XXI Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)

The XXI Mountain Corps was a German military formation in World War II.

At the beginning of November 1944 the XXI Mountain Corps retreated from Albania to Podgorica in Montenegro. In mid-November they tried to break through Danilovgrad and Nikšić toward Sarajevo, but Yugoslav partisan forces supported by two British artillery batteries, code-named Floydforce, stopped them after ten days fighting. At the end of November 1944 they had to retreat through a much longer route, via Kolašin, Prijepolje, and Višegrad.

Commanders

• Paul Bader (25 August 1943 – 10 October 1943)
• Gustav Fehn (10 October 1943 – 20 July 1944)
• Ernst von Leyser (20 July 1944 – 29 April 1945)
• Hartwig von Ludwiger (29 April 1945 – 8 May 1945)

Hartwig von Ludwiger was put on the trial after World War II and hanged in 1947.

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