Operation Prijedor

Operation Prijedor Part of World War II in Yugoslavia Date mid to late February 1942 Location northwest Bosnia Result Partisan withdrawal Belligerents Axis:  Germany  Independent State of Croatia Allies: Partisans Commanders and leaders Oberst Rudolf Wutte Strength around 5,000 troops 1,000 troops Casualties and losses

World War II in Yugoslavia Axis invasion June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina Uprising in Serbia (Loznica) (Banja Koviljača) Uzice (1st Offensive) Novi Pazar Mihailovic Sjenica Uprising in Montenegro (Pljevlja) Southeast Croatia (2nd Offensive) Prijedor Nanos Trio (3rd Offensive) 1942 Montenegro offensive (3rd Offensive) Kozara Kupres Alfa Dražgoše Livno Kočevje Case White (4th Offensive) Delphin Otto Halyard Case Black (5th Offensive) Turjak Castle Ožbalt Kugelblitz (6th Offensive) Maibaum Rösselsprung (7th Offensive) Belgrade Offensive Kosovo Syrmian Front Knin Mostar Lijevče Field Odžak Nagykanizsa–Körmend Poljana Niš Hungarian occupation Allied bombing campaign

Operation Prijedor was a German-Croatian joint counter-insurgency operation conducted around Prijedor in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. It targeted the Yugoslav Partisans that had isolated the garrison of Prijedor in Bosnia between late January and mid February 1942.

Operation

The operation was led by the German 750th Infantry Regiment of the 718th Infantry Division reinforced by a number of units of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH)(including several battalions of the Croatian Home Guard). It commenced in mid-February 1942 after Operation Ozren had concluded.^[1]

The Germans advanced south from Dubica towards Prijedor, where a German garrison battalion and a number of NDH units had been isolated by Partisan attacks on the railway lines in the surrounding area. The NDH units consisted of four infantry battalions, a gendarmerie battalion and artillery support, along with 29 companies of various types. The NDH units were used to guard the roads and effect a cordon around the area of the operation. The objective of the operation was achieved, and the garrison was relieved.^[1]

See also

• Seven anti-Partisan offensives
• Resistance during World War II
• Anti-partisan operations in World War II

Notes

References

• Hoare, Marko Attila (2006). Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941–1943. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0197263801. 
• Shepherd, Ben (2012). Terror in the Balkans:German Armies and Partisan Warfare. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04891-1. 
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• Popović, Koča (1988). Beleške uz ratovanje. BIGZ. ISBN 8613002900.