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Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War Two podcast episode 114 Operation Marita part two.

Last time Hitler in order to secure the oil fields of Ploesti in southern Romania and to pull

Mussolini's chestnuts out of the fire in Greece and to secure his southern flank from the Allies,

especially with his invasion of Russia on the horizon, invaded Yugoslavia and Greece on April 6, 1941.

The well-trained and battle-hardened German troops were able to make short work of Yugoslavia's defenses.

The overwhelmed country relented on April 17.

Its young king just 17 years old took flight and eventually ended up in London.

In Greece, Hitler's Operation Marita was moving along equally well.

In the Greek Northeast to the east of Macedonia, the Matexus Line had fallen by April 9.

On that same day General Matlin Wilson, commander of the BEF in Greece, had decided to withdraw

from the Alekman Line in central northern Greece and pull back to the south, just north of Mount Olympus.

This was mostly due to the utter disintegration of Yugoslavia's defenses in their southern theater.

Now that the Germans had free range in the Strumaca and monastery sectors in the south,

this would allow them to pour into Greece, to the west of the Alekman Line's end point and attack it

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