Kammala wannan jumla: Daga 5/6 Janairu 1941 I./StG 1 ya shirya daga St Malo zuwa Graz a Austria. A ranar 23 ga watan Janairu, "rukunin" Hitschhold ya koma filin jirgin sama a Otopeni, arewacin Bucharest a Romania. Hitschold ya koma Kraynitsi, kudu maso yammacin Sofia a Bulgaria. Ranar 6 ga watan Afrilu kungiyar ta tattara Ju 87s 39 don ayyukan. A wannan ranar ta goyi bayan ayyukan "Fliegerkorps" VIII a cikin mamayewar Yugoslavia da Yaƙin Girka. Ya yi ruwan bama-bamai a cikin Petric kuma ya taka rawa a Yaƙin Layin Metaxas. Hitschhold na iya shiga cikin
Operation Retribution, da harin bama-bamai da kuma lalata tsakiyar Belgrade.