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XV Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)

XV Mountain Corps
Active1943–45
Country Germany
BranchArmy
TypeMountain
Rolecounter-insurgency
SizeCorps
EngagementsOperation Rösselsprung
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Ernst von Leyser
Gustav Fehn

The XV Mountain Corps was a German military formation that commanded German forces conducting counter-insurgency operations against the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.

It was formed in the Balkans from the staff of the German commander in Croatia (German: Militärbefehlshabers in Kroatien) on 12 August 1943.[3] It was subordinated to the 2nd Panzer Army.

In May 1944, the corps was responsible for the conduct of Operation Rösselsprung, which was aimed at killing the Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito. The corps was effectively destroyed in Partisan Lika-Primorje operation. Remnants of the corps surrendered to the Partisans on 8 May 1945, and Fehn and many of the remaining men of the corps were subsequently killed by the Yugoslav authorities.

Notes

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  1. ^ Bishop 2008, p. 58.
  2. ^ Mitcham 2007, p. 200.
  3. ^ Mitcham 2007b, p. 237.

Bibliography

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  • Bishop, Chris (2008). German Infantry in World War II. London: Amber Books. ISBN 978-0-760331-87-3.
  • Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007). The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-811733-71-7.
  • Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007b). German Order of Battle, Volume 3: Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in WWII. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-811734-38-7.

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