German Armored Forces & Vehicles

Jäger in Dalmatia

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September 1943, Dalmatia, Croatia: Aufklärungsabteilung 114 of the 114 Jäger-Division with their Italian made AB41 with lengthened antennas. The 114. Jäger-Division was reorganised out of the 714. Infanterie-Division on 1st April 1943. It took part in "Operation Achse", the disarming of Italian units after the capitulation, in Dalmatia, fighting in the meanwhile against the 6. lička divizja (6th Lika Division, a Yugoslav partisan unit). In December 1943 it took part in the "Operation Ziethen", an anti-partisan operation conducted by German, Ustaša and Četnik forces, in the area of Livno. In January 1944 the division sees action in Lika and Gorski Kotar, afterwards it is released from the Second Panzer Army and transferred to the Italian front. There it is first thrown against the Anzio bridgehead, afterwards it stayed on the Italian front until it's destruction in April 1945. The division is known to have been implicated in a war crime in Filetto di Camarda, an Italian village, where 17men were shot as a reprisal for the killing of 4 German soldiers on 07. June 1944. Parts of the village were also burnt down. Another known crime is the killing of 40 civilians in Gubbio (also Italy) on 22. June 1944 as a reprisal for a partisan attack. ----------------------------------- Evillittlekenny