Name of two German Army Groups in the Eastern Front of World War II
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For the French army group during the First World War, see Army Group Centre (France).
Army Group Centre
German: Heeresgruppe Mitte
Active
22 June 1941 – 25 January 1945 25 January 1945 – 11 May 1945
Country
Nazi Germany
Branch
Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Commanders
Notable commanders
Fedor von Bock
Military unit
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 during the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as one of the three German Army formations assigned to the invasion.
After Army Group North was trapped in the Courland Pocket in mid-1944, it was renamed to Army Group Courland and the first Army Group Centre was renamed "Army Group North". The second iteration of Army Group Centre was formed by the redesignation of Army Group A as the replacement for the first Army Group Centre.
Army Group Centre became ArmyGroup North and ArmyGroup A became ArmyGroupCentre. Between January and February 1945, ArmyGroup North sustained 213,000...
Army Group East, created in 1915 ArmyGroupCentre, created in 1915 ArmyGroup Reserve was established in 1917. ArmyGroup Flanders, created in September...
ArmyGroup South (German: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of one of three German ArmyGroups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September...
been put together from elements of ArmyGroup A (shattered in the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive), ArmyGroupCentre (similarly largely destroyed in the...
ArmyGroup A (German: Heeresgruppe A) was the name of three distinct armygroups of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II....
The 4th Panzer Army (German: 4. Panzerarmee), operating as Panzer Group 4 (Panzergruppe 4) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, was...
aerodromes. ArmyGroup Rear Areas were also responsible for the transfer of prisoners of war to the rear. ArmyGroup North, ArmyGroupCentre and ArmyGroup South...
1944, the Red Army attacked ArmyGroupCentre in Byelorussia, with the objective of encircling and destroying its main component armies. By 28 June, the...
started shelling Berlin's city centre, while Marshal Ivan Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front broke through ArmyGroupCentre and advanced towards the southern...
of the German troops of ArmyGroupCentre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) and many of ArmyGroup Ostmark (formerly known as ArmyGroup South) were killed or captured...
April 1945) ArmyGroup A ArmyGroup B ArmyGroup C ArmyGroup D ArmyGroup E (Heeresgruppe Löhr) ArmyGroup F ArmyGroup G ArmyGroup H ArmyGroup Africa (Heeresgruppe...
ArmyGroup B (German: Heeresgruppe B) was the name of four distinct German armygroup commands that saw action during World War II. The first Army Group...
into Army Norway, ArmyGroup North, ArmyGroupCentre and ArmyGroup South, alongside three Luftflotten (air fleets, the air force equivalent of army groups)...
ArmyGroup C (German: Heeresgruppe C) was an armygroup of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. In its first deployment between 1939 and 1941, its...
Deßloch as both commander-in-chief and chief of staff) - Air support for ArmyGroup South VIII Fliegerkorps (8th Air Corps) Luftflotte 6 (6th Air Fleet) (Robert...
its forces and areas of responsibility divided between ArmyGroup South and ArmyGroupCentre. Manstein inherited responsibility for the massive breach...
Global Information
Nazi Germany
Heer (
Wehrmacht)