XXI Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)

Country Germany
1943—44Paul Bader
1 August 1944 — 29 April 1945Ernst Von Leyser
29 April 1945 — 8 May 1945Hartwig von Ludwiger

The XXI Mountain Corps was a German military formation in World War II.

At the beginning of November 1944 the XXI Mountain Corps retreated from Albania to Podgorica in Montenegro. In mid-November they tried to break through Danilovgrad and Nikšić toward Sarajevo, but Yugoslav partisan forces supported by two British artillery batteries, code-named Floydforce, stopped them after ten days fighting. At the end of November 1944 they had to retreat through a much longer route, via Kolašin, Prijepolje, and Višegrad.

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