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Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...
, the
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...
invasion of the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
during
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. It was fought between the
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...
-led
Axis Forces The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Na ...
and the
Soviet Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...
. The operation started on June 22, 1941, and ended on December 5, 1941, at the conclusion of
Operation Typhoon The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive e ...
.


Axis An axis (plural ''axes'') is an imaginary line around which an object rotates or is symmetrical. Axis may also refer to: Mathematics * Axis of rotation: see rotation around a fixed axis *Axis (mathematics), a designator for a Cartesian-coordinate ...


German Army Group North Army Group North (german: Heeresgruppe Nord) was a German strategic formation, commanding a grouping of field armies during World War II. The German Army Group was subordinated to the ''Oberkommando des Heeres'' (OKH), the German army high comman ...

Commanded by Field Marshal
Wilhelm von Leeb Wilhelm Josef Franz Ritter von Leeb (5 September 1876 – 29 April 1956) was a German field marshal and war criminal in World War II. Leeb was a highly decorated officer in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Max Joseph which gra ...
(Chief of Staff - Lt. Gen.
Kurt Brennecke Kurt Brennecke (16 December 1891 – 30 December 1982) was a General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XXXXIII. Armeekorps. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Kurt Brennecke was c ...
)


German Sixteenth Army

Colonel General Ernst Busch :
II Corps 2nd Corps, Second Corps, or II Corps may refer to: France * 2nd Army Corps (France) * II Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * II Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French ...
- General of Infantry
Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt __NOTOC__ Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (13 July 1887 – 9 May 1943) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt became il ...
:: 12th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Walther Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (; 22 August 1888 – 28 April 1976) was a German general during World War II who commanded the LI Army Corps during the Battle of Stalingrad. At the end of the battle, he gave his officers freedom of action ...
:: 32nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Wilhelm Bohnstedt Wilhelm Bohnstedt (5 October 1888 – 11 August 1947) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Bohnstedt surr ...
:: 121st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Otto Lancelle __NOTOC__ Otto Lancelle (27 March 1885 – 3 July 1941) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a recipient of both the Pour le Mérite and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest military awards of German Empire and ...
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X Corps 10th Corps, Tenth Corps, or X Corps may refer to: France * 10th Army Corps (France) * X Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Germany * X Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * ...
- General of Infantry Christian Hansen :: 30th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Kurt von Tippelskirch __NOTOC__ Kurt Oskar Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Tippelskirch (9 October 1891 – 10 May 1957) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several armies and Army Group Vistula. He surrendered to the United S ...
:: 126th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Paul Laux __NOTOC__ Paul Laux (11 November 1887 – 2 September 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 16th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Laux to ...
: XXVIII Corps - General of Infantry
Mauritz von Wiktorin __NOTOC__ Mauritz von Wiktorin (13 August 1883 – 16 August 1956) was an Austrian general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Wiktorin was discharged from the army on ...
:: 122nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Siegfried Macholz __NOTOC__ Siegfried Macholz (20 September 1890 – 25 May 1975) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * German Cross in Gold on 19 De ...
:: 123rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walter Lichel __NOTOC__ Walter Lichel (1 May 1885 – 10 December 1969) was a German general during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Lichel surrendered to the Allied troops in 1945 and was held until 1947. A ...


German Eighteenth Army

Colonel General
Georg von Küchler Georg Carl Wilhelm Friedrich von Küchler (30 May 1881 – 25 May 1968) was a German field marshal and war criminal during World War II. He commanded the 18th Army and Army Group North during the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945. After the end ...
(Chief of Staff - Maj. Gen. Kurt Waeger) : XXVI Corps - General of Artillery
Albert Wodrig __NOTOC__ Albert Wodrig (16 July 1883 – 31 October 1972) was a German general during World War II who commanded the XXVI. Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cr ...
:: 61st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Siegfried Haenicke Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid' ...
:: 217th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Richard Baltzer Richard Baltzer ( Danzig, 1 June 1886 – Prague, 10 May 1945) was a German Lieutenant general during World War II who commanded several divisions. Biography In the summer of 1939, during the mobilization for World War II, he was appointed co ...
:: 291st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Kurt Herzog __NOTOC__ Kurt Herzog (27 March 1889, Quedlinburg – 8 May 1948) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. A war criminal, Herzog surrendered to the Soviet troops in Ma ...
: XXXVIII Corps - General of Infantry
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis __NOTOC__ Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis (13 September 1886 – 27 August 1942) was a German general in the ''Wehrmacht'' during World War II who commanded the XXXVIII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Na ...
:: 58th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Karl von Graffen __NOTOC__ Karl von Graffen (6 June 1893 – 1 November 1964) was a German general during World War II who held divisional and corps level commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Graffen was taken prison ...
:: 254th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walter Behschnitt Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1 ...
:
I Corps I Corps, 1st Corps, or First Corps may refer to: France * 1st Army Corps (France) * I Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * I Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French A ...
- General of Infantry
Kuno-Hans von Both __NOTOC__ Kuno-Hans von Both (9 April 1884 – 22 May 1955) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of both the Pour le Mérite of the German Empire and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He was also awar ...
:: 1st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Philipp Kleffel __NOTOC__ Philipp Kleffel (9 December 1887 – 10 October 1964) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. For 10 days, Kleffel served as the ...
:: 11th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Herbert von Böckmann :: 21st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Otto Sponheimer __NOTOC__ Otto Sponheimer (19 December 1886 – 14 March 1961) was a German general (General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several corps. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Na ...


Panzergruppe 4 The 4th Panzer Army (german: 4. Panzerarmee) (operating as Panzer Group 4 (german: 4. Panzergruppe) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, when it was redesignated as a full army) was a German panzer formation during World War ...

Colonel General
Erich Hoepner Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading hi ...
(Chief of Staff - Colonel
Walter Chales de Beaulieu Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
) : XXXXI Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Georg Hans Reinhardt :: 1st Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Friedrich Kirchner Friedrich Kirchner (26 March 1885 – 6 April 1960) was a German general during World War II who commanded 1st Panzer Division and the LVII Panzer Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Car ...
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6th Panzer Division The 6th Panzer Division ( en, 6th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army (1935–1945), German Army, the ''Heer'', during World War II, established in October 1939. The division, initially formed as a light brigade, particip ...
- Lt. Gen.
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma Wilhelm Josef Ritter von Thoma (11 September 1891 – 30 April 1948) was a German army officer who served in World War I, in the Spanish Civil War, and as a general in World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Th ...
:: 269th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Ernst von Leyser Ernst Ulrich Hans von Leyser () (18 November 1889 – 23 September 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several army corps. After the war, in 1947, Leyser was tried for war crimes committed in ...
:: 36th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher __NOTOC__ Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher (18 November 1888 – 7 January 1975) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Ottenbacher was wounded durin ...
: LVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry
Erich von Manstein Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (born Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Lewinski; 24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German Field Marshal of the ''Wehrmacht'' during the Second World War, who was subsequently convicted of war crimes and ...
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8th Panzer Division The 8th Panzer Division was a formation of the ''Wehrmacht'' ''Heer''. The division was formed by reorganising the 3rd Light Division in October 1939. It was transferred to the west and fought in the Battle of France, in May 1940, and the Germ ...
- Lt. Gen.
Erich Brandenberger __NOTOC__ Erich Brandenberger (15 July 1892 – 21 June 1955) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Biography In World War I Br ...
:: 3rd Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Curt Jahn General Kurt Jahn, aka Curt Jahn, (February 16, 1892 – November 7, 1966) was a German Army general and commander in Lombardy, Italy during World War II. Born in Schmalkalden, Germany, he was captured west of Milan on 1 May 1945 and interned in B ...
:: 290th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Theodor Freiherr von Wrede __NOTOC__ Theodor Freiherr von Wrede (November 3, 1888 – March 30, 1973) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Wrede retired from active service in 1944. Awards * ...
:: SS-Totenkopf Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer
Theodor Eicke Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era. He was one of the key figures in the development of Nazi concentration camps. Eicke served as the seco ...
, on 7. July
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (22 June 1893 – 29 April 1945) was an SS-''Obergruppenführer'' during World War II. He commanded the SS Division Totenkopf, SS Division Nord, SS Division Das Reich, III SS Panzer Corps, VII SS Panzer Corps, IV S ...


Army Group assets and reserves

: XXIII Corps (Army Group Reserve) - General of Infantry
Albrecht Schubert Albrecht Schubert (23 June 1886 – 26 November 1966) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Life and career Born 23 June 1886 in Glatz (modern Kłodzko, Poland, the ...
:: 251st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans Kratzert Hans Kratzert (3 February 1940 – 15 August 2023) was a German screenwriter and film director. Kratzert was born in Heerwegen in the Province of Silesia during the Second World War. He was part of the mass emigration of Germans westward follow ...
:: 206th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hugo Höfl __NOTOC__ Hugo Höfl (16 June 1878 – 13 April 1957) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Höfl retired from active duty in April 1943. Awards * Knight's Cross of th ...
: L Corps (OKH reserve Behind AG North) - Lieutenant General
Georg Lindemann Georg Lindemann (8 March 1884 – 25 September 1963) was a German general during World War II. He commanded the 18th Army (Wehrmacht), 18th Army during the Soviet Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive. World War II In 1936, Lindemann was promoted to Genera ...
:: 86th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Joachim Witthöft __NOTOC__ Joachim Witthöft (23 September 1887 – 7 July 1966) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Witthöft commanded Army Group South Rear Area (as Army Group B) during the 1942 ...
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SS Police Division The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Formation The division was formed in October ...
- Ss Gr.f. Arthur Mülverstedt :Army Group rear lines :: 207th Security Division - Lt. Gen. Karl von Tiedemann :: 281st Security Division - Lt. Gen.
Friedrich Bayer Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory ''Friedrich Bayer'' ...
:: 285th Security Division - Lt. Gen. Wolfgang von Plotho


German Army Group Center Army Group Centre (german: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created on 22 June 1941, as one of three German Army f ...

Commanded by Field Marshal
Fedor von Bock Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German who served in the German Army during the Second World War. Bock served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in ...
(Chief of Staff - Maj. Gen.
Hans von Greiffenberg Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...
)


German Fourth Army

Field Marshal
Günther von Kluge Günther Adolf Ferdinand von Kluge (30 October 1882 – 19 August 1944) was a German field marshal during World War II who held commands on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. He commanded the 4th Army of the Wehrmacht during the invasion o ...
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VII Corps 7th Corps, Seventh Corps, or VII Corps may refer to: * VII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VII Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I * VII ...
- General of Artillery
Wilhelm Fahrmbacher Wilhelm Fahrmbacher (19 September 1888 – 27 April 1970) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several corps, including VII Corps, XXV Corps and LXXXIV Corps, fighting on both the Eastern Front and We ...
:: 7th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz __NOTOC__ Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz (26 January 1891 – 17 December 1978) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He participated in the campaigns of Poland, France and the invasion of the Sovi ...
:: 23rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Heinz Hellmich Heinz Hellmich (9 June 1890 – 17 June 1944) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. On 1 April 1942, Hellmich was appoint ...
:: 258th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Waldemar Henrici Waldemar Henrici (February 3, 1878 – February 15, 1950) was a Lieutenant General of the German Wehrmacht who commanded a division of the VII Army Corps in the 4th Army during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia during the Second ...
:: 268th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Erich Straube __NOTOC__ Erich Straube (11 December 1887 – 31 March 1971) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held several corps level commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germ ...
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IX Corps 9 Corps, 9th Corps, Ninth Corps, or IX Corps may refer to: France * 9th Army Corps (France) * IX Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Germany * IX Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial Germ ...
- General of Infantry
Hermann Geyer __NOTOC__ Hermann Geyer (7 July 1882 – 10 April 1946) was a German general during World War II who commanded the IX Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Geyer retired in 1943 and committed suici ...
:: 137th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Friedrich Bergmann :: 263rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...
:: 292nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Martin Dehmel Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austr ...
: XIII Corps - General of Infantry
Hans Felber __NOTOC__ Hans-Gustav Felber (July 8, 1889 – March 8, 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Biography From 15 October 1939 Felber was the chief of staff of the 2nd Army, becoming chief of staff of the Army ...
:: 17th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Herbert Loch __NOTOC__ Herbert Loch (5 August 1886 – 28 October 1976) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XXVIII Corps and the 18th Army. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Aw ...
:: 78th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Curt Gallenkamp __NOTOC__ Curt Gallenkamp (17 February 1890 – 13 April 1958) was a German general (General of the Artillery) in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a convicted war criminal. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Naz ...
: XXXXIII Corps - General of Infantry
Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici (25 December 1886 – 10 December 1971) was a German general during World War II. Heinrici is considered as the premier defensive expert of the ''Wehrmacht''. His final command was Army Group Vistula, formed from t ...
:: 131st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf __NOTOC__ Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf (13 December 1888 – 1 May 1971) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 131st Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards ...
:: 134th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Conrad von Cochenhausen Conrad may refer to: People * Conrad (name) Places United States * Conrad, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Iowa, a city * Conrad, Montana, a city * Conrad Glacier, Washington ...
:: 252nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Diether von Boehm-Bezing


German Ninth Army The 9th Army (german: 9. Armee) was a World War II field army. It was activated on 15 May 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command. History 1940 The 9th Army first saw service along the Siegfried Line during its involvement in the invas ...

Colonel General Adolf Strauß :
V Corps 5th Corps, Fifth Corps, or V Corps may refer to: France * 5th Army Corps (France) * V Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * V Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Ar ...
- General of Infantry
Richard Ruoff Richard Ruoff (18 August 1883 – 30 March 1967) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army on the Eastern Front. World War II Ruoff took command of V Army Corps on 1 ...
:: 5th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Karl Allmendinger Karl Allmendinger (3 February 1891 – 2 October 1965) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded the 5th Infantry Division, V Army Corps then 17th Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the ...
:: 35th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walther Fischer von Weikersthal Walther Fischer von Weikersthal (15 September 1890 – 11 February 1953) was a German general in the German Army during World War II. A career officer who also served in the Army of Württemberg in World War I and the Weimar Republic's ''Reichswe ...
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VI Corps 6 Corps, 6th Corps, Sixth Corps, or VI Corps may refer to: France * VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry formation of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VI Corps (Grande Armée), a formation of the Imperial French army du ...
- General of Pioneer
Otto-Wilhelm Förster __NOTOC__ Otto-Wilhelm Förster (16 March 1885 – 24 June 1966) was a general in the German Army during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Förster retired from active duty in J ...
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6th Infantry Division 6th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 6th Division (Australia) * 6th Division (Austria) *6th (United Kingdom) Division * Finnish 6th Division (Winter War) *Finnish 6th Division (Continuation War) * 6th Division (Reichswehr) * 6th Divisi ...
- Lt. Gen.
Helge Auleb __NOTOC__ Helge Arthur Auleb (24 March 1887 – 14 March 1964) was a general in the ''Wehrmacht'' of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was born in Gehren. Auleb commanded the 6th Infantry Division as part of VI Army Corps during Operati ...
:: 26th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walter Weiß __NOTOC__ General Walter-Otto Weiß, also spelt Weiss (5 September 1890 – 21 December 1967), was a German general during World War II. In 1945 he became commander in chief of Army Group North on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the Kni ...
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VIII Corps 8th Corps, Eighth Corps, or VIII Corps may refer to: * VIII Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VIII Army Corps (German Confederation) * VIII Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Ar ...
- General of Artillery
Walter Heitz Walter Heitz (8 December 1878 – 9 February 1944) was a German general (''Generaloberst'') in the Wehrmacht during World War II who served as President of the Reichskriegsgericht, Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army (Wehrmacht ...
:: 8th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Gustav Höhne __NOTOC__ Gustav Höhne (17 February 1893 – 1 July 1951) was a German general during World War II who held commands at the division and corps levels. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Aw ...
:: 28th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Johann Sinnhuber __NOTOC__ Johann Sinnhuber (27 March 1887 – 23 October 1979) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * K ...
:: 161st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hermann Wilck : XX Corps - General of Infantry
Friedrich Materna Friedrich Materna (21 June 1885 – 11 November 1946) was a general in the Bundesheer (Austrian Federal Army) in the 1930s and the German Wehrmacht during the World War II. He became a general-major in the Austrian army in 1935, and he was also ...
:: 162nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hermann Franke :: 256th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Gerhard Kauffmann __NOTOC__ Gerhard Kauffmann (29 June 1887 – 16 June 1969) was a German general during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Kauffmann was retired from active service on 30 September 1943. ...


Panzergruppe 2

Colonel General
Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist. An early pioneer and advocate of the " blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in t ...
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XII Corps 12th Corps, Twelfth Corps, or XII Corps may refer to: * 12th Army Corps (France) * XII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps, a unit of the Imperial German Army * XII ...
- General of Infantry
Walther Schroth __NOTOC__ Walther Schroth (3 June 1882 – 6 October 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Schroth served on the "Court of Military Honour," a drumh ...
(Only under Panzergruppe 2 for initial stages of the invasion) :: 31st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Kurt Kalmukoff :: 34th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans Behlendorff Hans Behlendorff (13 August 1889 – 16 March 1961) was a German general during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 Oc ...
:: 45th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Fritz Schlieper Fritz Schlieper (4 August 1892 – 4 June 1977) was a German military officer who served during World War I and World War II, eventually gaining the rank of Generalleutnant. Biography Fritz Schlieper was born 4 August 1892 in Koldromb, Posen. I ...
: XXIV Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg Leo Dietrich Franz Reichsfreiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg (2 March 1886 – 27 January 1974), was a German general during World War II, noted for his pioneering stance and expertise in the field of armoured warfare. He commanded the 5th Panzer Arm ...
:: 3rd Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Walter Model Otto Moritz Walter Model (; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German field marshal during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defen ...
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4th Panzer Division The 4th Panzer Division ( en, 4th Tank Division) was an armored division in the Army of Nazi Germany. In World War II, it participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasion of France, and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. It ...
- Lt. Gen.
Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp (29 March 1890 – 3 October 1942) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Biography Born in 1890, Erlencamp joi ...
:: 10th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper (3 August 1888 – 7 October 1983) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was marri ...
:: 1st Cavalry Division - Lt. Gen.
Kurt Feldt __NOTOC__ Kurt Feldt (22 November 1897 – 11 March 1970) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was the German commander in the Battle of the Afsluitdij ...
:: 255th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Wilhelm Wetzel __NOTOC__ Wilhelm Wetzel (17 July 1888 – 4 July 1964) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on ...
:: 267th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Robert Martinek __NOTOC__ Robert Martinek (2 February 1889 – 28 June 1944) was an Austrian general who served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. An artillery offic ...
: XXXXVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry
Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich Gottfried Otto Richard von Vietinghoff genannt Scheel (6 December 1887 – 23 February 1952) was a German general (''Generaloberst'') of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oa ...
:: 10th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Ferdinand Schaal Ferdinand Friedrich Schaal (7 February 1889 – 9 October 1962) was a German general during World War II. He commanded the 10th Panzer Division in the 1939 Invasion of Poland and directed the successful Siege of Calais in 1940. Schaal was i ...
:: SS-Reich Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer
Paul Hausser Paul Hausser also known as Paul Falk after taking his maiden name post war (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972) was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former mem ...
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Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland The Infantry Regiment ''Großdeutschland'' (german: Infanterie-Regiment "Großdeutschland"; ) was an élite German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army ceremonial and combat unit which saw action during World War II. Originally formed in 1921 it was k ...
- Maj. Gen. Wilhelm-Hunert von Stockenhausen : XXXXVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer
Joachim Lemelsen Joachim Lemelsen (28 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during World War II who rose to army-level command. During Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, troops of the XLVII Motorized Corps under his ...
:: 17th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim Hans-Jürgen Bernard Theodor von Arnim (; 4 April 1889 – 1 September 1962) was a German general in the Nazi Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several armies. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Early life ...
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18th Panzer Division The 18th Panzer Division (german: 18. Panzer-Division) was a German World War II armoured division that fought on the Eastern Front from 1941 until its disbandment in 1943. Formation The 18th Panzer Division was formed on 26 October 1940 at ...
- Lt. Gen.
Walther Nehring Walther Nehring (15 August 1892 – 20 April 1983) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the Afrika Korps. Early life Nehring was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, West Prussia. Nehring was the descendant of a ...
:: 29th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Walter von Boltenstern __NOTOC__ Walter von Boltenstern (26 November 1889 – 19 January 1952) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Bolten ...
:: 167th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hans Schönhärl


Panzergruppe 3

Colonel General
Hermann Hoth Hermann Hoth (12 April 1885 – 25 January 1971) was a German army commander, war criminal, and author. He served as a high-ranking panzer commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II, playing a prominent role in the Battle of France and on t ...
: XXXIX Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer
Rudolf Schmidt Rudolf Schmidt (12 May 1886 – 7 April 1957) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 2nd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leav ...
:: 7th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans Freiherr von Funck Hans von Funck (23 December 1891 – 14 February 1979) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II, who commanded the 7th Panzer Division and the XXXXVII Panzer Corps. Career Hans von Funck joined the German army in August 1914 and ...
:: 20th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Horst Stumpff __NOTOC__ Horst Stumpff (20 November 1887 – 25 November 1958) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. On 1 January 1938 Stumpff was given command of the 3rd Panzer B ...
:: 14th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen. Friedrich Fürst :: 20th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Hans Zorn __NOTOC__ Hans Zorn (27 October 1891 – 2 August 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Zorn was killed on 2 August 1943 by Sovi ...
: LVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer
Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen __NOTOC__ General Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen (26 July 1889 – 10 July 1964) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXI Army-Corps under Erwin Rommel in Normandy in 1944. He saw service in World War I, and ...
:: 12th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
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 ...
:: 19th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.
Otto von Knobelsdorff Otto von Knobelsdorff (31 March 1886 – 21 October 1966) was a German general during World War II who led the 19th Panzer Division and then held a series of higher commands. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Le ...
:: 18th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Friedrich Herrlein __NOTOC__ Eckner's reception in Lübeck in 1925. Top row far right Friedrich Herrlein (27 April 1889 – 28 July 1974) was a German general (General der Infanterie) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LV Corps. He was a recip ...


German Army Group South Army Group South (german: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of three German Army Groups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September Campaign, along with Army Group North to invade Poland. In the invasion of Poland Army Group Sou ...

Commanded by Field Marshal
Gerd von Rundstedt Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt (12 December 1875 – 24 February 1953) was a German field marshal in the '' Heer'' (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. Born into a Prussian family with a long military tradition, Rundstedt entered th ...
(Chief of Staff - Lt. Gen.
Georg von Sodenstern Georg von Sodenstern (15 November 1889 – 20 July 1955) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 19th Army. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. It has been indicat ...
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German Sixth Army

Field Marshal
Walther von Reichenau Walter Karl Ernst August von Reichenau (8 October 1884 – 17 January 1942) was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Reichenau commanded the 6th Army, during the invasions of Belgium and France. During Operation ...
: XVII Corps - General of Infantry
Werner Kienitz __NOTOC__ Werner Kienitz (3 June 1885 – 31 December 1959) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XVII. Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards * Knight's ...
:: 56th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Karl von Oven Karl von Oven (29 November 1888 – 20 January 1974) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of ...
:: 62nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Walter Keiner __NOTOC__ Walter Keiner (30 December 1890 – 23 January 1978) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron ...
: XXIX Corps - General of Infantry
Hans von Obstfelder __NOTOC__ Hans von Obstfelder (6 September 1886 – 20 December 1976) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. I ...
:: 44th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Friedrich Siebert __NOTOC__ Friedrich Siebert (7 July 1888 – 13 May 1950) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the XIII Corps during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Siebert was a member of the Nazi ...
:: 111th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Otto Stapf :: 299th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Willi Moser __NOTOC__ Willi Moser (2 November 1887 – 18 October 1946) was a German general during World War II who commanded the LXXI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Moser was taken prisoner by Sovie ...
: XXXXIV Corps - General of Infantry
Friedrich Koch Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cello, cellist and teacher. Biography He was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Berlin Universit ...
:: 9th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz __NOTOC__ Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz (23 July 1890 – 30 November 1968) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Schleinitz surrendered to the Re ...
:: 297th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Max Pfeffer __NOTOC__ Max Pfeffer (7 June 1883 – 21 December 1955) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the IV Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Pfeffer surrendered to the S ...
: LV Corps - General of Infantry
Erwin Vierow __NOTOC__ General Erwin Vierow (15 May 1890 – 1 February 1982) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and in the infantry and by the outbreak of Worl ...
:: 75th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Ernst Hammer __NOTOC__ Ernst Hammer (20 October 1884 – 2 December 1957) was a German-Austrian officer of four armies since 1 October 1903, entering as a one-year volunteer. He was Oberleutnant of the Common Army, Hauptmann of the k.u.k. Armee, Generalmajor ...
:: 57th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Oskar Blümm Oskar Blümm (26 June 1884 – 12 December 1951) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 57th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * Kn ...
:: 168th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans Mundt Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...
:: 298th Infantry Division - Mj. Gen.
Walther Graeßner __NOTOC__ Walther Graeßner (31 January 1891 – 16 July 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Graeßner was wounded in mid-Febr ...


Panzergruppe 1 The 1st Panzer Army (german: 1. Panzerarmee) was a German tank army that was a large armoured formation of the Wehrmacht during World War II. When originally formed on 1 March 1940, the predecessor of the 1st Panzer Army was named Panzer Group ...

Colonel General
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (8 August 1881 – 13 November 1954) was a German field marshal during World War II. Kleist was the commander of Panzer Group Kleist (later 1st Panzer Army), the first operational formation of several Panzer corps in t ...
: III Corps (mot.) - General of Cavalry
Eberhard von Mackensen Friedrich August Eberhard von Mackensen (24 September 1889 – 19 May 1969) was a German general and war criminal during World War II who served as commander of the 1st Panzer Army and the 14th Army. Following the war, Mackensen stood trial for ...
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13th Panzer Division The 13th Panzer Division ( en, 13th Armoured Division) was a unit of the German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division was organized under the code name Infantry Command IV (''Infanterieführer IV'') in October 1934. On O ...
- Lt. Gen.
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen __NOTOC__ Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen (16 February 1884 – 24 December 1953) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "Natio ...
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14th Panzer Division The 14th Panzer Division (german: 14. Panzer-Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II. It was created in 1940 by the conversion of the 4th Infantry Division. The division took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia ...
- Lt. Gen.
Friedrich Kühn General Friedrich Kühn (7 August 1889 – 15 February 1944) was a General der Panzertruppe in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. World War II At the start of World War I ...
:: 25th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen. Erich-Heinrich Clößner : XIV Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry
Gustav Anton von Wietersheim Gustav Anton von Wietersheim (11 February 1884 – 25 April 1974) was a German general during World War II. He led the XIV Motorized Corps (after 21 June 1941, XIV Panzer Corps) from its creation in 1938 until 14 September 1942 during the Battle ...
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9th Panzer Division The 9th Panzer Division was a panzer division of the German Army during World War II. It came into existence after 4th Light Division was reorganized in January 1940. The division was headquartered in Vienna, in the German military district Weh ...
- Lt. Gen.
Alfred Ritter von Hubicki __NOTOC__ Alfred Ritter von Hubicki (5 February 1887 – 14 July 1971) was a Hungarian-born general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. By the time of the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he had reached the rank of Generalmajor as ...
:: SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler - SS-Obergruppenführer
Sepp Dietrich Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (28 May 1892 – 21 April 1966) was a German politician and SS commander during the Nazi era. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930. Prior to 1929, Dietrich was A ...
:: SS-Wiking Division - SS-Brigadeführer
Felix Steiner Felix Martin Julius Steiner (23 May 1896 – 12 May 1966) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS divisions and corps. He was awarded t ...
: XXXXVIII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer
Werner Kempf Werner Kempf (9 March 1886 – 6 January 1964) was a general in the German Army rising to corps-level command during World War II. Kempf is best known for commanding the Army Detachment Kempf during the Battle of Kursk. Career Kempf joined the ...
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11th Panzer Division The 11th Panzer Division ( en, 11th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division saw action on the Eastern and Western Fronts during the Second World War. The 11th Panzer Div ...
- Lt. Gen.
Ludwig Crüwell Ludwig Crüwell (20 March 1892 – 25 September 1958) was a German army general who served in the Afrika Korps of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Crüwell surrendered to ...
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16th Panzer Division The 16th Panzer Division (german: 16. Panzer-Division) was a formation of the German Army in World War II. It was formed in November 1940 from the 16th Infantry Division. It took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in ...
- Lt. Gen.
Hans-Valentin Hube Hans-Valentin Hube (29 October 1890 – 21 April 1944) was a German general during World War II who commanded armoured forces in the invasions of Poland, France and the Soviet Union. In the course of the war, Hube led the 16th Infantry Divis ...
:: 16th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.
Sigfrid Henrici __NOTOC__ General Sigfrid Henrici (10 May 1889 – 8 November 1964) was a German general during World War II. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Henrici was the commander of the 16th Infantry Division (motorised). He commanded XXXX P ...


German Seventeenth Army The German Seventeenth Army () was a field army of Nazi Germany during World War II. Operation Barbarossa On 22 June 1941, the 17th Army was part of Army Group South when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Soviet Union. F ...

General of Infantry
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (2 January 1886 – 30 August 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was an army level commander. While serving as military commander of German-occupied France and as comm ...
: IV Corps - General of Infantry
Viktor von Schwedler Viktor von Schwedler (18 January 1885 – 30 October 1954) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded an army corps and a military district during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Schwedler w ...
:: 24th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans von Tettau __NOTOC__ Hans von Tettau (30 November 1888 – 30 January 1956) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held commands at the divisional and corps level. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cros ...
:: 71st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Alexander von Hartmann Alexander von Hartmann (11 December 1890 – 26 January 1943) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 71st Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Hartma ...
:: 262nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. ::
295th Infantry Division The 295th Infantry Division (german: 295. Infanterie-Division) was an Infantry Division, infantry division of the German German Army (1935–1945), Heer during World War II. Operational history Formation The division was formed on 10 February ...
- Lt. Gen. Herbert Geitner :: 296th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Wilhelm Stemmermann __NOTOC__ Wilhelm Stemmermann (23 October 1888 – 18 February 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the XI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He ...
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XXXXIX Mountain Corps XXXXIX Mountain Corps was a mountain corps of the German Army during World War II that participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia. In June 1941, it participated in Operation Barbarossa as part of Army Group South. It fought in the Battle of Uma ...
- General of Infantry
Ludwig Kübler Ludwig Kübler (2 September 1889 – 18 August 1947) was a German ''General der Gebirgstruppe'' (Lieutenant General) who commanded the 1st Mountain Division, XXXXIX Mountain Corps, 4th Army and the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littora ...
:: 68th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Georg Braun Georg Braun (also ''Brunus, Bruin''; 1541 – 10 March 1622) was a German topo-geographer. From 1572 to 1617, he edited the ''Civitates orbis terrarum,'' which contains 546 prospects, bird's-eye views and maps of cities from all around the ...
:: 257th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Karl Sachs Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...
:: 1st Mountain Division - Lt. Gen.
Hubert Lanz Karl Hubert Lanz (22 May 1896 – 15 August 1982) was a German general during the Second World War, in which he led units in the Eastern Front and in the Balkans. After the war, he was tried for war crimes and convicted in the Southeast Case, sp ...
: LII Corps - General of Infantry
Kurt von Briesen __NOTOC__ Kurt von Briesen (3 May 1886 – 20 November 1941) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. He was a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross. Briesen led the 30th Infantry Division in the invasion of Poland in 1939. O ...
:: 101st Light Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Erich Marcks Erich Marcks (6 June 1891 – 12 June 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan, ''Operation Draft East'', for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, ad ...
:: 97th Light Infantry Division - Mj. Gen.
Maximilian Fretter-Pico __NOTOC__ Maximilian Fretter-Pico (6 February 1892 – 4 April 1984) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. A veteran of WWI, he would serve in the Bat ...
:: 100th Light Infantry Division - Mj. Gen.
Werner Sanne __NOTOC__ Werner Otto Sanne (5 April 1889 – 26 September 1952) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi German ...
: Hungarian Fast Corps - Gen.
Béla Miklós Béla Miklós de Dálnok, Vitéz of Dálnok (11 June 1890 – 21 November 1948) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Hungary, at first in opposition, and then officially, from 1944 to 1945. He ...
:: 1st Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg. Gen.
Jenő Major Jenő Major (6 August 1891 – 13 January 1972) was a Hungarian military officer, who served as the last Commander of the Hungarian Second Army during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviat ...
:: 2nd Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg. Gen.
János Vörös János Vörös (25 March 1891 – 23 July 1968) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by Béla Miklós. He fought in the First World War at th ...
:: 1st Hungarian Cavalry Brigade - Bg. Gen : Slovak Expeditionary Army Group - Gen.
Ferdinand Čatloš Ferdinand Čatloš (October 7, 1895 – December 16, 1972), born Csatlós Nándor, was a Slovak military officer and politician. Throughout his short career in the administration of the Slovak Republic he held the post of Minister of Defence. He wa ...
:: Slovakian Mobile Brigade - LTC. :: 1st Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Antonin Pulanich :: 2nd Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.


Romanian Army Group Antonescu

General
Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu (; ; – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and ''Conducător'' during most of World War II. A Romanian Army career officer who made ...
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Romanian Third Army The 3rd Army (Armata a 3-a Română) was a field army of the Romanian Land Forces active from the 19th century to the 1990s. It fought as part of the German Army Group B during World War II, in Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Caucasus. General Petre ...
- Lt. Gen.
Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu (; 18 February 1882 – 15 January 1950) was a Romanian general during World War II who led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Red Army in the Eastern Front. Early life and military career Dumitrescu was born i ...
:: Romanian 4th Army Corps - Mj. Gen.
Constantin Sănătescu Constantin Sănătescu (14 January 1885 – 8 November 1947) was a Romanian general and statesman who served as the 44th Prime Minister of Romania after the 23 August 1944 coup after which Romania left the Axis powers and joined the Allies. Earl ...
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6th Infantry Division 6th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 6th Division (Australia) * 6th Division (Austria) *6th (United Kingdom) Division * Finnish 6th Division (Winter War) *Finnish 6th Division (Continuation War) * 6th Division (Reichswehr) * 6th Divisi ...
- Br. Gen. ::: 7th Infantry Division- Br. Gen. :: Cavalry Corps - Mj. Gen.
Ioan Mihail Racoviță Ioan Mihail Racoviță (7 March 1889, Bucharest – 28 June 1954, Sighet Prison) was a Romanian general during World War II, and Minister of Defense in the aftermath of King Michael's Coup of August 1944. Biography In 1906 he was admitted to ...
:::5th Cavalry Brigade - Col. :::8th Cavalry Brigade - Col. ::Mountain Corps - Mj. Gen.
Gheorghe Avramescu Gheorghe Avramescu (26 January 1884 – 3 March 1945) was a Romanian Lieutenant General during World War II. In 1945, he was arrested by the NKVD on the Slovakian front and died in custody the next day. Early life Avramescu was born Botoșani ...
:::1st Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen.
Mihail Lascăr Mihail Lascăr (; November 8, 1889 – July 24, 1959) was a Romanian general during World War II and Romania's Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947. He was born in Târgu Jiu, Gorj County, Kingdom of Romania, and graduated from the Infantry O ...
:::2nd Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen.
Ioan Dumitrache Ioan Dumitrache (25 August 1889 – 6 March 1977) was a Romanian major general during World War II, in command of the 2nd Mountain Division. His troops ('' vânători de munte'') were recognized as the elite troops of the Romanian Army throughout ...
:::4th Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen. Gheorghe Manoliu


German Eleventh Army

Colonel General
Eugen Ritter von Schobert Eugen Siegfried Erich Ritter von Schobert (13 March 1883 – 12 September 1941) was a German general during World War II. He commanded the 11th Army during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Schobert died when his observatio ...
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XI Corps 11 Corps, 11th Corps, Eleventh Corps, or XI Corps may refer to: * 11th Army Corps (France) * XI Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * XI Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * ...
- General of Infantry
Joachim von Kortzfleisch Joachim Otto August Achatius von Kortzfleisch (3 January 1890 – 20 April 1945) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. As the commander of the Military District III (Berlin), he played a role in the failure of the attempted ...
:: 76th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Maximilian de Angelis __NOTOC__ Maximilian de Angelis (2 October 1889 – 6 December 1974) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. On 4 April 1946 Angelis was ext ...
:: 239th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Ferdinand Neuling Ferdinand Neuling (22 August 1885 – 20 February 1960) was a general of the Heer during World War II. In September 1939, German troops under his command occupied the Polish part of Upper Silesia and cities of Katowice, Mikołów, Chorzów, co ...
:: 1st Romanian Armored Division - Bg. Gen.
Ioan Sion Alecu Ioan Sion (September 28, 1890 – November 24, 1942) was a Romanian soldier and a major general in the Romanian Land Forces, Land Forces. Born in Pitești, he attended the military high school from Iași and then studied at the milita ...
:: 6th Romanian Cavalry Brigade - Mg. Gen. : XXX Corps - General of Infantry
Hans von Salmuth Hans Eberhard Kurt Freiherr von Salmuth (11 November 1888 – 1 January 1962) was a German general and war criminal during World War II. Salmuth commanded several armies on the Eastern Front, and the Fifteenth Army in France during the D-Day i ...
:: 198th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Otto Röttig Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ...
:: 8th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. :: 13th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. :: 14th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. : LIV Corps - General of Cavalry
Erick-Oskar Hansen __NOTOC__ Erick-Oskar Hansen (27 May 1889 – 18 March 1967) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Biography Born in Hamburg, Hansen entered the army ...
:: 50th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Karl-Adolf Hollidt Karl-Adolf Hollidt (25 April 1891 – 22 May 1985) was a German army commander and war criminal during World War II. He was a general (''Generaloberst'') in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the 6th Army. Career Hollidt enlisted in th ...
:: 170th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. :: 5th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. Petre Vlădescu : Italian Expeditionary Corps - Lt. Gen.
Giovanni Messe Giovanni Messe (10 December 1883 – 18 December 1968) was an Italian field marshal and politician. In the Second World War, he was captured in Tunisia, but made chief of staff of the Italian Co-belligerent Army after the armistice of Septemb ...
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9th Infantry Division "Pasubio" The 9th Infantry Division Pasubio ( it, 9ª Divisione di fanteria "Pasubio") was an infantry Division (military), division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Pasubio was classified as an auto-transportable division, meaning it had ...
- Gen. Vittorio Giovanelli ::
52nd Infantry Division "Torino" The 52nd Infantry Division "Torino" ( it, 52ª Divisione di fanteria "Torino") was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Torino was named after the city of Turin ( it, Torino) and classified as an auto-transporta ...
- Gen. Luigi Manzi ::
3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" The 3rd Cavalry Division " Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" ( it, 3ª Divisione celere "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta") was a Cavalry or "Celere" (Fast) division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The division was formed in 1934, and duri ...
- Gen. Mario Marazzani : 22nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.
Hans Graf von Sponeck Hans Emil Otto Graf von Sponeck (12 February 1888 – 23 July 1944) was a German general during World War II who was imprisoned for disobeying orders and later executed. Pre-World War II career Sponeck was born in 1888 in Düsseldorf. He rece ...
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Romanian Fourth Army The Fourth Army (Armata a 4-a Română) was a field army (a military formation) of the Romanian Land Forces active from the 19th century to the 1990s. History World War I The Fourth Army fought under the name of "Northern Army" or "Army of ...
- Lt. Gen.
Nicolae Ciupercă Nicolae Ciupercă (20 April 1882 – 25 May 1950) was a Romanian general, born in Râmnicu Sărat. He served during World War I and World War II under the command of Alexandru Averescu and then Ion Antonescu, but would retire from a military life ...
:: Romanian 3rd Army Corps - Mj. Gen.
Vasile Atanasiu Vasile Atanasiu (April 25, 1886 – June 6, 1964) was a Romanian general in World War II. Biography He was born in Târgoviște, Romania in 1886, in a Greek-Romanian family, the son of Ștefan and Paulina Atanasiu. He graduated from the "Milit ...
:::Guards Division - Mj. Gen. :::15th Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. :::35th Reserve Divisions - Br. Gen. :: Romanian 5th Army Corps - Lt. Gen. :::Border Division - Br. Gen. :::21st Division - Mj. Gen. :: Romanian 11th Army Corps - Mj. Gen. I. Aurelian :::two fortress brigades :Other assets :: Romanian 2nd Army Corps - Mj. Gen.
Nicolae Macici Nicolae Macici (7 November 1886 – 15 June 1950) was a Romanian lieutenant general during World War II, when he commanded the Romanian First Army, first on the side of the Axis (1941–1944) and then on the side of the Allies (1944–1945). Con ...
:::9th Infantry Division - Br. Gen. Hugo Schwab :::10th Infantry Division - Br. Gen. Ion Glogojanu :::7th Cavalry Brigade - Col. :::11th Infantry Division - Br. Gen.
David Popescu David Popescu (25 May 1886 – 11 April 1955) was a Romanian general during World War II and Interior Minister in 1940. Biography He was born in 1886 in Comarnic, Prahova County, Kingdom of Romania, the son of Iulian (a priest) and Maria. He a ...


Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...


Stavka The ''Stavka'' (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine. In Imperial Russia ''Stavka'' referred to the administrative staff, a ...

The "Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (''Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya'') was formed on 23 June, largely from the existing People's Commissariat for Defence. Commander in Chief: Marshal
Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (russian: link=no, Семён Константи́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko''; uk, Семе́н Костянти́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semen Kostiantyno ...
(until July 19), then
Josef Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Army General
Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...
(from August 8)
Chief of the General Staff: Army General Georgy Zhukov (until July 21), then Marshal
Boris Shaposhnikov , birth_name = Boris Mikhailovitch Shaposhnikov , birth_date = , death_date = , birth_place = Zlatoust, Ufa GovernorateRussian Empire , death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union , placeofburial = Kremlin Wall Necropolis , placeofbu ...


16th Army

Lieutenant General
Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin (russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Луки́н); born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Scien ...
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32nd Rifle Corps The 32nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. Each formation was a distinct unit, unrelated to the other. First formation The corps headquarters formed in the Transbaikal Military District in September 1939 ...
- Major General
Trofim Kolomiets Trofim Kolomiets (1894 – April 1971) was a Soviet Army commander. Biography Kolomiets was born in Elisavetgrad, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World W ...
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46th Rifle Division The 46th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army. History The division was formed in 1923 as a territorial unit, assigned to the 14th Rifle Corps of the Ukrainian Military District. Based in Kiev, it included the 136th, 137th, and 13 ...
- Major General Alexander Filatov :: 152nd Rifle Division - Colonel Pyotr Chernyshov : 5th Mechanized Corps - Major General
Ilya Alekseyenko Ilya Prokofyevich Alekseyenko (; 20 June 1899 – 3 August 1941) was a Ukrainian Red Army major general. After joining the Red Army in 1918, Alekseyenko served as a junior commander in machine gun units during the Russian Civil War and the Polish ...
:: 13th Tank Division - Colonel Fyodor Grachev :: 17th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Korchagin :: 109th Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Krasnoretsky


19th Army

Lieutenant General
Ivan Konev Ivan Stepanovich Konev ( rus, link=no, Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, p=ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf;  – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the E ...
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38th Rifle Division The 38th Rifle Division (38-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. Formed in 1918 as the 2nd Don Infantry Division. In February 1919, as part of the 1st Army, the Div ...
- Colonel Maxim Kirillov :
25th Rifle Corps The 25th Army Corps was an army corps of the Soviet Ground Forces active from 1957–1960 and 1980–89. In its first period of existence it was in the Odessa Military District, and in its second period of existence it garrisoned the remote Kamchatk ...
- Major General Sergey Chestohvalov ::
127th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
- Major General Timofey Korneyev :: 134th Rifle Division - Major General Vladimir Kuzmich Bazarov ::
162nd Rifle Division Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film d ...
- Colonel Nikolai Kolkunov :
34th Rifle Corps The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 129th Rifle Division * 158th Rifle Division * 171st Rifle Division Commanders * Divisional comma ...
- Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky ::
129th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
- Major General Auxentios Gorodnyansky :: 158th Rifle Division - Colonel V.I. Novozhilov :: 171st Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Budyho


20th Army

Lieutenant General
Fyodor Remezov Fyodor Nikitich Remezov (; 6 June 1990) was a Soviet Army general during World War II who commanded several armies and military districts. Remezov joined the Red Army in 1918 and fought in the Russian Civil War as a junior commander. After the ...
: 18th Rifle Division - Colonel Karp Sviridov :
61st Rifle Corps The 61st Rifle Corps (Russian: 61-й стрелковый корпус '' '') was a Red Army infantry corps during World War II, formed twice. The 61st Rifle Corps was formed firmed in Tula during September 1939. After Operation Barbarossa, it was ...
- Major General Fyodor Bakunin ::
110th Rifle Division The 110th Rifle Division was a formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the course of World War II, which was formed, dissolved, and re-formed three times throughout the war. History First formation The division was first formed 20 Septem ...
- Colonel Vasily Khlebtsov :: 144th Rifle Division - Major General
Mikhail Pronin Mikhail Andreyevich Pronin (russian: Михаил Андреевич Пронин; 1 October 1892 – 26 November 1978) was a Soviet Army major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Pronin served as a sapper in the Imperial Russian Army during ...
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172nd Rifle Division The 172nd Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II, formed thrice. First formation On 22 June 1941 it was part of the 61st Rifle Corps of the 20th Army in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. By ...
- Major General Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov : 69th Rifle Corps - Major General Yevdokim Mogilovchik :: 73rd Rifle Division - Colonel
Alexander Akimov Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov (russian: Александр Фёдорович Акимов; 6 May 1953 – 11 May 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on t ...
:: 229th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlov :: 233rd Rifle Division - Colonel Grigory Kotov : 7th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vasily Ivanovich Vinogradov :: 14th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilyev :: 1st Motor Rifle Division - Colonel
Yakov Kreizer Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer (russian: Яков Григорьевич Крейзер; 4 November 1905, Voronezh – 29 November 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet field commander. Before the war Kreizer's Jewish parents were granted permission to liv ...


21st Army

Lieutenant General Vasily Gerasimenko :
63rd Rifle Corps The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. First formation The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the Volga Military District. It was part of the 21st Army in June 1941, with th ...
- Lieutenant General
Leonid Petrovsky Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky (11 June 1897 – 17 August 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant general. He was the oldest son of Grigory Petrovsky. He was born in what is now Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. He was promoted to Komkor from Komdiv in 1937. While ...
:: 53rd Rifle Division - Colonel Ivan Bartenev :: 148th Rifle Division - Colonel Filipp Cherokmanov ::
167th Rifle Division The 167th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, formed twice. History First Formation The division was formed at Balashov in the Volga Military District in July 1940, under the command of ''Kombrig'' V ...
- Major General
Vasily Rakovsky Vasily Stepanovich Rakovsky (; 1 January 1898 – 7 January 1978) was a Soviet Army major general. Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Rakovsky briefly served as a non-commissioned officer without seeing action in 1917 befo ...
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66th Rifle Corps The 66th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 21st Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 61st Rifle Division * 117th Rifle Division * 154th Rifle Division Commanders * Major General Fyodo ...
- Major General
Fyodor Sudakov Fyodor, Fedor (russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian form of the name "Theodore" meaning “God’s Gift”. Fedora () is the feminine form. Fyodor and Fedor are two English transliterations of the same Russian name. It may refer to: Giv ...
:: 61st Rifle Division - Major General Nikolay Prishchepa ::
117th Rifle Division The Soviet 117th Rifle Division was a rifle division that served during the Second World War. Originally formed in 1939 destroyed and reformed during the war. History First Formation Formed on 23 August 1939 in the Volga Military District, under ...
- Colonel
Spiridon Chernyugov Spiridon Sergeyevich Chernyugov (; 27 December 1900 – 1 November 1960) was a Soviet Army major general. Chernyugov joined the Red Guards in late 1917 and transferred to the Red Army in early 1918, serving as an orderly and later as a Red Army ma ...
:: 154th Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Fokanov : 25th Mechanized Corps - Major General
Semyon Krivoshein Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein (russian: Семён Моисе́евич Кривоше́ин; November 28, 1899 in Voronezh, Russian Empire – September 16, 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet tank commander, who played a vital part in th ...
:: 50th Tank Division - Colonel Boris Bakharov :: 55th Tank Division - Colonel Vasily Badanov :: 219th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Pavel Korzun


22nd Army

Lieutenant General
Filipp Yershakov Filipp Afanasyevich Yershakov (; – 9 June 1942) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II. Yershakov led the 22nd Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army during the Battle of Smolensk (1941), Battle of Smolensk an ...
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51st Rifle Corps The 51st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 22nd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 98th Rifle Division * 112th Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural nu ...
:: 98th Rifle Division ::
112th Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *'' ...
:: 153rd Rifle Division :
62nd Rifle Corps The 62nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of t ...
:: 170th Rifle Division :: 174th Rifle Division :: 186th Rifle Division


24th Army

: 52nd Rifle Corps ::
91st Rifle Division The 91st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was first formed in 1939, fought in the Winter War, and was destroyed in the Vyazma Pocket during the Battle of Moscow. It was reformed in ...
:: 119th Rifle Division :: 166th Rifle Division : 53rd Rifle Corps ::
107th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...
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133rd Rifle Division The 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as 133rd Rifle Division at Novosibirsk or Biysk in 1939. The division was part of 1st Shock Army on 1 December 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. It was redesignated as the 18th Guards ...
:: 178th Rifle Division


Northern Front

General Colonel
Markian Popov Markian Mikhaylovich Popov (; 1902–1969) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (26 August 1943), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965). Early life Markian Popov was born in 1902 in Ust-Medvediskaya in the Don Host Oblast (now Volgograd O ...
The front was the
Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. Hi ...
until 24 June.


7th Army (Separate)

Lieutenant General Filip Danilovich Gorelenko :
54th Rifle Division The 54th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was formed in 1936 and fought in the Winter War. The division spent most of World War II in Karelia fighting with Finnish tr ...
- Maj. Gen. I.V. Panin : 71st Rifle Division - Col. V.N. Fedorov : 168th Rifle Division - Col. A.L. Bondarev :
237th Rifle Division The 237th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed in the months just before the start of the German invasion, based on the ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment A table of organization and equipment (TO ...
- Maj. Gen. D.F. Popov : 55th Mixed Aviation Division - Colonel Alexander Bogradetsky


14th Army

Lieutenant General Valerian A. Frolov : 14th Rifle Division - Col. A.A. Zhurba :
52nd Rifle Division The 52nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, the interwar period, World War II, and the Cold War, formed once during the Russian Civil War and three times during the existence of the Soviet Union. ...
- Mj. Gen. N.N. Nikishin : 1st Tank Division - Major General Viktor Ilyich Baranov :
42nd Rifle Corps The 42nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 14th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Its initial commander was Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin. The corps was disbanded on 14 October 1941. The Corps ...
- Major General
Roman Ivanovich Panin Roman Ivanovich Panin (; 28 September 1897 – 1 June 1949) was a Soviet major general from during World War II. An Imperial Russian Army junior officer in World War I, he joined the Red Army in 1919. Panin fought in the Russian Civil War and cont ...
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104th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
- Mj. Gen. S.I. Morozov :: 122nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.S. Shevchenko : 1st Mixed Aviation Division


23rd Army

Lieutenant General P.S. Pshennikov :
19th Rifle Corps The 19th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 142nd Rifle Division * 115th Rifle Division Commanders * Kombrig Vsevolod Yakovlev (14.07.1937 - ...
- Major General
M.N. Gerasimov MN may refer to: Places * Mongolia (ISO 3166-1 country code) * Montenegro (former ISO 3166 country code) * Monaco (FIPS 10-4 country code) * Minnesota, US (postal abbreviation) * Manipur, a state in northeast India * Province of Mantua, or of Ma ...
:: 142nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.P. Mikul’skii :: 115th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.F. Kon’kov :
50th Rifle Corps The 50th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army on 22 June 1941. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization On 22 June 1941, the corps included the following units: * 43rd Rifle Division * 70t ...
- Major General V.I. S'cherbakov :: 43rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kirpichnikov ::
70th Rifle Division The 70th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army, formed twice. Formed in 1934 at Samara, the division was transferred to the Leningrad Military District in the late 1930s and fought in the Wint ...
- Major General Andrey Fedyunin ::
123rd Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
- Col. Ye.Ye. Tsukanov : 10th Mechanized Corps - Major General I. G. Lazarev :: 21st Tank Division - Col. L.V. Bunin :: 24th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Chesnokov :: 198th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kryukov : 5th Mixed Aviation Division :41st Bomber Aviation Division


Front Assets

:177th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 177th Rifle Division - Col. A.F. Mashoshin :191st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 191st Rifle Division - Col. D.K. Luk’yanov :1st Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 1st Mechanized Corps - Major General M. L. Cherniavsky ::3rd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 3rd Tank Division - Col. K.Yu. Andreev ::163rd Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 163rd Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. N.M. Kuznetsov Frontal aviation :2nd Mixed Aviation Division :39th Fighter Aviation Division :3rd PVO Fighter Aviation Division :54th PVO Fighter Aviation Division


Northwestern Front

General Colonel Fyodor Isodorovich Kuznetsov Source: Baltic Special Military District until 22 June.


8th Army (Soviet Union), 8th Army

Lieutenant General Pyotr Sobennikov :10th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 10th Rifle Corps - Major General I.F. Nikolaev ::10th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 10th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Fadeev ::48th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.V. Bogdanov ::90th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 90th Rifle Division - Col. Mikhail Golubev :11th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 11th Rifle Corps - Major General M.S. Shumilov ::11th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 11th Rifle Division - Col. N.A. Sokolov ::125th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 125th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.P. Bogaichuk :12th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 12th Mechanized Corps - Major General Nikolai Shestapolov, N.M. Shestopalov ::23rd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 23rd Tank Division - Col. T.S. Orlenko ::202nd Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 202nd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.K. Gorbachev


11th Army (Soviet Union), 11th Army

Lieutenant General Vasili Morozov (general), V. I. Morosov :23rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 23rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.F. Pavlov :126th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 126th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. M.A. Kuznetsov :128th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 128th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. A.S. Zotov :16th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 16th Rifle Corps - Major General F.S. Ivanov ::5th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 5th Rifle Division - Col. Fyodor Ozerov ::33rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 33rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Karp Zheleznikov ::188th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 188th Rifle Division - Col. P.I. Ivanov :29th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 29th Rifle Corps - Major General A.G. Samokhin ::179th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 179th Rifle Division - Col. A.I. Ustinov ::184th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 184th Rifle Division - Col. M.V. Vinogradov :3rd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 3rd Mechanized Corps - Major General Alexey Kurkin ::2nd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 2nd Tank Division - Mj. Gen. Yegor Solyankin ::5th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 5th Tank Division - Col. F.F. Fedorov ::84th Motorized Division (Soviet Union), 84th Motorized Division - Mj. Gen. P.I. Fomenko


27th Army (Soviet Union), 27th Army

Lieutenant General Nikolai Berzarin :16th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 16th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. I.M. Lyubovtsev :67th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. N.A. Dedaev :3rd Rifle Brigade (Soviet Union), 3rd Rifle Brigade :22nd Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 22nd Rifle Corps - Major General Mikhail Dukhanov ::180th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 180th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Missan ::182nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 182nd Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Kuryshev :24th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 24th Rifle Corps - Major General K. Kachalov ::181st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 181st Rifle Division - Col. P.V. Borisov ::183rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 183rd Rifle Division - Col. P.N. Tupikov


Front Assets

:5th Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 5th Airborne Corps - Major General Ivan Bezugly ::9th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 9th Airborne Brigade ::10th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 10th Airborne Brigade ::201st Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 201st Airborne Brigade Frontal aviation :57th Fighter Aviation Division :4th Mixed Aviation Division :6th Mixed Aviation Division :7th Mixed Aviation Division :8th Mixed Aviation Division :21st PVO Fighter Aviation Division


Western Front (Soviet Union), Western Front

General Colonel Dmitry Pavlov (general), Dmitry Grigorevich Pavlov Western Special Military District until 22 June.


3rd Army (Soviet Union), 3rd Army

Lieutenant General Vasily Kuznetsov (general), Vasily Kuznetsov :4th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Rifle Corps- Major General Yevgeny Yegorov (general), Yevgeny Yegorov ::27th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 27th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Stepanov (general), Aleksandr Stepanov ::56th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 56th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Semyon Sakhnov ::85th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 85th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Aleksandr Bondovsky :11th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 11th Mechanized Corps - Major General Dmitry Mostevenko ::29th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 29th Tank Division - Col. N.P. Studnev ::33rd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 33rd Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Panov ::204th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 204th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Pirogov


4th Army (Soviet Union), 4th Army

Lieutenant General Aleksandr Korobkov :49th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 49th Rifle Division - Col. C.F. Vasil’ev :75th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 75th Rifle Division - Col. Nedwigin :28th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 28th Rifle Corps - Major General Vasily Popov (Soviet general), Vasily Popov ::6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 6th Rifle Division - Col. M.A. Popsiu-Shapko ::42nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 42nd Rifle Division - Major General Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko, Ivan Lazarenko :14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 14th Mechanized Corps - Major General Stepan Oborin ::22nd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 22nd Tank Division - Mj. Gen. V.P. Puganov ::30th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 30th Tank Division - Col. Semen Bogdanov ::205th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 205th Motor Rifle Division - Col. F.F. Kudjurov


10th Army (Soviet Union), 10th Army

Lieutenant General Konstantin Golubev :1st Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 1st Rifle Corps - Major General F.D. Rubtzov ::2nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 2nd Rifle Division - Col. M.D. Grishin ::8th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 8th Rifle Division - Col. N.I. Fomin :5th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 5th Rifle Corps - Major General A.V. Garnov ::13th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 13th Rifle Division - Col. A.Z. Naumov ::86th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 86th Rifle Division - Col. M.A. Zashibalov ::113th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 113th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Kh.N. Alaverdov :6th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union), 6th Cavalry Corps - Major General I.S. Nikitin ::6th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 6th Cavalry Division - Mj. Gen. Mikhail Konstantinov ::36th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 36th Cavalry Division - Mj. Gen. E.S. Zybin :6th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 6th Mechanized Corps - Major General Mikhail Khatskilevich ::4th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 4th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. A.G. Potaturchev ::7th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 7th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. S.V. Borzilov ::29th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 29th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.P. Bikdjanov :13th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 13th Mechanized Corps - Major General Pyotr Akhlyustin ::25th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 25th Tank Division - Col. N.M. Nikiforov ::31st Tank Division (Soviet Union), 31st Tank Division - Col. S.A. Kalikhovich ::208th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 208th Motor Rifle Division - Col. Vladimir Nichiporovich


Front Assets

:2nd Rifle Corps - Major General Arkady Yermakov ::100th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 100th Rifle Division - Major General Ivan Russiyanov ::161st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 161st Rifle Division - Colonel Alexey Mikhaylov (officer), Alexey Mikhaylov :21st Rifle Corps - Major General Vladimir Borisovich Borisov, Vladimir Borisov ::17th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 17th Rifle Division - Major General Terenty Batsanov ::24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 24th Rifle Division - Major General Kuzma Galitsky ::37th Rifle Division - Colonel Andrey Chekharin :44th Rifle Corps - Major General Vasily Yushkevich ::64th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 64th Rifle Division - Colonel Sergey Iovlev ::108th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 108th Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Mavrichev :47th Rifle Corps - Major General Stepan Povetkin ::50th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 50th Rifle Division - Major General Vasily Yevdokimov ::55th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 55th Rifle Division - Colonel Dmitry Ivanyuk ::121st Rifle Division - Major General Pyotr Zykov ::143rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 143rd Rifle Division - Major General Dmitry Safonov :4th Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Airborne Corps - Major General Aleksey Semenovich Zhadov, Alexey Zhadov ::7th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 7th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Mikhail Tikhonov ::8th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 8th Airborne Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Onufriyev ::214th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 214th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexey Levashov :17th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 17th Mechanized Corps - Major General Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (general), Mikhail Petrov ::27th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 27th Tank Division - Colonel Alexey Akhmanov ::36th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 36th Tank Division - Colonel Sergey Miroshnikov ::209th Motorized (Soviet Union), 209th Motorized Division - Colonel Alexey Muravyov (colonel), Alexey Muravyov :20th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 20th Mechanized Corps - Major General Andrey Nikitin (general), Andrey Nikitin ::26th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 26th Tank Division - Major General Viktor Obukhov ::38th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 38th Tank Division - Colonel Sergey Kapustin (officer), Sergey Kapustin ::210th Motorized Division (Soviet Union), 210th Motorized Division - Major General Feofan Parkhomenko Frontal aviation :43rd Fighter Aviation Division :12th Bomber Aviation Division :13th Bomber Aviation Division :9th Mixed Aviation Division :10th Mixed Aviation Division :11th Mixed Aviation Division :184th PVO Fighter Aviation Division :Additionally 59th Fighter Aviation Division, 59th and 60th Fighter Aviation Divisions were forming.


Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Southwestern Front

General Colonel Mikhail Kirponos Kiev Special Military District until 22 June.


5th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Army

Lieutenant General M.I. Potapov :15th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Fedyuninsky ::45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 45th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. G.I. Sherstyuk ::62nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 62nd Rifle Division - Col. M.P. Timoshenko :27th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 27th Rifle Corps - Major General P.D. Artememko ::87th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 87th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Filipp Alyabushev ::124th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 124th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.G. Sushii ::135th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 135th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.N. Smekhotvorov :22nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 22nd Mechanized Corps - Major General S.M. Kondrusev ::19th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 19th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. K.A. Semenchenko ::41st Tank Division (Soviet Union), 41st Tank Division - Col. P.P. Pavlov ::215th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 215th Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.A. Barabanov :''Transferred to 5th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd'' :9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 9th Mechanized Corps - Major General Konstantin Rokossovsky ::20th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 20th Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Katukov ::35th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 35th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. N.A. Novikov ::131st Motorized (Soviet Union), 131st Motorized Division - Col. N.V. Kalinin :19th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 19th Mechanized Corps - Major General Nikolay Feklenko ::40th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 40th Tank Division - Col. M.V. Shirobokov ::43rd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 43rd Tank Division - Col. I.G. Tsibin


6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army

Lieutenant General Ivan Muzychenko :6th Rifle Corps - Major General I.I. Alekseev ::41st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 41st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. G.N. Mikushev ::97th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 97th Rifle Division - Col. N.M. Zakharov ::159th Rifle Division (1940–1941), 159th Rifle Division - Col. Ivan Mashchenko :37th Rifle Corps - Major General S.P. Zibin ::80th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 80th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.I. Prokhorov ::139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 139th Rifle Division - Col. N.L. Loginov ::141st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 141st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Ya.I. Tonkonogov :5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union), 5th Cavalry Corps - Major General F.V. Kamkov ::3rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 3rd Cavalry Division - Major General Mikhail Maleyev ::14th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 14th Cavalry Division - Vasily Kryuchenkin :4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Mechanized Corps - Major General Andrey Vlasov ::8th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 8th Tank Division - Col. P.S. Fotchenkov ::32nd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 32nd Tank Division - Col. E.G. Pushkin ::81st Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 81st Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.M. Varipaev :''Transferred to 6th Army from 26th Army on evening of June 22nd'' :8th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 8th Mechanized Corps - Major General Dmitry Ryabyshev ::12th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 12th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. T.A. Mishanin ::34th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 34th Tank Division - Col. I.V. Vasil'ev ::7th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 7th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.G. Gerasimov :''Transferred to 6th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd'' :15th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 15th Mechanized Corps - Major General I.I. Karpezo ::10th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 10th Tank Division - Mj. Gen S.Ya. Ogurtsov ::37th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 37th Tank Division - Col. F.G. Anikushkin ::212th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 212th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.V. Baranov


12th Army (Soviet Union), 12th Army

Lieutenant General Pavel Ponedelin :13th Rifle Corps - Major General Nikolai Kirillov ::44th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 44th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. S.A. Tkachenko ::58th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 58th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. N.I. Proshkin ::192nd Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 192nd Mountain Division - Col. S.D. Gubin :17th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Galanin ::60th Mountain Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. M.B. Salikhov ::96th Mountain Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Ivan Shepetov ::164th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 164th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Chervinskii :16th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 16th Mechanized Corps - Major General A.D. Sokolov ::15th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 15th Tank Division - Col. V.I. Polozkov ::39th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 39th Tank Division - Col. N.V. Starkov ::240th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 240th Motor Rifle Division - Col. I.V. Gorbenko


26th Army (Soviet Union), 26th Army

Lieutenant General F. Ya. Kostenko :8th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 8th Rifle Corps - Major General M.G. Snegov ::72nd Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 72nd Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. Pavle Abramidze, P.I. Abramidze ::99th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 99th Rifle Division - Col. N.I.Dement'ev ::173rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 173rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.V.Verzin


Front Assets

:31st Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 31st Rifle Corps - Major General Anton Lopatin ::193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 193rd Rifle Division - Col. A.K. Berestov ::195th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 195th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.N. Nesmelov ::200th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 200th Rifle Division - Col. Ivan Lyudnikov :36th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 36th Rifle Corps - Major General P.V. Sisoev ::140th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 140th Rifle Division - Col. Luka Basanets ::146th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 146th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.M. Gerasimov ::228th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 228th Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Il’in :49th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 49th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Alekseyevich Kornilov ::190th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 190th Rifle Division - Col. G.A. Zverev ::197th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 197th Rifle Division - Col. S.D. Gubin ::199th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 199th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Alekseev :55th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 55th Rifle Corps - Major General Konstantin Koroteev ::130th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 130th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.A. Vizzhili ::169th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 169th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.E. Turunov ::189th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 189th Rifle Division - Combrig A.S. Chichkanov :1st Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 1st Airborne Corps - Major General Matvei Usenko ::1st Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 1st Airborne Brigade ::204th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 204th Airborne Brigade ::211th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 211th Airborne Brigade ::213rd Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 213rd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.M.Osminskiy :24th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 24th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vladimir Chistyakov ::45th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 45th Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Solomatin ::49th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 49th Tank Division - Col. K.F. Shvetsov ::216th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 216th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A. Sarkisyan Frontal aviation :44th Fighter Aviation Division :64th Fighter Aviation Division :19th Bomber Aviation Division :62nd Bomber Aviation Division :14th Mixed Aviation Division :15th Mixed Aviation Division :16th Mixed Aviation Division :17th Mixed Aviation Division :63rd Mixed Aviation Division :36th PVO Fighter Aviation Division


Southern Front (Soviet Union), Southern Front

General Colonel Ivan Tyulenev


9th Army (Soviet Union), 9th Army (Separate)

Lieutenant General Yakov Cherevichenko :14th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 14th Rifle Corps - Major General E.G. Egorov ::25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 25th Rifle Division - Col. A.S. Zakharchenko ::51st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 51st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.G. Tsirul’nikov :35th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 35th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Dashichev, I.F. Dashichev ::95th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 95th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. A.I. Pastrevich ::176th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 176th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.M.Martsinkevich :48th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 48th Rifle Corps - Major General Rodion Malinovsky ::30th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 30th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. S.G. Galaktionov ::74th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 74th Rifle Division - Col. F.Ye. Sheverdin ::150th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 150th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.I. Khorun :2nd Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union), 2nd Cavalry Corps - Major General Pavel Alexeyevich Belov ::5th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 5th Cavalry Division - Colonel Viktor Kirillovich Baranov ::9th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 9th Cavalry Division - Col. A.F. Bychkovsky :2nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 2nd Mechanized Corps - Major General Y.V. Novoselsky ::11th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 11th Tank Division - Col. G.I. Kuzmin ::16th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 16th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Mindro ::15th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 15th Motorized Division - Col. Nikolay Belov (general), Nikolay Belov :18th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 18th Mechanized Corps - Major General P.V. Volokh ::44th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 44th Tank Division - Col. V.P. Krimov ::47th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 47th Tank Division - Col. Georgy Rodin ::218th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 218th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.N. Shilov :20th Mixed Aviation Division :21st Mixed Aviation Division :45th Mixed Aviation Division :65th Fighter Aviation Division (forming) :66th Fighter Aviation Division (forming)


Front Assets

:7th Rifle Corps - Major General K.L. Dobroserdov ::116th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 116th Rifle Division - Col. Ya.F. Eremenko ::196th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 196th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. K.E. Kulikov ::206th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 206th Rifle Division - Col. Sergey Gorshkov (general), Sergey Gorshkov :9th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 9th Rifle Corps - Major General Pavel Batov ::106th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 106th Rifle Division - Combrig M.S. Tkachev ::156th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 156th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.V. Chernyaev ::32nd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 32nd Cavalry Division - Col. A.I. Batskalevich :3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 3rd Airborne Corps - Major General Vasili Glazunov ::5th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 5th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexander Rodimtsev ::6th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 6th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Viktor Zholudev ::212th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 212th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Ivan Zatevakhin :47th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 47th Rifle Division


Air Forces


Axis


Luftwaffe

The directive issued to the Luftwaffe for Barbarossa ordered that Luftflotte 2, under the command of Albert Kesselring was to be the strongest Air Fleet. Kesselring was assigned to supporting Army Group Centre, which was to capture Minsk, Smolensk and Moscow. Kesselring was given 8th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps VIII (a specialised ground attack Corps, commanded by tactical specialist Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen), 2nd Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps II (commanded by Bruno Loerzer) and the 1st Anti-Aircraft Corps (1st AA Corps under Walther von Axthelm). Army Group South was supported by Luftflotte 4, containing 5th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps V (under Robert Ritter von Greim) and 4th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps IV (under Kurt Pflugbeil). The Air Fleet and Army Group were responsible for capturing Kiev, the Crimea and the Caucasus oilfields. Army Group North was supported by Luftflotte 1, and Luftflotte 5. Luftflotte 5 conducted operations in the Arctic near Murmansk. Luftflotte 1 supported operations in the Baltic Sea, Baltic States and near, in and over Leningrad. Luftflotte 1 contained 1st Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps I under the command of Helmuth Förster.


Other Axis air forces

The Romanian Air Force was considered weak by the OKL, and therefore unlikely to play a great role in the ground fighting. Far more attention was given by the OKW to training and preparing the Romanian Army. Hitler, on 18 June 1941, declared that the primary mission of the Romanian air arm was to defend Romania and the Romanian oilfields. Only when those forces were sufficient, could they divert the remaining forces to ground support operations for ''Barbarossa''. On 21 June 1941, it possessed a balanced fleet of 53 Squadrons; 11 bomber (five modern), 17 fighter (nine modern), 15 reconnaissance, six liaison, two flying boat, one transport and one air ambulance unit. On the 22 June, there was 160 fighters and 82 bombers in service. Total strength amounted to 380 aircraft. Only 30 of the Romanian fighters were Bf 109s, of the E model. However, this small force did not remain inferior in numbers for along. Despite a weak inter-war economy, the aircraft industry was run very efficiently, and they were able to produce some very capable aircraft; such as the IAR 37 and IAR 39. Unlike the army that stagnated, it was able to garner the cream of the Romanian officer corps. With the right support, organisation and modern equipment, it was able to grow in number and match its enemies in quality. In air defence and ground support operations it performed well, but failed in strategic bomber and naval operations owing to a lack of doctrine. Within a few weeks of ''Barbarossa'' beginning, it was able to put up 1,061 aircraft, including 400 trainers. The modern combat aircraft were focused into one unified Air Combat Command, or GAL (Gruparea Aeriana Lupta), while the obsolete types were given the Romanian Fourth Army, operating under the German Army Group South.


Soviet


Organisation

Since 1935, Soviet military aviation had been divided between the army (VVS KA) and the navy (VVS VMF). The VVS KA had been split into four different organisations owing to faulty conclusions drawn from the Winter War. Owing to a lack of coordination in close support operations with the Red Army, the entire VVS KA was subordinated to the field armies. The existence of too many different branches under separate commands in Soviet air power caused coordination problems (made worse by Axis bombing during ''Barbarossa''). Most Soviet bomber units could not coordinate with fighter aviation, consequently they did not have fighter escort for long periods.Bergström 2007, p. 134. The total strength of the VVS amounted to 61 divisions; 18 fighter, nine bomber and 34 mixed. Five brigades were also included. The Front Air Forces were divided into Districts (later 'Fronts') and the home defence, the PVO. This element had 40.5 per cent of the Soviet air strength. The Army Air Forces comprised 43.7 per cent of the VVS' strength. The liaison squadrons were a collection of individual squadrons assigned to different army corps of the ground army (KAE). They comprised only 2.3 per cent. The Soviet order of battle:


Leningrad and Baltic Fronts

*VVS
Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. Hi ...
, later the VVS Northern Front **1st Composite Air Division (1st SAD), subordinate to the 14th Army *** 10 BAP (Bomber Aviation Regiment) *** 137 BAP *** 145th Fighter Aviation Regiment (145 IAP) *** 147 IAP **55th Composite Aviation Division (55 SAD) (subordinated to the 7th Army) *** 72 SBAP (High Speed Bomber Aviation Regiment) *** 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ** 5 SAD (subordinated to the 23rd Army) *** 7 IAP *** 159 IAP *** 158 IAP ** 41 SAD (subordinate to the 23rd Army) *** 201 SBAP *** 202 SBAP *** 205 SBAP ** 3rd Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) *** 191 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) *** 44 IAP ** 54 IAD *** 26 IAP *** 157 IAP *** 311 RAP ** 2 SAD *** 2 SBAP *** SBAP 44 *** 58 SBAP *** 65 ShAD (Ground Attack Aviation Division) ** 39 IAD *** 154 IAP *** 155 IAP *** 156 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,270 aircraft.Bergström 2007, p. 131. * VVS Baltic Special Military District, later the VVS North-Western Front ** 8 SAD *** 15 IAP *** 31 IAP *** 61 ShAP. ** 57 IAD *** 42 IAP *** 49 IAP *** 54 SBAP ** 7 SAD ***10 IAP *** 9 SBAP *** 46 BAP *** 241 SBAP ** 6 SAD *** 21 IAP *** 31 SBAP *** 40 BAP *** 148 IAP ** 4 SAD *** 38 IAP *** 35 SBAP *** 50 SBAP *** 53 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,211 aircraft.


Western and South Western Fronts

*VVS Western Military District, later the VVS Western Front ** 313 RAP **314 RAP ** 9 Mixed Air Division (SAD) (attached to 10th Army (Soviet Union), 10th Army near Bialystock) *** 13 SBAP *** 41 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) *** 124 IAP ***126 IAP ***129 IAP ** 10 SAD (attached to 4th Army (Soviet Union), 4th Army near Brest-Litovsk) *** 33 IAP *** 74 ShAP *** 123 IAP *** 39 SBAP ** 11 SAD (attached to 3rd Army (Soviet Union), 3rd Army near Grodno-Lida) ***16 SBAP *** 122 IAP *** 127 IAP ** 12 BAD (Vitebsk) *** 6 SBAP *** 43 SBAP *** 128 SBAP *** 209 SBAP *** 215 SBAP ** 43 IAD (Minsk and Smolensk) *** 160 IAP *** 161 IAP *** 162nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, 162 IAP *** 163 IAP ** 13 BAD (Bobruysk) *** 24 SBAP *** 97 SBAP *** 121 SBAP *** 125 SBAP *** 130 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,789 aircraft. * VVS Kiev Special Military District, later the VVS South-Western Front ** 315 RAP and 316 RAP ** 14 SAD (5th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Army, Lutsk area) *** 17 IAP *** 46 IAP *** 89 IAP ** 62 BAD (Kiev) *** 52 SBAP *** 94 SBAP *** 243 SBAP *** 245 SBAP ** 15 SAD (attached to the 6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army), Lvov) *** 23 IAP *** 28 IAP *** 66 ShAP *** 164 IAP ** 16 SAD (attached to 6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army), Ternopol) *** 86 SBAP *** 87 IAP *** 92 IAP *** 226 SBAP *** 227 SBAP ** 63 SAD (attached to 26th Army (Soviet Union), 26th Army), Stryy) *** 20 IAP *** 62 IAP *** 91 IAP *** 165 IAP **64 SAD (12th Army (Soviet Union), 12th Army), Stanislav ***12 IAP *** 149 IAP *** 166 IAP *** 246 IAP *** 247 IAP **17 BAD (Proskurov) ***48 SBAP ***224 SBAP ***225 SBAP ***242SBAP ***244 SBAP **36 IAD (Kiev) *** 2 IAP *** 43 IAP *** 254 IAP *** 255 IAP ** 19 BAD (Bila Tserkva) *** 33 SBAP ***136 BAP *** 38 SBAP ** 44 IAD (Vinnitsa) *** 88 IAP *** 248 IAP *** 249 IAP *** 252 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,913 aircraft.Niehorster
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Odessa Front and Long Range Aviation

*VVS Odessa Military District, later the VVS Southern Front ** 146 RAP ** 317 RAP ** 20 SAD (Beltsy and Tiropol) *** 4 IAP *** 45 SBAP *** 55 IAP *** 211 SBAP ** 21 SAD (Bolgrad-Vorms) *** 5 BAP *** 69 IAP *** 67 IAP *** 168 IAP *** 299 ShAP The total strength of the front was 950 aircraft.Bergström 2007, p. 132. * DBA (Long-range Strategic Bomber Aviation) ** 1 BAK (Bomber Aviation Group) (Novgorod) *** 40 DBAD *** 53 DBAD *** 200 DBAD *** 7 TDBAP ** 2 BAK (Kursk) *** 35 DBAD *** 100 DBAD *** 219 DBAD *** 223 DBAD *** 48 DBAD *** 51 DBAD *** 220 DBAD *** 221 DBAD *** 222 DBAD ** 3 BAK (Smolensk) *** 52 DBAD *** 3 TBDAP *** 98 DBAD *** 212 DBAD *** 42 DBAD *** 1 TBDAP *** 96 DBAD *** 207 DBAD ** 4 BAK (Zaporozhye) *** 22 DBAD *** 8 DBAD *** 11 DBAD *** 21 DBAD *** 50 DBAD *** 81 DBA *** 299 DBAP *** 231 DBAP *** 228 DBAP ** 18 DBAD (Independent Division) (Skomorokhy and Boryspil) *** 14 TDBAP *** 90 DBAP *** 93 DBAP The total strength of the front was 1,332 aircraft; 1,122 DB-3s, 20 TB-3s, and nine TB-7s.


Notes


Bibliography

* Bergström, Christer. ''Barbarossa - The Air Battle: July–December 1941'', London: Chevron/Ian Allan, 2007. . * Plocher, Hermann. ''The German Air Force versus Russia, 1941''. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. * Plocher, Hermann. ''The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942''. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. * Statiev, Alexander. ''Antonescu's Eagles against Stalin's Falcons: The Romanian Air Force, 1920-1941'', in 'The Journal of Military History', Volume 66, No. 4 (Oct. 2002), pp. 1085–1113 * {{cite book , last = Glantz , first = David M. , title = The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944 , publisher = Kansas University Press , year = 2002 , isbn = 0-7006-1208-4 , url-access = registration , url = https://archive.org/details/battleforleningr00glan


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