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The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east.
Western Balkans 1942 and 2008. Please add a footnote crediting me if you are using this map. Date: 19 February 2008 (original upload date) Source: Own work
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Over December 1941 into early 1942, Allied forces pushed the Italian-German forces back through Libya to roughly the limit of the previous Operation Compass advance. Taking advantage of the Allied position, German and Italian forces counter-attacked and pushed back the Allies to Gazala, west of Tobruk.
German ethnographic map of Yugoslavia from 1940. Macedonians are shown as a separate community, claimed by Bulgarians and Serbs, but it is stated that they were generally counted among the Bulgarians. The Western Outlands are marked as inhabited by Bulgarians, and Morava Valley as a mixed area inhabited by Serbs and Bulgarians.
Map showing occupation zones in Vojvodina from 1941 to 1944. The Freedom Monument on the Fruška Gora, dedicated to the resistance movement in Vojvodina. The military occupation of the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina (now in Serbia) from 1941 to 1944 was carried out by Nazi Germany and its client states / puppet regimes: Horthy's Hungary and Independent State of Croatia.
Map of the Balkan military theater during September 1944 – January 1945. By August 1944, the Soviet Army was approaching the Balkans. In a last-minute attempt to create a buffer state against the incoming Red Army, on 29 August, the Germans attempted to establish an 'independent' Macedonian puppet state, [81] led by Ivan Mihailov.
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