By K. Mikulan
On April sixth, the German 2d and twelfth Armies, Italian 2d and ninth Armies, and the Hungarian 4th, fifth and cellular Corps invaded Yugoslavia from Italy, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. Few of the Royal Yugoslav Army's 30 divisions actively resisted, and after eleven days the Yugoslav excessive Command surrendered. In Croatia, a puppet kingdom used to be put in. Axis forces fast occupied the central cities and patrolled the most highway and rail hyperlinks, yet within the villages, geographical region and mountains, a vicious and complicated guerrilla conflict used to be brewing. This identify takes a detailed examine the German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Slovenian devices that fought for the Axis powers in Yugoslavia in the course of international struggle II.
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