Comments on: Invasion of Yugoslavia: Waffen SS Captain Fritz Klingenberg and the Capture of Belgrade During World War II http://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-yugoslavia-waffen-ss-captain-fritz-klingenberg-and-the-capture-of-belgrade-during-world-war-ii.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=invasion-of-yugoslavia-waffen-ss-captain-fritz-klingenberg-and-the-capture-of-belgrade-during-world-war-ii From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:36:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Rob Fitzgibbon http://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-yugoslavia-waffen-ss-captain-fritz-klingenberg-and-the-capture-of-belgrade-during-world-war-ii.htm#comment-784840 Rob Fitzgibbon Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:01:37 +0000 #comment-784840 This article is poorly researched and poorly written. Colin Heaton omits the role that Col. Rudolf Toussaint, the German military attache to Belgrade, played in the city's surrender. Incredibly, many sentences in this article contain multiple errors, for example: "The Germans left 10 of their infantry divisions, two SS units and one auxiliary SS unit, the 13th Waffen SS Handschar (or Scimitar) Division, as a garrison force of occupation in Yugoslavia. " - There was no "Yugoslavia" to occupy - Hitler dismembered the country into various zones of ocuupation and the Nazi puppet state of Croatia. - The 13th SS wasn't "left" there by the Germans after the spring of 1941 - it was raised in Bosnia in the spring of 1943. - The 13th SS wasn't a "auxiliary" SS division but a full-fledged Waffen-SS division. - This article is poorly researched and poorly written.

Colin Heaton omits the role that Col. Rudolf Toussaint, the German military attache to Belgrade, played in the city's surrender.

Incredibly, many sentences in this article contain multiple errors, for example:

"The Germans left 10 of their infantry divisions, two SS units and one auxiliary SS unit, the 13th Waffen SS Handschar (or Scimitar) Division, as a garrison force of occupation in Yugoslavia. "

- There was no "Yugoslavia" to occupy – Hitler dismembered the country into various zones of ocuupation and the Nazi puppet state of Croatia.

- The 13th SS wasn't "left" there by the Germans after the spring of 1941 – it was raised in Bosnia in the spring of 1943.

- The 13th SS wasn't a "auxiliary" SS division but a full-fledged Waffen-SS division.

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