Hitler's Forgotten Blitz: The Nazi Conquest of Yugoslavia
German forces overran Yugoslavia rapidly in the Spring of 1941. Here's What You Need to Know: In his furious determination to obliterate Yugoslavia, Hitler delayed the invasion of the Soviet Union -- and very likely brought about his own self-destruction. It was the most exciting scene Associated Press correspondent Robert St. John had yet witnessed in the career he had abandoned for five years to farm in New Hampshire then returned to when he sensed that war was coming. It was March 27, 1941, and Terrazia, the Times Square of Belgrade, capital of what was then Yugoslavia, was packed with cr...
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