The Balkan Campaign
- Italians decide to try and establish themselves by attacking the Greeks
- They are unsuccessful
- Choose bad time of year in October
- Germans have to bail them out ‘Operation Marita’
- Also attack Yugoslavia with ‘Operation Punishment’
- Detrimental because it delays Operation Barbarossa, the attack on Russia
The Italians tried to attack the Greek then the Germans had to bail out the Italians because their army was feeble at best.