The 'Sarajevska Operacija' was a Yugoslav operation by the forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito to surround, isolate and liberate a large area round Sarajevo in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (28 March/10 April 1945).

Under the command of the Operative Headquarters were the Yugoslav II, III and V Corps, the 11^th and 13^th 'Krajina' and 18^th 'Central Bosnia' Brigades, an artillery brigade and a tank company. Sarajevo and the area round it were held by strong German and Croat forces under the tactical command of Generalleutnant Albrecht Baier’s XXI Gebirgskorps, which controlled the 38,000 German troops of Generalleutnant Eugen Bleyer’s 181^st Division, Generalleutnant Georg Reinicke’s 369^th Division, SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS August Schmidhuber’s 7^th SS Gebirgsdivision 'Prinz Eugen', the 909^th Festungsbrigade, the 964^th Festungsbrigade, the 969^th Festungsbrigade, the SS Polizeiregiment 'Nagel', the 803^rd, 834^th, 920^th and 935^th Landesschützenbataillone and elements of the 5^th Regiment of Generalleutnant Boris Shteifon’s Russisches Schutzkorps; Croat forces in the form of the 1^st, 9^th, 11^th and 18^th Ustase Brigades, remnants of General Bozidar Zorn’s 9^th Mountain Division and 2^nd Mountain Brigade, remnants of the Četnik 'Romanja', 'Zenica' and 'Herzegovina' Corps; and a number of smaller units including the remnants of the Italian Legione 'San Marco' and two Italian Fascist battalions.

The German plan of 22 February for the defence of Yugoslavia named Sarajevo as fortified city which could be abandoned on with the express permission of Adolf Hitler. The details of the plan were stolen by a team of Yugoslav agents led by Vladimir Perić Valter, leading to mass arrests, including those of 25 German and 150 Croat soldiers, and the suicide of Oberstleutnant Vedel, the German chief-of-staff, in whose safe the plan had been kept. By 20 March the failure of the German forces in Hungary and the start of the 'Ličko-Primorska Operacija' by the Yugoslav 4^th Army in Lika had made the further retention of Sarajevo pointless, and the Germans ordered a retreat to the north, starting with the evacuation of some 3,000 wounded German soldiers.

Their interception of Yugoslav radio communications revealed to the Germans that the Yugoslav offensive was planned for 28 March, and in order to secure their retreat routes the Germans planned and carried out several operations including 'Berggeist', 'Maigewitter' (iii) and 'Osterglocke'.

Even so, there was heavy fighting before the liberation of Sarajevo on 6 April, and during its pursuit of the retreating Axis forces the Yugoslav formations liberated Visoko, Kakanj and, on 10 April, Busovača.