XV Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)


The XV Mountain Corps was a German military formation that commanded German forces conducting counter-insurgency operations against the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.
It was formed in the Balkans from the staff of the German commander in Croatia on 12 August 1943. It was subordinated to the 2nd Panzer Army.
In May 1944, the corps was responsible for the conduct of Operation Rösselsprung, which was aimed at killing the Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito. The corps was effectively destroyed in Partisan Lika-Primorje operation. Remnants of the corps surrendered to the Partisans on 8 May 1945, and Fehn and many of the remaining men of the corps were subsequently killed by the Yugoslav authorities.

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