German commanders coordinate the improvised invasion
On 29 March, German army commanders and staffs met in Vienna under the direction of senior OKH planners to coordinate the hastily assembled Yugoslav campaign. Wilhelm List, Maximilian von Weichs and Ewald von Kleist were among the commanders whose forces had to fit into the new plan. The scheme divided the operational problem. Twelfth Army forces in Bulgaria would attack through Macedonia and sever Yugoslavia from Greece; Kleist’s First Panzer Group would later drive through the Niš–Morava corridor toward Belgrade; Second Army would attack from the north and northwest as…
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