as the Operation Kugelblitz (Ball Lightning), a series of operations undertaken by the Wehrmacht and the NDH military after the capitulation of Italy (Armistice of Cassibile) in an attempt to secure the Adriatic Sea coast. It took place in the autumn and winter of 1943/44. The Seventh Enemy Offensive, the final attack in western Bosnia in the spring of 1944, which included Operation Rösselsprung (Knight's Leap), an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate Josip Broz Tito personally and annihilate the leadership of the Partisan movement, located in Drvar. By the end of the seventh offensive, the greater part of Yugoslavia was securely in partisan hands. Interpretations Maps of operations See also Resistance during World War II Anti-partisan operations in World War II References External links German Antiguerrilla Operations in the Balkans (1941–1944) Battles and operations of World War II Yugoslavia in World War II Eastern European theatre of World War II Anti-partisan operations of World War II Military operations of World War II involving Germany