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The Alpenveilchen company (also called Operation Alpenveilchen) was a planned German military operation in early 1941 to support Italy in the Greco-Italian War .
The plan was to support Italy with a German division in Albania. German military support was supposed to help Italy carry the war back across its borders to Greece. The OKW began on 11 January 1941, the preparation of plans for the preparation of Albania to sending expeditionary force. The plan to send several complete German divisions to Albania was rejected in the first planning phase, as it would then no longer be possible to supply the Italian troops. Instead, the 1st Mountain Division was deployed without heavy vehicles. The transport to Albania was no longer carried out. Due to the difficult supply situation and the small number of troops made available, the company was very controversial in Italy. This operation was also not carried out because the Germans started the Marita company in April 1941 and thus the Italians in the Kingdom of Albania forced the Greek armed forces to withdraw from Albania due to German attacks elsewhere , and thus Italy the front without German support could hold.
literature
- Mario Cervi, Storia della guerra di Grecia, Rizzoli, 2005, ISBN 88-17-86640-7 .
- Andrea Lombardi (a cura di), L'ultima Blitzkrieg - Le campagne della Wehrmacht nei Balcani: Jugoslavia, Grecia e Creta, aprile-maggio 1941, Genova, Effepi, 2008, SBN IT \ ICCU \ RAV \ 1713660.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b High Command of the Wehrmacht - Instruction 22c deutscher-historischer-jahrweiser.de
- ^ Ian Stanley Ord Playfair: The Mediterranean and Middle East: Volume I The Early Successes Against. 1954, pp. 51 and 72 ( online ).
- ^ Heinz A. Richter: Greece in the Second World War. Syndikat, 1997, p. 141 limited preview in the Google book search