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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:
 Germany
 Italy
 Hungary
 Bulgaria
April 1941:
 Yugoslavia
 
1941–43:
 Germany
 Italy
 NDH
VNS
 Hungary
 Bulgaria
1941–43:
Chetniks
1941–43:
Partisans

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


Chetniks

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

Bulgaria
(1944–45)
Albania (1944–45)
 United States (limited involvement)
Commanders and leaders

Nazi Germany Maximilian von Weichs
Nazi Germany Alexander Löhr
 (POW)
Nazi Germany Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
Kingdom of Italy Mario Roatta
Miklós Horthy
Ante Pavelić
Slavko Kvaternik
Milan Nedić
Kosta Pećanac  
Leon Rupnik
Kingdom of Bulgaria Bogdan Filov

Albania Xhemo Hasa 

Kingdom of Yugoslavia Dušan Simović
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Danilo Kalafatović


Draža Mihailović
Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
Dobroslav Jevđević
Pavle Đurišić Executed
Momčilo Đujić
Zaharije Ostojić Executed
Petar Baćović Executed
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 
Soviet Union Fyodor Tolbukhin

Vladimir Stoychev
Strength

Nazi Germany 300,000 (1944)
Kingdom of Italy 321,000 (1943)
170,000 (1943)
130,000 (1945)
40,000 (1943)
Kingdom of Bulgaria 70,000 (1943)

12,000 (1944)
93,000 (1943)

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

Soviet Union 580,000 (1944)
Casualties and losses

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