Operation 25. Members of the Bicycle Squadron, 183rd Infantry Division, heading towards Ptuj through one of the nearby villages, 8 April 1941. In the meantime, in the town itself, acts of sabotage are being carried out by members of the so-called Illegal Company, an ethnic German unit secretly formed a few years before the war, and trained for sabotage and military operations. Ptuj was captured on the same day, at half past two in the afternoon.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: Weber, 649th Propaganda Company.
Date: 8 April 1941.
Location: unknown (district of Ptuj), Yugoslavia.
Original caption: "Through abandoned villages and over muddy roads, a strong bicycle reconnaissance team heads towards the city of Ptuj on the Drava, which it captured after a brief, but fierce battle."
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Operacija 25. Pripadnici biciklističkog eskadrona 183. pešadijske divizije nastupaju prema Ptuju kroz jedno od okolnih sela, 8. aprila 1941. godine. Za to vreme, u samom gradu sabotaže vrše pripadnici tzv. Ilegalne čete, folksdojčerske jedinice tajno formirane nekoliko godina pre rata, i obučavane za sabotaže i vojne akcije. Ptuj je zauzet istog dana, u pola tri popodne.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: Veber, 649. propagandna četa.
Datum: 8. april 1941.
Mesto: nepoznato (srez Ptujski), Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: "Kroz napuštena sela i po blatnjavim putevima, јака biciklistička izvidnica nastupa prema gradu Ptuju na Dravi, koji je zauzela posle kraće, ali žestoke borbe."
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