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Sarajevo Operation | |||||||
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Part of World War II in Yugoslavia | |||||||
3rd Yugoslav Partisans' Corps enter liberated Sarajevo, 6 April 1945 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Yugoslav Partisans Green Cadres (paramilitary) |
Germany Independent State of Croatia Chetniks | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Radovan Vukanović Pero Kosorić Slavko Rodić Vladimir Perić † | Ernst von Leyser | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
38,000 men (5000-18,000 Zeleni Kader/Green Caders) | 50,000 men of which 35,000 Germans | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
637 killed 2,020 wounded |
5,700 killed and wounded 6,000 prisoners |
The Sarajevo Operation was an operation by the Yugoslav Partisan Army which led to the liberation of Sarajevo and Central Bosnia in March-April 1945.