Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece
1941 · Event
Germany overruns Yugoslavia in eleven days and Greece in three weeks after a Belgrade coup defies Hitler; the Balkan detour delays Barbarossa and ignites brutal occupation wars.
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