Belgrade Offensive

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The Belgrade Offensive was a major World War II military operation in autumn 1944 in which Yugoslav Partisans, with Soviet support, liberated the city of Belgrade from German occupation.

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Label Occurrences
Belgrade Offensive canonical 3
Battles for Belgrade 1
Belgrade Operation 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II battle
military offensive
alsoKnownAs Belgrade Offensive
surface form: Belgrade Operation
belligerent Red Army
SS
Serbian collaborationist forces
Wehrmacht
Yugoslav Partisans
casualties heavy on both sides
commander Alexander Löhr
Draža Mihailović
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Josip Broz Tito
Maximilian von Weichs
conductedBy Yugoslav Partisans
surface form: National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia

Red Army
surface form: Soviet Red Army
conflict World War II
countryInvolved Germany
Independent State of Croatia
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
dateOfLiberationOfBelgrade 1944-10-20
endDate 1944-10-20
followedBy Syrmian Front operations
involvedUnit Soviet 4th Guards Mechanized Corps
Soviet 57th Army
Yugoslav 12th Corps
Yugoslav 1st Proletarian Corps
location Belgrade
German-occupied Serbia
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
surface form: Kingdom of Yugoslavia
notableFor cooperation between Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans
urban fighting in Belgrade
objective liberation of Belgrade
opposedBy German Army Group F
surface form: German Army Group E

German Army Group F
partOf Eastern Front of World War II
Yugoslav Front (World War II)
surface form: Yugoslav Front of World War II
precededBy Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944
Soviet advance into Central Europe
surface form: Soviet advance through Romania
result Allied victory
liberation of Belgrade from German occupation
startDate 1944-09-28
strategicConsequence disruption of German retreat from Greece
strengthening of Partisan control in Yugoslavia
weakening of German position in the Balkans
supportedBy Bulgarian Army
Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front
theater Balkan theatre of World War II
typeOf combined Soviet–Yugoslav operation

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Yugoslav Partisans notableEvent Belgrade Offensive
Balkan theatre of World War II hasPart Belgrade Offensive
Battle of Belgrade (1688) isPartOfSeries Belgrade Offensive
this entity surface form: Battles for Belgrade
Belgrade Offensive alsoKnownAs Belgrade Offensive
this entity surface form: Belgrade Operation