TERROR IN THE BALKANS: German Armies and Partisan Warfare

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Germany's 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to an insurgency as bloody as any in World War II. The Wehrmacht waged a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in response, and by 1943 German troops in Yugoslavia were engaged in operations that ranked among the largest of the entire European war. Their actions encompassed massive reprisal shootings, the destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile operations unleashed not just against insurgents but also against the civilian population believed to be aiding them.

Includes: Before the Great War: Changes in the Officer Corps; Forging a Wartime Mentality: The Impact of World War I; Bridging Two Hells: The 1920s and 1930s; Invasion and Occupation: Yugoslavia, 1941; Islands in an Insurgent Sea: The 704th Infantry Division in Serbia; Settling Accounts in Blood: The 342nd Infantry Division in Serbia; Standing Divided: The Independent State of Croatia, 1942; Glimmers of Sanity: The 718th Infantry Division in Bosnia; The Morass: Attitudes Harden in the 718th Infantry Division; and The Devil's Division: The 369th Infantry Division in Bosnia, 1943.