FROM SERBIA TO THE OZAK: SS-GEBIRGSJÄGERAUSBILDUNG UND ERSATZ-BATAILLON 7 IN THE ADRIATIC LITTORAL
FROM SERBIA TO THE OZAK: SS-GEBIRGSJÄGERAUSBILDUNG UND ERSATZ-BATAILLON 7 IN THE ADRIATIC LITTORAL
Author(s): Klemen KocjančićSubject(s): Military history
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Waffen-SS; Banat; Primorska; OZAK; Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland; Adriatic Littoral; Ninth Corps of the NOV and POJ; Slovenian partisans; Serbia during Second World War; Slovenia during Secon
Summary/Abstract: Article is presenting a history of the 7th SS Mountain Training and Replacement Battalion, a Waffen-SS unit, which was formed in Serbia to train new recruits for the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, but was then moved to the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral. The battalion was stationed in the Italian-Slovenian border area, where it continued to train recruits, but also involved in limited counter-insurgency warfare against local partisans.
Journal: Vojnoistorijski glasnik
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 88-106
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
