Lothar Rendulic
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Lothar Rendulic was an Austrian army group commander and war criminal in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1995 027 32A, Lothar Rendulic
Lothar Rendulic is sentenced in the Hostage Case USHMM No 16808
Operation Rösselsprung was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationist forces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Bosnian town
Lothar Rendulic
…II in Yugoslavia. Early in 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered Rendulic to devise a plan to capture Yugoslav partisan leader Josip Broz Tito. In the resultant raid on Drvar on 25 May 1944, German paratroopers stormed partisan Supreme Headquarters in Drvar (western Bosnia) looking for Tito but ultimately failed to capture…
Marshal Josip Broz Tito (furthest right) with his cabinet and principal staff officers in Drvar, days before the offensive.
The deployment of Partisan forces around Drvar is shown in red, with German movements shown in blue
SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny apparently did not pass on crucial information about the location of Tito's cave in Drvar
Luftwaffe DFS230 glider as used for troop insertion during Operation Rösselsprung