Name of three distinct German Army groups in the Eastern Front of World War II
Army Group South
German: Heeresgruppe Süd
Briefing at the headquarters of Army Group South at Poltava on 1 June 1942
Active
1 September – 26 October 1939 22 June 1941 – 9 July 1942 9 February 1943 – 4 April 1944 23 September 1944 – 1 April 1945
Country
Germany
Branch
Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Size
On 1 July 1942: 1,210,861 in total[1]
Engagements
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Brody
Operation München
Battle of Uman
Battle of Kiev
First Battle of Kharkov
Crimean Campaign
Battle of Rostov
Second Battle of Kharkov
Operation Blue
Battle of Voronezh
Third Battle of Kharkov
Battle of Kursk
Operation Citadel
Belgorod-Kharkov offensive
Battle of the Dnieper
Battle of Kiev
Dnieper-Carpathian offensive
Zhitomir-Berdichev offensive
Kirovograd offensive
Korsun-Cherkassy pocket
Rovno-Lutsk offensive
Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
Uman–Botoșani offensive
Battle of Debrecen
Budapest offensive
Siege of Budapest
Operation Konrad
Operation Spring Awakening
Vienna offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders
Gerd von Rundstedt, Fedor von Bock, Walter von Reichenau,
Erich von Manstein
Military unit
Not to be confused with Army Group South Ukraine.
Army Group South (German: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of one 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 South was led by Gerd von Rundstedt and his chief of staff Erich von Manstein.
Two years later, Army Group South became one of three army groups into which Germany organised their forces for Operation Barbarossa. Army Group South's principal objective was to capture Soviet Ukraine and its capital Kiev.[2]
In September 1944, the Army Group South Ukraine was renamed Army Group South in Eastern Hungary. It fought in Western Hungary until March 1945 and retired to Austria at the end of the Second World War, where it was renamed Army Group Ostmark on 2 April 1945.
^Liedtke, Gregory. Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943. Wolverhampton Military Studies, 2016, p. 228.
^Robert Kirchubel (2012). Operation Barbarossa 1941 (1): Army Group South. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 3–10. ISBN 978-1846036514. Illustrated.
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