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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the military aspects of the Yugoslavian invasion by the Germans in 1941. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of the Yugoslavian countryside, but also dismembered all existing Yugoslavian institutions (Lampe 197). The control over this region directed by the German invasion as well as control over Greece
by Italy shaped the major factions of World War II, directed military action through out the region, and promoted initial Nazi successes in the early segment of the War.
It has been suggested by a number of historians and military theorists that the allies ignored the significance of the Balkan Peninsula until it was too late: by
the time the Allies were prepared to respond, the Nazi military had taken control of the stretch from Bulgaria to Greece (Jovanovich 105). Yugoslavias renouncement of the Tripartite Pact
resulted in a German military strike that would seal the control of the region (Jovanovich 105). Yugoslavia could not remain a neutral region through 1941, because of its position at
the base of the southern flank of Hitlers Russian front and because it was also situated across the shortest route to Rommels Afrika Korps and the Eastern Mediterranean (Lampe 198).
Germany had already designed their Operation Maritsa, the plan to take control of Greece and occupy a significant stretch of land separating the Allies from Russia (Palmer and Colton
831). Adding the Yugoslavian campaign to Operation Maritsa was a necessary element in the steps towards Nazi control over the region (Lampe 198). Yugoslavia was an easy target.
Though a Yugoslav military attach? in Berlin warned the new Simovic regime of the German attack forces, there was little that could be done to prevent the German invasion (Lampe
199). The Balkans largest air force had fewer than 500 planes, only 87 of which were modern fighters, and faced over 1,500 German aircraft dispatched from Nazi forces (Lampe
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