Liberation 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
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| Belligerents |
April 1941:
 Germany
 Italy
 Hungary
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April 1941:
 Yugoslavia
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1941–43:
Germany
Italy
 NDH
 VNS
 CG
Hungary
 Bulgaria
 Albania
 Pećanac Chetniks
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1941–43:
Chetniks
Supported by:
 United Kingdom
 United States
|
1941–43:
 Partisans
Supported by:
 Soviet Union
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1943–45:
Germany
NDH
VNS (until 1944)
CG (until 1944)
Hungary
Bulgaria (until 1944)
 Albania (until 1944)
 Slovene Home Guard
Chetniks
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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
Sekula Drljević
Kosta Pećanac †
Leon Rupnik
Bogdan Filov
 Xhemo Hasa †
|
Dušan Simović
Danilo Kalafatović
Draža Mihailović
Ilija Trifunović-Birčanin
Dobroslav Jevđević
Pavle Đurišić 
Momčilo Đujić
Zaharije Ostojić
Petar Baćović
Vojislav Lukačević
Jezdimir Dangić
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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
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| Strength |
|
300,000 (1944)
321,000 (1943)
170,000 (1943)
130,000 (1945)
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