Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Oshima quotes him on this as saying: “[The Allies] have two courses: either they will go north in Italy or they will try to land in the Balkans. I am inclined to believe they will take the latter course. I am going to concentrate German troops between Naples and Rome for the time being, and if the Allies go into the Balkans, I will immediately take the initiative. “On the Italian mainland, we will have to use about eighteen German divisions at the front line, in addition to troops needed to maintain peace and order in the rear. In the Balkans our forces amount to twenty divisions. We are now laying siege to the islands along the Dalmatian coast. I feel fairly certain that we can make Dalmatia ours.”