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Syrmian Front

The Syrmian Front (Serbo-Croatian: Srijemski front/Sremski front) was an Axis line of defense during World War II. It was established as part of the Eastern Front in late October 1944 in Syrmia and east Slavonia, northwest of Belgrade.

After the Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army expelled the Germans from Belgrade in the Belgrade Offensive, the retreating Wehrmacht and the Croatian Armed Forces used fortifications to protect the withdrawal of German Army Group E from the Balkans. With help from their Soviet allies, the Partisans (by then recognized as the Yugoslav army), joined by Bulgarian and Italian forces, fought a difficult winter campaign and finally broke through the front on 12 April 1945.


After the Syrmian front was broken, occupied Yugoslavia was liberated.[3]

Đilas, Milovan (1977). Wartime. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.  0-15-694712-9.

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BIGZ, Belgrade 1979 (in Serbian)

Ljubivoje Pajović, Dušan Uzelac, Milovan Dželebdžić: Sremski Front 1944–1945

Pavlowitch, S.K. (2008). Hitler's New Disorder: the Second World War in Yugoslavia. New York: Columbia University Press.  978-0-231-70050-4.

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Trifković, Gaj (2016). . Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift. 75 (1): 94–122. doi:10.1515/mgzs-2016-0004. S2CID 132224010.

"Carnage in the Land of Three Rivers: The Syrmian Front 1944–1945"

Trifković, Gaj (January 2018). "The Yugoslav Partisans' Lost Victories: Operations in Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1944–1945". The Journal of Military History. 82 (1): 95–124.  0899-3718.

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