Italian Black Shirt battalion entering Yugoslavia

Battaglione italiano Camicie Nere entra in Jugoslavia

Croatian Legionaries and Blackshirts. The legionnaire in the center wears the uniform of the Croatian Army with the legion insignia and the Italian cap with the legionnaire emblem. The legionnaire on the right wears the Italian uniform.

Legionari croati e camicie nere. Il legionario al centro indossa l'uniforme dell'esercito croato con le insegne della legione e il berretto italiano con l'emblema legionario. Il legionario a destra indossa l'uniforme italiana.

Today, In 1941 the Invasion of Yugoslavia also known as the April war (Travanjski rat) started, and with it one of the most destructive bombing campaign Serbia had ever seen before, Operation Punishment or the Bombing of Belgrade perpetrated by the Luftwaffe completely paralysed the communication between the Yugoslav army headquarters and the Yugoslav army making the army rapidly collapse due to it, during the bombing campaign Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Vojvodina were completely spared instead on these areas propaganda leaflets were dropped telling them to betray their serbian overseers and join the axis and so they did, Slovenes, Macedonians, Croats and Albanians conscripted to a army that wanted to genocide them deserted In droves. And this all was possible because of Vladimir Kren a Croatian major general who had defected to the Third Reich and told the locations of military assets and divulged the Yugoslav Air force codes.
Footage of the bombing

Member of the National Republican Guard, 1943

Membro della Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, 1943

Italian expeditionary forces marching through snow on the Eastern front

Le forze di spedizione italiane marciano sulla neve sul fronte orientale

Bersaglieri In Kosovo during Operation "Marita" against Yugoslavia, many Albanian volunteers joined the operation and we're attached to Italian fighting units

Bersaglieri In Kosovo durante l'operazione "Marita" contro la Jugoslavia, molti volontari albanesi si unirono all'operazione e siamo aggregati ai reparti combattenti italiani

Italian SS Legion being inspected-by SS General Karl Wolf along with Field Marshall Graziani the Minister of Defence of the RSI.

La Legione SS Italiana viene ispezionata dal generale delle SS Karl Wolf insieme al maresciallo di campo Graziani, ministro della Difesa della RSI.