Serbian Cyrillic: Колашин), is a town in northern Montenegro.

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Kragujevac

Kragujevac (Крагујевац) is the fourth largest city of Serbia and the administrative center of the Šumadija District in central Serbia.

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Kraljevo

Kraljevo (Краљево) is a city in central Serbia and the administrative center of the Raška District in central Serbia.

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Kruševo

Kruševo (Крушево,; Crushuva "Crușuva") is a town in Macedonia.

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Leskovac

Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац) is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia.

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Livno

Livno is a city and the administrative center of Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Lothar Rendulic

Lothar Rendulic (23 October 1887 – 17 January 1971)Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.) (1980): Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, 1918–1938, Abteilung VIII, 20.

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Maximilian von Weichs

Maximilian von Weichs (12 November 1881 – 27 September 1954) was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Mladenovac

Mladenovac (Младеновац) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.

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Montenegro

Montenegro (Montenegrin: Црна Гора / Crna Gora, meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Negotin

Negotin (Неготин) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of the eastern Serbia.

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Niš

Niš (Ниш) is the third-largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District.

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Nikšić

Nikšić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Никшић) is the second largest city of Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa Hill.

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Novi Sad

Novi Sad (Нови Сад,; Újvidék; Nový Sad; see below for other names) is the second largest city of Serbia, the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and the administrative center of the South Bačka District.

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Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, "High Command of the Armed Forces") was the High Command of the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Obrenovac

Obrenovac (Обреновац) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.

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Operation Ratweek (1944)

Launched on 1 September 1944, Operation Ratweek was a series of coordinated attacks on the Axis lines of communication, principally the railways, by Yugoslav partisans, the combined operations units of Land Forces Adriatic, the heavy bombers of the 15th Air Force and the light and medium bombers of the Balkan Air Force.

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Pakrac

Pakrac is a town in western Slavonia, Croatia, population 4,842, total municipality population 8,460 (census 2011).

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Palace Albanija

Palace Albanija (Палата Албанија, Palata Albanija) is a high-rise building in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Pančevo

Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево,, Pancsova, Panciova, Pánčevo) is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Peko Dapčević

Petar "Peko" Dapčević (25 June 1913 – 10 February 1999) was a famous Montenegrin and Yugoslav communist who fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, joined the Partisan uprising in Montenegro, and became commander of the Yugoslav 1st and 4th Armies.

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Pelješac

Pelješac (local Chakavian dialect: Pelišac; Sabbioncello) is a peninsula in southern Dalmatia in Croatia.

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Petrovac, Serbia

Petrovac (Петровац), also known as Petrovac na Mlavi (Петровац на Млави, "Petrovac on Mlava"; Vlach: Piatra Mlavei), is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbia.

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Pljevlja

Pljevlja (Cyrillic: Пљевља) is a town and the center of Pljevlja Municipality located in the northern part of Montenegro.

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Požega, Croatia

Požega is a city in western Slavonia, eastern Croatia, with a total population of 26,248 (census 2011).

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Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Президиум Верховного Совета or Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta) was a Soviet governmental institution – a permanent body of the Supreme Soviets (parliaments).

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Prijedor

Prijedor (Приједор)) is a city located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 89,397 inhabitants within its administrative limits. Prijedor is situated in the Bosanska Krajina region. It is an economically prosperous municipality hosting a wide range of industries, services and educational institutions. The city's geographical location close to major European capitals has made it an important industrial and commercial hub nationally. Prijedor is known for its Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Christian and Islamic heritage. Historic buildings from the Ottoman and Austrian-Hungarian periods are a feature of the urban landscape. The city underwent extensive renovation between 2006–2009.

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Quisling

Quisling is a term originating in Norway, which is used in Scandinavian languages and in English for a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia (translit), officially the Republic of Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Resistance during World War II

Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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Sandžak

Sandžak (Санџак) or Sanjak is a historical geo-political region, now divided by the border between Serbia and Montenegro.

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Sava

The Sava (Сава) is a river in Central and Southeastern Europe, a right tributary of the Danube.

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Second Army (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Second Army was a Bulgarian field army during the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

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Serbian State Guard

The Serbian State Guard or SDS (Српска државна стража / Srpska državna straža; Serbische Staatsgarde) was a collaborationist paramilitary force used to impose law and order within the German occupied territory of Serbia during World War II.

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Sergey Biryuzov

Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov (August 21, 1904 – October 19, 1964) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chief of the General Staff.

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Seven Enemy Offensives

The Seven Enemy Offensives (Sedam neprijateljskih ofanziva) is a group name used in Yugoslav historiography to refer to seven major Axis military operations undertaken during World War II in Yugoslavia against the Yugoslav Partisans.

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Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet

Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, (11 March 1911 – 15 June 1996) was a Scottish soldier, writer and politician.

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Skopje

Skopje (Скопје) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia.

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Smederevo

Smederevo (Смедерево) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia.

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia or SFRY) was a socialist state led by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars.

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Sokobanja

Sokobanja (Сокобања) is a spa town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of the eastern Serbia.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Steppe Front

The Steppe Front (Степной фронт), later the 2nd Ukrainian Front (2-й Украинский фронт), was a ''front'' of the Red Army during the Second World War.

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Subotica

Subotica (Суботица, Szabadka) is a city and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Svilajnac

Svilajnac (pronounced /sviːlaɪnʌt͡s/; Свилајнац) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia.

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Syrmian Front

The Syrmian Front (Sremski front, Сремски фронт) was an Axis line of defense during World War II.

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Tešanj

Tešanj is a town and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Teregova River

The Teregova River is a tributary of the Timiş River in Romania.

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Teslić

Teslić (Теслић) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη, Thessaloníki), also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Third Army (Bulgaria)

The Bulgarian Third Army was a Bulgarian field army during the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

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Timiș River

The Timiș or Tamiš (Timiș; Тамиш/Tamiš; Temesch; Temes) is a, IPCDR, p 12 long river originating from the Semenic Mountains, southern Carpathian Mountains, Caraș-Severin County, Romania.

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Tisza

The Tisza or Tisa is one of the main rivers of Central Europe.

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Topola

Topola (Топола) is a town and municipality located in the Šumadija District of central Serbia.

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Travnik

Travnik is a town and municipality and the administrative center of Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Trebinje

Trebinje (Требиње) is a city located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Trevor N. Dupuy

Trevor Nevitt Dupuy (May 3, 1916 – June 5, 1995) was a colonel, United States Army, retired, soldier and noted military historian.

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Tuzla

Tuzla is the third largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Užice

Užice (Ужице) is a city and the administrative center of the Zlatibor District in western Serbia.

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Uprising in Serbia (1941)

The Uprising in Serbia was initiated in July 1941 by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia against the German occupation forces and their Serbian quisling auxiliaries in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.

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Valjevo

Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево) is a city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia.

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Višegrad

Višegrad (Вишеград) is a town and municipality located in eastern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Vidin

Vidin (Видин) is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria.

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Virovitica

Virovitica is a Croatian city near the Hungarian border.

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Vladimir Stoychev

Vladimir Dimitrov Stoychev (Владимир Димитров Стойчев, 24 march 1892 – 27 April 1990) was a Bulgarian Colonel General, diplomat and Olympic equestrian.

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Vladimir Zhdanov

Vladimir Ivanovich Zhdanov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Жданов) (1902–1964) was a colonel-general of tank troops in the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

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Vranje

Vranje (Врање) is a city and the administrative center of the Pčinja District in southern Serbia.

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Vršac

Vršac (Вршац) is a city located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Vukovar

Vukovar (ВуковарThe official use of Serbian Cyrillic in Vukovar is subject to a dispute involving the local and national authorities, and is the source of a current political controversy. See #Minority languages.) is a city in eastern Croatia.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht (lit. "defence force")From wehren, "to defend" and Macht., "power, force".

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Wilhelm Schneckenburger

Wilhelm Schneckenburger (30 March 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the XVII Army Corps.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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World War II in Yugoslavia

Military operations in World War II in Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and client regimes.

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Yugoslav Partisans

The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: Partizani, Партизани or the National Liberation Army,Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); Народноослободителна војска (НОВ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska (NOV) officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia,Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odredi Jugoslavije (NOV i POJ), Народноослободилачка војска и партизански одреди Југославије (НОВ и ПОЈ); Народноослободителна војска и партизански одреди на Југославија (НОВ и ПОЈ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska in partizanski odredi Jugoslavije (NOV in POJ) was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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Zaječar

Zaječar (Зајечар, Zaicear) is a city and the administrative center of the Zaječar District in eastern Serbia.

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Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin (Зрењанин,; Nagybecskerek; Zreňanin) is a city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

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Zrmanja

Zrmanja is a river in southern Lika and northern Dalmatia, Croatia.

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Zvornik

Zvornik is a city located in eastern Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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104th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

104th Jäger Division was a German infantry division of World War II.

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117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

117th Jäger Division was a German infantry division of World War II.

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118th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

The 118th Jäger Division (118.) was a light infantry division of the German Army in World War II.

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12th Corps (Yugoslav Partisans)

The 12th Corps (12.) was a corps of the Yugoslav Partisans that fought against the Germans, Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and Chetniks in occupied Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during World War II.

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17th Air Army

The 17th Air Army (17-я воздушная армия) was an Air army of the Red Air Force and Soviet Air Forces from 1942.

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18th SS Mountain Police Regiment

The 18th SS Mountain Police Regiment (SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18) was initially named the 18th Mountain Police Regiment (Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18) when it was formed in 1942 from existing Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) units for security duties in Occupied Europe.

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1944 Bulgarian coup d'état

The 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, also known as the 9 September coup d'état (Деветосептемврийски преврат, Devetoseptemvriyski prevrat) and called in pre-1989 Bulgaria the National Uprising of 9 September or the Socialist Revolution of 9 September, was a forcible change in the Kingdom of Bulgaria's administration and government carried out on the eve of 9 September 1944.

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1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)

The 1st Mountain Division (1.) was an elite formation of the German Wehrmacht during World War II, and is remembered for its involvement in multiple large-scale war crimes.

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22nd Air Landing Division (Wehrmacht)

The 22nd Infantry Division was a specialized German infantry division in World War II.

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264th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 264th Infantry Division was created at 20 May 1943 in Rouen.

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2nd Panzer Army

The 2nd Panzer Army (2.) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5, 1941.

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369th (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 369th (Croatian) Infantry Division (369., 369.) was a so-called 'legionnaire' division of the Wehrmacht and was formed with about 8,500 soldiers recruited from the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) commanded by about 3,500 German officers, non-commissioned officers and specialists.

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373rd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 373rd (Croatian) Infantry Division (373., 373.) was a division of the German Army during World War II.

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392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division (392., 392.) was a so-called "legionnaire" division of the German Army during World War II.

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3rd Ukrainian Front

3rd Ukrainian Front (Третій Український фронт) was a Front of the Red Army during World War II.

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46th Army (Soviet Union)

The 46th Army was a Soviet Red Army field army during World War II.

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4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division

The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

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57th Army (Soviet Union)

The 57th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army that was created in 1941, and then disbanded and created a second time in 1943.

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5th Air Army

The 5th Air Army was an air army of the Soviet Air Forces and later the Ukrainian Air Force.

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7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen

The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" (7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen") was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II in Yugoslavia.

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Belgrade Operation, Belgrade operation, Liberation of Belgrade, Red Army in Yugoslavia.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade_Offensive

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