XXI_Mountain_Corps_(Germany)

XXI Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)

XXI Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)

Military unit

The XXI Mountain Corps was a German military formation in World War II.

Quick Facts Country, 1943—44 ...

At the beginning of November 1944 the XXI Mountain Corps retreated from Albania to Podgorica in Montenegro.[1] In mid-November they tried to break through Danilovgrad and Nikšić toward Sarajevo, but Yugoslav partisan forces supported by two British artillery batteries, code-named Floydforce, stopped them after ten days fighting.[1] At the end of November 1944 they had to retreat through a much longer route, via Kolašin, Prijepolje, and Višegrad.[1]

Commanders

Hartwig von Ludwiger was put on the trial after World War II and hanged in 1947.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Pajović 1977, p. 518.
  2. [2]
    Mitcham 2010, p. 296.
  3. [3]
    MacLean, French L. (1996). Quiet Flows the Rhine: German General Officer Casualties in World War II. J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing. ISBN 978-0-921991-32-8.

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