Axis occupation of Yugoslavia

World War II in Yugoslavia

Part of World War II

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Clockwise from top left: Ante Pavelić visits Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, Stjepan Filipović hanged by the occupation forces, Draža Mihailović confers with his troops, a group of Chetniks with German soldiers in a village in Serbia, Josip Broz Tito with members of the British mission

Date	6 April 1941 – 15 May 1945 (4 years, 1 month, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Yugoslavia
Result	Allied victory

Belligerents

April 1941:

April 1941:

1941–43:

NDH

1941–43:

1941–43:

1943–45:
Germany
NDH
VNS (until 1944)
Hungary
Bulgaria (until 1944)
Albania (until 1944)
Slovene Home Guard
(1943–45)
Pećanac Chetniks

1943–45:
Partisans
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
(1944–45)

Bulgaria
(1944–45)

Albania (1944–45)

United States (limited involvement)

Commanders and leaders

Maximilian von Weichs
Alexander Löhr
(POW)
Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
Mario Roatta
Miklós Horthy
Ante Pavelić
Slavko Kvaternik
Milan Nedić
Kosta Pećanac †
Leon Rupnik
Bogdan Filov

Dušan Simović
Danilo Kalafatović

Draža Mihailović
Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
Dobroslav Jevđević
Pavle Đurišić
Momčilo Đujić
Zaharije Ostojić
Petar Baćović
Vojislav Lukačević

Jezdimir Dangić

Josip Broz Tito
Mihajlo Apostolski
Milovan Đilas
Aleksandar Ranković
Kosta Nađ
Peko Dapčević
Koča Popović
Petar Drapšin
Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo
Arso Jovanović
Sava Kovačević †
Ivan Gošnjak
Boris Kidrič
Franc Rozman Stane †
Fyodor Tolbukhin

Vladimir Stoychev

Strength

300,000 (1944)
321,000 (1943)
170,000 (1943)
130,000 (1945)
40,000 (1943)
70,000 (1943)

12,000 (1944)

93,000 (1943)

100,000 (1943)
800,000 (1945)

580,000 (1944)

Casualties and losses

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