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          OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES
               WASHINGTON. D. C.
 
 
                           SUMMARY
          JUGOSLAVIA AND THE PARTISANS
               I.     MILITARY INFORMATION
 
          The Partisans now have about 300,000 troops in the field, including women, and children
as young as fourteen. These forces, which are disposed throughout Jugoslavia, but operate under
Tito's central command, are divided into 11 army corps and 3 army commands, and sub-divided
into divisions, brigades, etc. Armed with pistols, rifles, sub-machine guns and hand grenades, they
engage in skirmishes and demolition, killing Germans and blowing up German equipment. They
have no fixed lines, nor can they hold fixed lines against German troops and German armor, unless
differently trained and equipped.
     Opposing the Partisans are about 200,000 German troops, consisting
17 divisions averaging 10,000 men each and 40 garrisons averaeing 700 men each; also 100,000
Hungarian troops; 120,000 Bulgarian troops; 20,000 Ustashi; 110,000 Domobran, and 60,
Cetniks, Rupniks, etc. The Axis forces hold all the principal cities in Jugoslavia and all of the main
lines of communication between them.They are able to travel at will in the country (provided they
travel in force), and to maintain two north-south communication routes from the
Austro-Hungarian frontier through Jugoslavia and Albania down  into Greece.
They are also able to extract from Jugoslavia limited amouuts of food,                                
cooper, chrome, and other native resources. But they are prevented by the actions of the Partisans
from enjoying the full, or anthers near the full, material benefits that otherwise would be available
to them.
 
     The Partisans control most of the Jugoslavia area outside the
hence they are able to Drovide territory well located for the British and American intelligence
activities both within and beyond the borders of Jugoslavia.
                    II. ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
 
              Although Jugoslavia hs.s abundant and varied resources ordinarily more than sufficient
for the support of the population, the people of Jugoslavia are now in acute need of almost
everything, and have been for a long time. Food, clothing, military equipment, are all needed, and
there are no reserves of any kind to speak of. The medical situation is typical. Anaesthetics
and drugs are practically non-existent; suitable food for the sick is unobtainable; and
even bandages are so scarce that they are used over and over again, and are merely washed in
cold water before shifted from one paitient to the next.
 
     A British medical officer who has travelled the country extensively for ten months, thinksit
is extremely doubtful, on medicalgrounds, whether the  Partisans will have the physical capacity to
resist throughout another
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