EX Yugoslavia

[coach mcguirk]

For first, the fact is that Yu partisans liberated country from germans by themselves, which is great thing. there was so much divisios in armed forces, that some fought on axis side, such as croatian Ustashas and Domobrans and serbian Chetnics, while partisans faoght aganst them, germans, italians, romanians, hungarians. and they won!
there are few good sites about all that, will post links later

[Dani]

Welcome Coach!
Could you post more info about partisans/yugoslav axis side?
Edited: Dobar dan!! :D

[coach mcguirk]

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=34 - croatian axis side info
for partisans there are many sites, try this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=hr&q=partisans+yugoslavia&lr=
:wink:
Dobar dan!

[Sturmtruppen]

welcome to the site coach! :D

[Hanz Lutz]

Drugovi juris :lol: :lol:

[Firefly]

For first, the fact is that Yu partisans liberated country from germans by themselves, which is great thing. there was so much divisios in armed forces, that some fought on axis side, such as croatian Ustashas and Domobrans and serbian Chetnics, while partisans faoght aganst them, germans, italians, romanians, hungarians. and they won!
there are few good sites about all that, will post links later

Thats strange, there were thousands of Soviet Troops in Yugoslavia from October 1944, and there were still Germans there as far as Im aware. Can you give any sources:

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/dates.html

[Dani]

For first, the fact is that Yu partisans liberated country from germans by themselves, which is great thing. there was so much divisios in armed forces, that some fought on axis side, such as croatian Ustashas and Domobrans and serbian Chetnics, while partisans faoght aganst them, germans, italians, romanians, hungarians. and they won!
there are few good sites about all that, will post links later

Thats strange, there were thousands of Soviet Troops in Yugoslavia from October 1944, and there were still Germans there as far as Im aware. Can you give any sources:

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/dates.html

They won with Soviet support. I think that coach was talking too much generally. For instance: On Romanians, no Romanian units has been involved in fights in Yugoslavia against partisans up to September 1944. And on September 1944 when Russians reached very easily (due to Romania's act on 23rd of August 1944) the Romanian-Yugoslav border, no Romanian units were involved in fight against partisans (at that time we were on Allied side).

[Firefly]

Thanks for that Dani. My speciality is not the Balkans but I did read of Soviet forces in Yugoslavia.

Thanks again.

[Hanz Lutz]

Soviet help Partizans to crash a Srem front .

[Dani]

For Srem Front:

Quoted:
In the course of the last war year the units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, mainly from Serbia, also participated in combat operations in Croatia; already in the latter half of l944, the 12th Vojvodina Corps and one division of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia took part in operations in the broader area of Sarengrad on the Srem Front. In April 1945, all field and strategic units of the Yugoslav Army (four Armies) participated in the liberation of Croatia, i.e. in the final operations for the liberation of Yugoslavia.
From: http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosta/ndh/ndh-sastav_partizana_u_ndh.html

Also quoted:
By September 1944, the Germans had retreated from Greece, Aegean, Vardar and Pirin Macedonia; and by October the British had entered Athens. The Germans were bottled-up in northeastern Yugoslavia, which is the Srem region in Serbia. Srem was seen as the last stand in the Balkans.
From: http://realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2748

[Hanz Lutz]

If they Germans hold Srem maybe units from Greece can go into Germany and defend her.

[Domobranec]

One of the Axis force in Yugoslavia were "domobranci" [eng. home defenders]. I am wondering if any of you recognize the machine guns:

http://sweb.cz/fremd/c12.ht49.jpg

[Cuts]

They do look unsurprisingly like ZB26's*, aka Kulomet vz.26 / Puska-Mitralez M26, (German designation MG26(t) / MG146/1(j),) the forerunner of the cuddly bren and the ultra-cuddly LMG.




* The pic is too grainy for me to tell if they're vz. 26, 27, 28 or 30's

[Domobranec]

Thanks for your help.

[Strina-Croatia]

Did u know there was also a unit caleed after this one "Hrvatsko domobranstvo"in this war? :wink:

[Cuts]

Yes.