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Army Group North Ukraine
The Army Group North Ukraine (german: Heeresgruppe Nordukraine) was a major formation of the German army in World War II. History It was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South under Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model. In April 1944 it consisted of 1st Panzer Army and 4th Panzer Army. In the summer of 1944 it opposed the Red Army's 1st Ukrainian Front during the Lvov-Sandomir strategic offensive operation (13 July - 29 August 1944). In August 1944 the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army defended between Carpathian mountains and the Pripyet swamps in Galicia. In September 1944 it was renamed to Army Group A. Order of battle The composition of the Army Group on 15 July 1944 was: * 4th Panzer Army ** XXXXVI Panzer Corps ** XXXXII Corps ** LVI Panzer Corps ** VIII Corps * 1st Panzer Army ** LIX Corps ** XXIV Panzer Corps ** XXXXVIII Panzer Corps ** III Panzer Corps ** 20th Panzer Grenadier Division ** 14th SS Grenadier Division * 1st Hungarian Army ** VI Hungarian C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Group
An army group is a military organization consisting of several field armies, which is self-sufficient for indefinite periods. It is usually responsible for a particular geographic area. An army group is the largest field organization handled by a single commander – usually a full general or field marshal – and it generally includes between 400,000 and 1,000,000 soldiers. In the Polish Armed Forces and former Soviet Red Army an army group was known as a Front. The equivalent of an army group in the Imperial Japanese Army was a "general army" (). Army groups may be multi-national formations. For example, during World War II, the Southern Group of Armies (also known as the U.S. 6th Army Group) comprised the U.S. Seventh Army and the French First Army; the 21st Army Group comprised the British Second Army, the Canadian First Army and the US Ninth Army. In both Commonwealth and U.S. usage, the number of an army group is expressed in Arabic numerals (e.g., "12th Army Group"), wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
XXXXII Army Corps (XXXXII. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II. Commanders * General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze, 29 January 1940 – 24 October 1941 * Generalleutnant (''Major General'') Hans Graf von Sponeck, 24 October 1941 – 29 October 1941 * General der Infanterie (''Lieutenant General'') Bruno Bieler, 29 October 1941 – November 1941 * Generalleutnant (''Major General'') Hans Graf von Sponeck, November 1941 – 1 January 1942 * General der Infanterie (''Lieutenant General'') Franz Mattenklott, 1 January 1942 – 22 June 1943 * General der Infanterie (''Lieutenant General'') Anton Dostler, 22 June 1943 – July 1943 * General der Infanterie (''Lieutenant General'') Franz Mattenklott, July 1943 – January 1944 * Generalleutnant Theo-Helmut Lieb (''acting''), January 1944 – March 1944 (Corps destroyed) * General der Infanterie (''Lieutenant General'') Franz Mattenklott, 15 March 1944 – 14 June 1944 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Busse
Ernst Hermann August Theodor Busse (15 December 1897 – 21 October 1986) was a German officer during World War I and World War II. Early life and career Busse, a native of Frankfurt (Oder), joined the Imperial German Army as an officer cadet in 1915 and was commissioned in February 1917. He also won the Knight's Cross with Swords of the Hohenzollern Order. After the armistice, he was accepted as one of 2,000 officers into the new Reichswehr in which he steadily rose in rank. World War II Busse was a General Staff officer in April 1939 and prepared a training program that was approved by the Chief of the General Staff in August and covered a period from 1 October 1939 to 30 September 1940. Between 1940 and 1942, he served as the Chief of Operations to General (later Field Marshal) Erich von Manstein in the 11th Army on the Eastern Front. He remained serving on von Manstein's staff from 1942 to 1943 as Chief of Operations of Army Group Don and then from 1943 to 1944 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Harpe
Josef Harpe (21 September 1887 – 14 March 1968) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 9th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany. Harpe served on the Eastern Front, where he commanded XXXXI Panzer Corps and the 9th Army. From September 1944 to January 1945 Army Group A, when he was relieved of his command due to the inability of German forces to stop the Soviet Vistula–Oder Offensive. He ended the war commanding the 5th Panzer Army on Western Front. Harpe was also responsible for establishing the Ozarichi death camps, which is considered by historians to be one of the worst atrocities committed by the Wehrmacht. Military career and war crimes Harpe joined the Prussian Army on 28 September 1909 and fought in World War I. After the war, Harpe remained in the Reichswehr military service. In 1931, under the pseudonym ''Direktor Hacker'', he held a position in the secret German-Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th Waffen Grenadier Division Of The SS (2nd Latvian)
__NOTOC__ The 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) (german: 19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lettische Nr. 2), lv, 19. SS grenadieru divīzija (latviešu Nr. 2)) was an infantry division of the Waffen-SS during World War II. It was the second Latvian division formed in January 1944, after its sister unit, the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) with which it formed the Latvian Legion. It was surrounded in the Courland Pocket at the end of the war where it surrendered to the Red Army. The division was formed in January 1944, from 2 SS Infantry Brigades with the addition of a newly raised third regiment, Waffen Grenadier Regiment 46 (Latvian No. 6). Simultaneously, the designations of the two other grenadier regiments were changed from 39 and 40 to 42 and 43 respectively. The commander of the SS brigade, SS-Oberführer Hinrich Schuldt became the first commander of the division. After Schuldt was killed in action on 15 March 1944, SS-Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
German XI. Corps (XI. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II. Commanders * Artillery General (''General der Artillerie'') Emil Leeb, 1 September 1939 – 1 March 1940 * Infantry General (''General der Infanterie'') Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 1 March 1940 – 6 October 1941 * Infantry General (''General der Infanterie'') Eugen Ott, 6 October 1941 – 10 December 1941 * Infantry General (''General der Infanterie'') Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 10 December 1941 – 1 June 1942 * Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') Karl Strecker, 1 June 1942 – 2 February 1943 After reformation * Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') Erhard Raus, 10 February 1943 – 1 November 1943 * Artillery General (''General der Artillerie'') Wilhelm Stemmermann, 5 December 1943 – 18 February 1944 * Infantry General (''General der Infanterie'') Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1944 – 16 March 1945 * Artillery General (''General der Artillerie'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Hungarian Army
The Hungarian First Army was a field army of the Royal Hungarian Army that saw action during World War II. Commanders * Lieutenant-General Vilmos Nagy - March 1, 1940 – February 1, 1941 * Lieutenant-General István Schweitzer - February 1, 1941 – August 1, 1942 * Lieutenant-General István Náday - August 1, 1942 – April 1, 1944 * Lieutenant-General Géza Lakatos - April 1, 1944 – May 15, 1944 * Lieutenant-General Károly Beregfy - May 15, 1944 – August 1, 1944 * Lieutenant-General Ferenc Farkas de Kisbarnak - July 25, 1944 – August 1, 1944 (acting) * Lieutenant-General Béla Miklós von Dalnoki - August 1, 1944 – October 16, 1944 * Lieutenant-General Dezső László - October 16, 1944 – May 8, 1945 Background Under Hungarian Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, Hungary was an Axis state at the beginning of the European conflict. On 1 March 1940, the Hungarian Army formed three field armies. All three Hungarian armies saw action on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th SS Grenadier Division
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (german: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS alizische Nr. 1}; uk, 14а Гренадерська Дивізія СС (1а галицька)), known as the 14th SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia" (german: 14. SS-Freiwilligen Division "Galizien", uk, 14а Добровільна Дивізія СС "Галичина") prior to 1944, was a World War II German military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia,Williamson Gordon, SS Hitler's Instrument of Terror, Amber books 1994, pp.123–4 later also with some Slovaks. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the battle of Brody, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945. Background After World War I and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Panzer Grenadier Division
The German 20th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany. History The was established in 1934 under the cover name ''Reichswehrdienststelle Hamburg'', and did not assume its bona-fide designation until the creation of the Wehrmacht was announced in October 1935. In the autumn of 1937 it was upgraded to a fully motorized division.Most German divisions during the World War II era had no transport for the infantry and used horses to tow their artillery; German industry could not turn out sufficient motor transport while also trying to meet other military requirements. As the 20th Motorized Infantry Division the unit took part in the invasion of Poland as part of Heinz Guderian's XIX Corps. During that campaign the motorized divisions were found to be somewhat unwieldy, so afterward the 20th and other motorized divisions were reorganized to reduce their size by about a third, leaving them with six motorized infantry battalions organized into two regiments, plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
III Panzer Corps
III Army Corps was a corps level formation of the German Army during World War II. III Army Corps The III Corps was formed in October 1934 as III. Armeekorps. The corps took part in Fall Weiss, the 1939 invasion of Poland as a part of Army Group North. It then took part in Fall Gelb as a part of Army Group A, participating in the assault through the Ardennes. In March 1941, the corps was upgraded to a motorised corps status and redesignated III Armeekorps (mot). The Corps was attached to Army Group South for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The corps advanced through Ukraine and took part in the Battle of Brody, Battle of Kiev, Battle of Rostov, Battle of Kharkov and Battle of Uman. III Panzer Corps III Panzer Corps was formed in June 1942 from III Army Corps and attached to Army Group A, the formation tasked with capturing the Caucasus as a part of Fall Blau. In mid-1943, following the loss of the 6th Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, III Panzer C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXXXVIII Panzer Corps
XXXXVIII Panzer Corps (also: XXXXVIII Army Corp or XXXXVIII. Armeekorps), was a corps-level formation of the German Army which saw extensive action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. History The corps was originally formed on 15 December 1940 in Germany. At the dawn of Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941, it was redesignated as the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps. The Corps was attached to Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's Panzer Group 1, a part of Army Group South. The corps took part in the Battle of Brody early in the campaign, and later saw action at Berdichev and Kirovograd. As did all German Corps on the Eastern Front, the XXXXVIII Corps implemented the criminal Commissar Order. From late 1941 to May 1942, the corps took part in defensive operations in the Kursk area. Thereafter the corps joined the Fall Blau offensive towards Stalingrad under Army Group B. During the Battle of Stalingrad the 29th Motorized Infantry Division (transferred to the IV Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXIV Panzer Corps
The XXIV Army Corps (german: XXIV. Armeekorps) was a unit of the German Army during World War II. The unit was re-designated several times; originally being ''Generalkommando der Grenztruppen Saarpfalz'', later ''Generalkommando XXIV. Armeekorps'', then ''XXIV. Armeekorps (mot.)'' and finally XXIV. Panzerkorps. History The ''Generalkommando der Grenztruppen Saarpfalz'' was created in October 1938 in Kaiserslautern in army sector XII under the command of General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze as one of three such general commands. On August 26, 1939, the corps was mobilized and on September 17th of the same year renamed to 24th Army Corps. At the start of World War II it contained several regiments of border infantry in addition to the three Infantry-Divisions. The corps was assigned to the 1st Army of Army Group C from the beginning of the Phoney War until the end of the Battle of France; and operated primarily defensively on the western border. In the final phase of the Battle of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
