Battle of Želetava (Fall Grün)
From Alternative History
| Battle of Želetava | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date | October 18 - October 20, 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
| Result | Indecisive | ||||||||||||||||
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Battle of Želetava took place between October 21 and October 12, 1938 in the vicinity of the town of Želetava, Czechoslovakia.
At Želetava the 2. Gebirgs-Division encountered feroucious resistance from the Skupina 2 ”Jaromír”, under the command of Brig. Gen. František Slunečko. On October 18, the Germans ran into defensive lines set up on the hills around Želetava and begun firing their mortars and heavy machineguns on the advancing Gebirgsjägers, who were forced to retreat. On October 19, German artillery began shelling the hills around the village in order to disorganise the defences, but despite this they failed to capture the town again on October 20.
Div. Gen. Sergěj Ingr, commanding officer of III. sbor “Hálek”, seeing that Třebíč was now threatened by a German attack, ordered Skupina 2 to fall back to Třebíč and set up defensive position in the town and along the villages Stařeč-Čechočovice-Markvarice-Chlístov. He also ordered the 14. divize “Fibich”, under the command of Brig. Gen. Josef Zmek, to move out from its base in Třešť and reinforce their positions in Jihlava and its surroundings.
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The Border - Ostrava - Karlovy Vary - Otročín - Bezděkov - Želetava - Šumperk - Siege of Plzeň - Ivančice - Otnice, Bošovice and Velké Hostěrádky - Brno - Hungarian offensive - Bratislava - Michalovce - Košice - Frühlingserwachen - Olomouc - Siege of Prague | |||
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