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Armee</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A,_Griechenland,_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-164-0368-14A%2C_Griechenland%2C_deutsche_Soldaten_in_Athen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="504" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Soldiers from the 12th Army on the Acropolis of Athens</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Active</th><td class="infobox-data">13 October 1939 – 31 December 1942<br />April - May 1945</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg/16px-Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg/24px-Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg/32px-Heer_-_decal_for_helmet_1942.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="348" data-file-height="439" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/German_Army_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="German Army (Wehrmacht)">German army</a> (<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Balkenkreuz.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Balkenkreuz.svg/16px-Balkenkreuz.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Balkenkreuz.svg/24px-Balkenkreuz.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Balkenkreuz.svg/32px-Balkenkreuz.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Field_army" title="Field army">Field army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data">Army Group A (May 1940)<br />OKH/OKW (1941)<br />OKW (1942/43)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">Invasion of Yugoslavia</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Greece" title="German invasion of Greece">Invasion of Greece</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Battle of Berlin</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>12th Army</b> (German: <i>12. Armee</i>) was a <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <a href="/wiki/Field_army" title="Field army">field army</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaign_in_the_west"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Campaign in the west</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Campaign in the west"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 12th Army was activated on October 13, 1939, with General <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_List" title="Wilhelm List">Wilhelm List</a> in command.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First seeing defensive action along the <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Line" title="Siegfried Line">Siegfried Line</a>, the army was part of <a href="/wiki/Rundstedt" class="mw-redirect" title="Rundstedt">Rundstedt's</a> <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_A" title="Army Group A">Army Group A</a> responsible for the <a href="/wiki/Ardennes" title="Ardennes">Ardennes</a> offensive. It had under its command seven infantry divisions and one mountain division in May 1940. After the breakthrough on the <a href="/wiki/Meuse" title="Meuse">Meuse</a> near <a href="/wiki/Sedan,_Ardennes" title="Sedan, Ardennes">Sedan</a>, the infantry divisions fought their way to the <a href="/wiki/Aisne" title="Aisne">Aisne</a>. In the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Fall_Rot" title="Fall Rot">Fall Rot</a> the army marched to the Swiss border and secured the <a href="/wiki/Demarcation_line_(France)" title="Demarcation line (France)">demarcation line</a> with <a href="/wiki/Zone_libre" title="Zone libre">Zone libre</a>. For the rest of 1940 the army was assigned to occupation duties in France.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Balkan_campaign">Balkan campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Balkan campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 1941, an agreement between Field Marshal List and the <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgarian</a> General Staff allowed the passage of German troops. On the night of February 28, German Army units crossed the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> from Romania and took up strategic positions in Bulgaria. </p><p>On 6 April, units of the 12th army advanced into Yugoslavia and Greece. The <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavs crumbled first</a>. After six months of fighting the Italians, the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Greece">Greeks could not stand up to the 12th Army's fifteen divisions</a>, four of which were armored. As the Greek army capitulated, four Commonwealth divisions rushed from North Africa to aid the Greeks were forced to evacuate after defeats at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Olympus_(1941)" title="Battle of Olympus (1941)">Olympus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae_(1941)" title="Battle of Thermopylae (1941)">Thermopylae</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elements of the army then participated in the conquest of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Mercury" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Mercury">Crete</a> and the Aegean Islands. From June 1941 to the end of 1942 the army served occupation duties in Croatia, Serbia and Greece. </p><p>The 12th Army became <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_E" title="Army Group E">Army Group E</a> (<i>Heeresgruppe E</i>) on January 1, 1943. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reactivation">Reactivation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reactivation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 12th Army was reconstituted on the Western Front near the <a href="/wiki/Elbe_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Elbe River">Elbe River</a> on April 10, 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the command staff of the dissolved <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_North" title="Army Group North">Army Group North</a>, the army consisted of <a href="/wiki/XXXVIII_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XXXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">XLVIII</a>, <a href="/wiki/XX_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">XX</a>, and <a href="/wiki/XXXI_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XXXI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">XXXI</a> Army Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under General <a href="/wiki/Walther_Wenck" title="Walther Wenck">Walther Wenck</a>, the 12th Army made the last attempt by a <a href="/wiki/German_Army_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="German Army (Wehrmacht)">German Army</a> to relieve the besieged capital during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" title="Battle of Berlin">Battle of Berlin</a>. Although it successfully reached <a href="/wiki/Potsdam" title="Potsdam">Potsdam</a>, the 12th Army was stopped by numerically superior Soviet <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> forces and forced to abandon the effort to relieve Berlin. The 12th Army then linked up with the remnants of General <a href="/wiki/Theodor_Busse" title="Theodor Busse">Theodor Busse</a>'s decimated <a href="/wiki/9th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="9th Army (Wehrmacht)">9th Army</a> south of Beelitz and, in the confusion of the Soviet breakthrough, provided a corridor to the west for soldiers and refugees alike to reach and cross the partially destroyed Elbe River bridge at <a href="/wiki/Tangerm%C3%BCnde" title="Tangermünde">Tangermünde</a> and surrender to <a href="/wiki/Ninth_United_States_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth United States Army">American forces</a> between May 4 and May 7, 1945. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commanders">Commanders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> </th> <th class="unsortable">Portrait </th> <th>Commander</th> <th data-sort-type="date">Took office</th> <th data-sort-type="date">Left office</th> <th>Time in office </th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">1</td><td style="; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="width:px;height:px;overflow:hidden;position:relative"> <div style="position:relative;top:-px;left:-px"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487,_Wilhelm_List.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wilhelm List"><img alt="Wilhelm List" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/100px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/150px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/200px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg 2x" data-file-width="546" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div></div></td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><span style="display:none">List, Wilhelm</span><i>Generaloberst</i><br /><b><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_List" title="Wilhelm List">Wilhelm List</a></b><br /><small>(1880–1971)</small></td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">13 October 1939</td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">29 October 1941</td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><span data-sort-value="7002747000000000000♠"></span>2 years, 16 days</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">2</td><td style="; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="width:px;height:px;overflow:hidden;position:relative"> <div style="position:relative;top:-px;left:-px"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:List%26Kuntze_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Walter Kuntze"><img alt="Walter Kuntze" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg/100px-List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg/150px-List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-List%26Kuntze_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="241" data-file-height="254" /></a></span></div></div></td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><span style="display:none">Kuntze, Walter</span><i>General der Pioniere</i><br /><b><a href="/wiki/Walter_Kuntze" title="Walter Kuntze">Walter Kuntze</a></b><br /><small>(1883–1960)</small></td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">29 October 1941</td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">2 July 1942</td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><span data-sort-value="7002246000000000000♠"></span>246 days</td></tr> <tr><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;">3</td><td style="; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><div style="width:px;height:px;overflow:hidden;position:relative"> <div style="position:relative;top:-px;left:-px"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30,_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alexander Löhr"><img alt="Alexander Löhr" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/100px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/150px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/200px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1969-041-30%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="593" data-file-height="792" /></a></span></div></div></td><td style="text-align:center; background:transparent;color:inherit;"><span style="display:none">Löhr, Alexander</span><i>Generaloberst </i><br /><b><a href="/wiki/Alexander_L%C3%B6hr" title="Alexander Löhr">Alexander Löhr</a></b><br /><small>(1885–1947)</small></td><td style="text-align:center; 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(Wehrmacht)">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="18th Army (Wehrmacht)">18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="19th Army (Wehrmacht)">19</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">20 – 25</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/20th_Mountain_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="20th Mountain Army (Wehrmacht)">20 (Mountain)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="21st Army (Wehrmacht)">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="24th Army (Wehrmacht)">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="25th Army (Wehrmacht)">25</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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