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hreflang="fa" data-title="گروه ارتش ب" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_d%27arm%C3%A9es_B" title="Groupe d'armées B – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Groupe d'armées B" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_%EC%A7%91%EB%8B%A8%EA%B5%B0" title="B 집단군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="B 집단군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grup_Angkatan_Darat_B" title="Grup Angkatan Darat B – Indonesian" lang="id" 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1942 – 9 February 1943<br />19 July – 26 November 1943<br />26 November 1943 – 17 April 1945</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span data-sort-value="Germany"><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">Germany</a></span><br /><span data-sort-value="Hungary"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hungary_%281915-1918%2C_1919-1946%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%931946)" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)">Hungary</a></span> (Eastern Front only)<br /><span data-sort-value="Romania"><span class="flagicon"><span 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title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Phony_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Phony War">Phony War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">Invasion of the Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">Invasion of Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_Rot" title="Fall Rot">Case Red</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_military_administration_in_occupied_France_during_World_War_II" title="German military administration in occupied France during World War II">German-occupied France</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)">German-occupied Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Uranus" title="Operation Uranus">Operation Uranus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive" title="Voronezh–Kharkov offensive">Voronezh–Kharkov offensive</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Achse" title="Operation Achse">German-occupied Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="Italian campaign (World War II)">Italian Front</a></li> <li>German-occupied France</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Western Front (World War II)">Western Front</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">Operation Overlord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falaise_pocket" title="Falaise pocket">Falaise pocket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden">Operation Market Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruhr_pocket" title="Ruhr pocket">Ruhr pocket</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Commanders</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fedor_von_Bock" title="Fedor von Bock">Fedor von Bock</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_von_Weichs" title="Maximilian von Weichs">Maximilian von Weichs</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rommel" title="Erwin Rommel">Erwin Rommel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_von_Kluge" title="Günther von Kluge">Günther von Kluge</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Walter_Model" title="Walter Model">Walter Model</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p><b>Army Group B</b> (<a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de">Heeresgruppe B</i>) was the name of four distinct German <a href="/wiki/Army_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Group">army group commands</a> that saw action during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. </p><p>The first Army Group B was created on 12 October 1939 (from the former <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_North" title="Army Group North">Army Group North</a>) and fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a> on the northern flank. It was responsible for a part of the <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">German invasion of Belgium</a> and the majority of the <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">German invasion of the Netherlands</a>. In the later stage of that campaign ("<a href="/wiki/Fall_Rot" title="Fall Rot">Case Red</a>"), it again advanced on the German right flank towards the <a href="/wiki/Somme_(river)" title="Somme (river)">Somme river</a>, the city of <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and the <a href="/wiki/France%E2%80%93Spain_border" title="France–Spain border">Franco-Spanish border</a>. After 16 August 1940, it was deployed to <a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a> and to the <a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a> in <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)">German-occupied Poland</a>. When <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a> began on 22 June 1941, Army Group B was renamed on the same day to become "<a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Group Center">Army Group Center</a>". </p><p>The second Army Group B came into existence on 9 July 1942, when <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_South" title="Army Group South">Army Group South</a> was split into two army groups, named <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_A" title="Army Group A">Army Group A</a> and Army Group B. Army Group B was responsible for the northern flank of the German 1942 summer offensive towards the <a href="/wiki/Volga" title="Volga">Volga river</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasian</a> oilfields. Its most famous operational target was the major city of <a href="/wiki/Stalingrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a>. Beginning on 21 November 1942, the army group had its lines repeatedly pierced by <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> counterattacks ("<a href="/wiki/Operation_Uranus" title="Operation Uranus">Operation Uranus</a>"), developing into the encirclement crisis during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a> that ended with the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">German 6th Army</a> trapped in the city. Army Group B was organizationally weakened by the creation of <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Don" title="Army Group Don">Army Group Don</a>, which was inserted into the line between Army Groups A and B to alleviate the crisis at Stalingrad. After additional pressure was applied to the army group by the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive" title="Voronezh–Kharkov offensive">Voronezh–Kharkov offensive</a> (January – March 1943), the army group was dissolved on 9 February 1943 and its subordinate formations divided between Army Group Center and the newly-reestablished Army Group South (formerly Army Group Don). </p><p>The third Army Group B was formed on 19 July 1943 using former Army Group B personnel as well as Task Force Rommel (German: <i lang="de">Arbeitsstab Rommel</i>) and deployed to northern Italy. Here, the staff was used on 26 November 1943 to create <a href="/wiki/OB_S%C3%BCdwest" class="mw-redirect" title="OB Südwest">OB Südwest</a> ("Army Group C"). </p><p>On the same day, 26 November 1943, another Army Group B command was created at the coast of the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> in <a href="/wiki/German_military_administration_in_occupied_France_during_World_War_II" title="German military administration in occupied France during World War II">German-occupied France</a>. After the Allied <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">Normandy landings</a> in June 1944, Army Group B initially commanded the northern wing of the new <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Western Front (World War II)">Western Front</a>. After <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_H" title="Army Group H">Army Group H</a> was created in the German-occupied Netherlands in November 1944, Army Group B instead took the center of the Western Front, located between Army Group H to the north and Army Group G to the south. It is notable on the Western Front as the army group to oversee the German Ardennes Offensive ("<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>"). Eventually, Army Group B surrendered on 17 April 1945 in the <a href="/wiki/Ruhr_pocket" title="Ruhr pocket">Ruhr pocket</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_deployment_(1939–41)"><span id="First_deployment_.281939.E2.80.9341.29"></span>First deployment (1939–41)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: First deployment (1939–41)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Army Group B was initially created on 12 October 1939, when the former <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_North" title="Army Group North">Army Group North</a>, which had participated in the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">Invasion of Poland</a>, was renamed. The initial commander of the army group was <a href="/wiki/Fedor_von_Bock" title="Fedor von Bock">Fedor von Bock</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 22">: 22 </span></sup> who had already held the command over Army Group North during the campaign in Poland.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 166">: 166 </span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png/220px-1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png/330px-1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png/440px-1939-1940-battle_of_france-plan-evolution.png 2x" data-file-width="1232" data-file-height="944" /></a><figcaption>The plan for the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_France" title="Battle of France">Battle of France</a> evolved from 1939 to 1940 to shift the operational focus away from Army Group B to Army Group A.</figcaption></figure> <p>Army Group B was assembled during the period of the <a href="/wiki/Phoney_War" title="Phoney War">Phoney War</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Lower_Rhine" title="Lower Rhine">Lower Rhine</a> area, along the <a href="/wiki/Germany%E2%80%93Netherlands_border" title="Germany–Netherlands border">German-Dutch border</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Belgium%E2%80%93Germany_border" title="Belgium–Germany border">German-Belgian border</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 22">: 22 </span></sup> In the initial OKH draft for the attack against France, Army Group B was assigned the <i>Schwerpunkt</i> role, but the intervention by senior officers (notably <a href="/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein" title="Erich von Manstein">Erich von Manstein</a>) from its southern neighbor, Army Group A, resulted in a shift in the German planning starting in January to February 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 78–81">: 78–81 </span></sup> Army Group A was now accorded the operational focus, and Army Group B became a formation with a support and auxiliary role. With 29⅓ <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a>, it was clearly smaller than its southern neighbor with 44⅓ divisions (whereas <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_C" title="Army Group C">Army Group C</a> in the far south on the French border received only 17 divisions).<sup id="cite_ref-Umbreit_1979_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Umbreit_1979-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 254">: 254 </span></sup> Army Group A also received preferential treatment in terms of access to reserve formations.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 105">: 105 </span></sup> Whereas Army Group A received seven armored divisions and three motorized infantry divisions, Army Group B was significantly weaker at three each.<sup id="cite_ref-Pöhlmann_2016_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pöhlmann_2016-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 312">: 312 </span></sup> </p><p>The army group participated in the <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">German invasion of the Netherlands</a> and the <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1940)" title="German invasion of Belgium (1940)">German invasion of Belgium</a>. In the second part of that campaign ("<a href="/wiki/Fall_Rot" title="Fall Rot">Case Red</a>"), Army Group B again found itself on the right-hand flank of the German forces and advanced towards the <a href="/wiki/Somme_(river)" title="Somme (river)">Somme river</a> and to the French <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> coast.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </p><p>After the successful conclusion of the Western campaign, the army group initially remained on occupation duty in <a href="/wiki/German-occupied_France" class="mw-redirect" title="German-occupied France">German-occupied France</a>, but was redeployed to <a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)">German-occupied Poland</a> starting on 16 August 1940, where it took charge of German forces in <a href="/wiki/East_Prussia" title="East Prussia">East Prussia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a>, in proximity to the demarcation line with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </p><p>On the day <a href="/wiki/German-Soviet_war" class="mw-redirect" title="German-Soviet war">Germany invaded the Soviet Union</a> ("<a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>"), 22 June 1941, Army Group B was renamed "<a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Group Center">Army Group Center</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 22">: 22 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_deployment_(1942–43)"><span id="Second_deployment_.281942.E2.80.9343.29"></span>Second deployment (1942–43)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Second deployment (1942–43)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 9 July 1942, the previous <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_South" title="Army Group South">Army Group South</a> was split in two, resulting in the creation of a new <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_A" title="Army Group A">Army Group A</a> as well as the creation of a new Army Group B. Whereas Army Group A was led by a new army group command that had been covertly prepared behind the lines (as "Staff Anton"),<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 8">: 8 </span></sup> Army Group B remained in charge of the previous Army Group South's command formation.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 216">: 216 </span></sup> </p><p>Army Group B advanced northeastwards (whereas Army Group A moved south into the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus" title="Battle of the Caucasus">Battle of the Caucasus</a>) to approach the <a href="/wiki/Don_(river)" title="Don (river)">Don</a> and <a href="/wiki/Volga" title="Volga">Volga</a> rivers, with particular goals at the Soviet cities of <a href="/wiki/Stalingrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a>. After the forward formations of the army group got themselves entangled in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Battle of Stalingrad</a>, a Soviet counterthrust ("<a href="/wiki/Operation_Uranus" title="Operation Uranus">Operation Uranus</a>") left the <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">German 6th Army</a> encircled inside the city, on the Volga west bank. Several major formations (German 6th Army, <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Army_(Romania)" title="Fourth Army (Romania)">Romanian 4th Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/4th_Panzer_Army" title="4th Panzer Army">German 4th Panzer Army</a>) were transferred away from Army Group B and attached to the newly-formed <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Don" title="Army Group Don">Army Group Don</a> in November 1942. After another Soviet breakthrough on the Don river on 14 January 1943 (<a href="/wiki/Voronezh%E2%80%93Kharkov_offensive" title="Voronezh–Kharkov offensive">Voronezh–Kharkov offensive</a>), Army Group B was pulled out of the line on 9 February 1943. Its remnant subordinate formations were distributed either to the Army Group Center or to the new Army Group South (previously Army Group Don).<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 23">: 23 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Third_deployment_(1943)"><span id="Third_deployment_.281943.29"></span>Third deployment (1943)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Third deployment (1943)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43,_Erwin_Rommel_(3x4).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg/180px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg/270px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg/360px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-012-43%2C_Erwin_Rommel_%283x4%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="864" /></a><figcaption>Rommel was commander of Army Group B from 14 July 1943 until 19 July 1944</figcaption></figure> <p>After Army Group B was pulled out of the Eastern Front, its remaining staff elements were combined on 19 July 1943 with another staff, Task Force Rommel (German: <i lang="de">Arbeitsstab Rommel</i>), named after its leading officer <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rommel" title="Erwin Rommel">Erwin Rommel</a> (whose <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Afrika" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Group Afrika">Army Group Afrika</a> had recently been decisively defeated with the ends of the <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_campaign" title="Tunisian campaign">Tunisian campaign</a>). Rommel on the same 19 July became the commander of Army Group B.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 23">: 23 </span></sup> </p><p>The army group was deployed to northern Italy, where much of its staff was restructured into <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_C" title="Army Group C">Army Group C</a> ("Supreme Commander South West") on 26 November 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 23">: 23 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fourth_deployment_(1943–45)"><span id="Fourth_deployment_.281943.E2.80.9345.29"></span>Fourth deployment (1943–45)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Fourth deployment (1943–45)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the same day that the staff of Army Group B was dissolved in Italy (26 November 1943), an army group high command by the same name was created in German-occupied France.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 23">: 23 </span></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-139-14%2C_G%C3%BCnther_v._Kluge.jpg/180px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-139-14%2C_G%C3%BCnther_v._Kluge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-139-14%2C_G%C3%BCnther_v._Kluge.jpg/240px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1973-139-14%2C_G%C3%BCnther_v._Kluge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="528" data-file-height="798" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_von_Kluge" title="Günther von Kluge">Günther von Kluge</a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:116px;max-width:116px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:181px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg/114px-Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg" decoding="async" width="114" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg/171px-Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg/228px-Walther_Model_on_the_front.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2203" data-file-height="3498" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Model" title="Walter Model">Walter Model</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>After the Western Allies' <a href="/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">Normandy landings</a> (6 June 1944), Army Group B became the northern army group in the German line on the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Western Front (World War II)">Western Front</a>. <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_von_Kluge" title="Günther von Kluge">Günther von Kluge</a> assumed command of the army group on 19 July 1944, but was soon replaced by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Model" title="Walter Model">Walter Model</a> on 17 August.<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 23">: 23 </span></sup> Moving to the <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a>, Model with his HQ located at <a href="/wiki/Oosterbeek" title="Oosterbeek">Oosterbeek</a> close to Arnhem, was surprised on 17 September by the start of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden">Operation Market Garden</a>. The army group also participated in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 106">: 106 </span></sup> </p><p>Army Group B was isolated in the <a href="/wiki/Ruhr_Pocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruhr Pocket">Ruhr Pocket</a> in northern <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, and after being divided up into smaller and smaller sections, the final section surrendered to the Allies on 21 April 1945. Model committed suicide the same day.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </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=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Commanders</b> </p> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> <ul><li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalfeldmarschall" title="Generalfeldmarschall">Generalfeldmarschall</a> <a href="/wiki/Fedor_von_Bock" title="Fedor von Bock">Fedor von Bock</a> (3 October 1939 – 1 April 1941)</li> <li>Generalfeldmarschall <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_von_Weichs" title="Maximilian von Weichs">Maximilian von Weichs</a> (15 July 1942 – 10 July 1943)</li> <li>Generalfeldmarschall <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Rommel" title="Erwin Rommel">Erwin Rommel</a> (10 July 1943 – 17 July 1944)</li> <li>Generalfeldmarschall <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_von_Kluge" title="Günther von Kluge">Günther von Kluge</a> (17 July 1944 – 15 August 1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS-Oberst-Gruppenf%C3%BChrer" title="SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer">SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer</a> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Hausser" title="Paul Hausser">Paul Hausser</a> (15 August 1944 – 17 August 1944)</li> <li>Generalfeldmarschall <a href="/wiki/Walter_Model" title="Walter Model">Walter Model</a> (17 August 1944 – 17 April 1945)</li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li></ul> <p><b>Chief of Staff</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/General_of_the_Infantry_(Germany)" title="General of the Infantry (Germany)">General der Infanterie</a> <a href="/wiki/Hans_von_Salmuth" title="Hans von Salmuth">Hans von Salmuth</a> (3 October 1939 – 1 April 1941)</li> <li>General der Infanterie <a href="/wiki/Georg_von_Sodenstern" title="Georg von Sodenstern">Georg von Sodenstern</a> (15 July 1942 – 19 July 1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalleutnant" title="Generalleutnant">Generalleutnant</a> <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Gause" title="Alfred Gause">Alfred Gause</a> (19 July 1943 – 15 April 1944)</li> <li>Generalleutnant <a href="/wiki/Hans_Speidel" title="Hans Speidel">Hans Speidel</a> ( 15 April 1944 – 1 September 1944)</li> <li>General der Infanterie <a href="/wiki/Hans_Krebs_(Wehrmacht_general)" title="Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general)">Hans Krebs</a> (1 September 1944 – 17 February 1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalmajor" title="Generalmajor">Generalmajor</a> <a href="/wiki/Carl_Wagener" title="Carl Wagener">Carl Wagener</a> (20 February 1945 – 17 April 1945)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subordinate_formations">Subordinate formations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_B&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Subordinate formations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Subordinate formations of Army Group B<sup id="cite_ref-Tessin_1977_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tessin_1977-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 22–24">: 22–24 </span></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><u>Date</u> </th> <th><u>Subordinated commands</u> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">First deployment, 1939–41 </th></tr> <tr> <td>November 1939 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/4th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Army (Wehrmacht)">4th Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">6th Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/18th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="18th Army (Wehrmacht)">18th Army</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 1940 </td> <td>6th Army, 18th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 1940 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="9th Army (Wehrmacht)">9th Army</a>, 6th Army, 4th Army, Panzer Group <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ludwig_Ewald_von_Kleist" title="Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist">Kleist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>July 1940 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/7th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="7th Army (Wehrmacht)">7th Army</a>, 4th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>August 1940 </td> <td>7th Army, 4th Army, 6th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 1940 </td> <td>18th Army, 4th Army, 6th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>January 1941 </td> <td>18th Army, 4th Army, 17th Army, 2nd Panzer Group, Military commander in the <a href="/wiki/General_Government" title="General Government">General Government</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 1941 </td> <td>9th Army, 4th Army </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Second deployment, 1942–43 </th></tr> <tr> <td>August 1942 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="2nd Army (Wehrmacht)">2nd Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Second_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian Second Army">Hungarian 2nd Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_Army_in_Russia" title="Italian Army in Russia">Italian 8th Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/XXIX_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XXIX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">XXIX Army Corps</a>, <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="6th Army (Wehrmacht)">6th Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Panzer_Army_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fourth Panzer Army (Germany)">4th Panzer Army</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 1942 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, 6th Army, 4th Panzer Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>October 1942 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, 4th Panzer Army, <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Third_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Third Army">Romanian 3rd Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Fourth_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Fourth Army">Romanian 4th Army</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1942 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, 4th Panzer Army, 6th Army, Romanian 3rd Army, Romanian 4th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>December 1942 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>January 1943 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Detachment_Fretter-Pico&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Army Detachment Fretter-Pico (page does not exist)">Army Detachment Fretter-Pico</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>February 1943 </td> <td>2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, <a href="/wiki/Army_Detachment_Lanz" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Detachment Lanz">Army Detachment Lanz</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Third deployment, 1943 </th></tr> <tr> <td>September 1943 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/LI_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="LI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">LI Army Corps</a>, <a href="/wiki/II_SS_Panzer_Corps" title="II SS Panzer Corps">II SS Corps</a>, <a href="/wiki/LXXXVII_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="LXXXVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">LXXXVII Army Corps</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2">Fourth deployment, 1943–45 </th></tr> <tr> <td>December 1943 </td> <td><i>OKW reserves in German-occupied Denmark</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>May 1944 </td> <td>7th Army, <a href="/wiki/15th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="15th Army (Wehrmacht)">15th Army</a>, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands </td></tr> <tr> <td>June 1944 </td> <td>7th Army, 15th Army, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands, <a href="/wiki/Panzer_Group_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer Group West">Panzer Group West</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>August 1944 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="1st Army (Wehrmacht)">1st Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/5th_Panzer_Army" title="5th Panzer Army">5th Panzer Army</a>, 7th Army, 15th Army, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands </td></tr> <tr> <td>September 1944 </td> <td>7th Army, <a href="/wiki/1st_Parachute_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="1st Parachute Army (Wehrmacht)">1st Parachute Army</a>, 15th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>November 1944 </td> <td>7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Group_Student&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Army Group Student (page does not exist)">Army Group Student</a> (1st Parachute Army + 15th Army) </td></tr> <tr> <td>December 1944 </td> <td>7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, <a href="/wiki/6th_Panzer_Army" title="6th Panzer Army">6th Panzer Army</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>January 1945 </td> <td>7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, <a href="/wiki/6th_Panzer_Army" title="6th Panzer Army">6th Panzer Army</a>, 15th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>February 1945 </td> <td>7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, 15th Army </td></tr> <tr> <td>April 1945 </td> <td>15th Army, 5th Panzer Army, <a href="/wiki/XLVII_Panzer_Corps" title="XLVII Panzer Corps">Army Detachment von Lüttwitz</a> 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href="/wiki/3rd_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Guards Army (Soviet Union)">3rd Guards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="21st Army (Soviet Union)">21st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/51st_Army_(Russia)" title="51st Army (Russia)">51st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/62nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="62nd Army (Soviet Union)">62nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="64th Army (Soviet Union)">64th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/65th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="65th Army (Soviet Union)">65th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Corps" title="Corps">Corps</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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Panzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XXXX_Panzer_Corps" title="XXXX Panzer Corps">XXXX Panzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XXXXVIII_Panzer_Corps" title="XXXXVIII Panzer Corps">XXXXVIII Panzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IV_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="IV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VIII_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">VIII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XI_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">XI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LI_Army_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="LI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)">LI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Air_Corps_(Germany)" title="8th Air Corps (Germany)">8th Air</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tank_corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="Tank corps (Soviet Union)">Tank</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1st_Tank_Corps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1st Tank Corps (page does not exist)">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Tank_Corps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Tank Corps (page does not exist)">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13th_Tank_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="13th Tank Corps">13th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Tank_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Tank Corps">16th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Tatsinskaya_Guards_Tank_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Tatsinskaya Guards Tank Corps">24th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Tank_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="26th Tank Corps">26th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">others</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/4th_Mechanized_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)">4th Mechanised</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Guards_Cavalry_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Guards Cavalry Corps">3rd Guards Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Cavalry_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Cavalry Corps">4th Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Cavalry_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="8th Cavalry Corps">8th Cavalry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">Divisions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany"><img alt="Nazi Germany" 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" /></a></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Panzer_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer division">Panzer</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">14th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="16th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">16th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="17th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">17th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="22nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">22nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="24th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">24th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Infantry</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/3rd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="3rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">3rd Motorised</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="29th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">29th Motorised</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/60th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">60th Motorised</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_J%C3%A4ger_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Jäger Division">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/44th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="44th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">44th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/71st_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="71st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">71st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="76th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">76th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/79th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="79th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">79th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/94th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="94th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">94th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Light_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="100th Light Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">100th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/113th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="113th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">113th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/295th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="295th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">295th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/297th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="297th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">297th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/305th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="305th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">305th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/371st_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="371st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">371st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/376th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="376th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">376th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/384th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="384th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">384th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/389th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="389th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">389th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/9th_Flak_Division" title="9th Flak Division">9th Flak</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union"><img alt="Soviet Union" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Guards Rifle</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/13th_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="13th Guards Rifle Division">13th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="15th Guards Rifle Division">15th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/33rd_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="33rd Guards Rifle Division">33rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/35th_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="35th Guards Rifle Division">35th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="36th Guards Rifle Division">36th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_Guards_Rifle_Division" title="37th Guards Rifle Division">37th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Guards_Rifle_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="39th Guards Rifle Division">39th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Rifle</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/38th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="38th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">38th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">45th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/62nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="62nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">62nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_Rifle_Division_(1942%E2%80%931945)" title="64th Rifle Division (1942–1945)">64th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/91st_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="91st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">91st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/93rd_Rifle_Division_(June_1942_formation)" title="93rd Rifle Division (June 1942 formation)">93rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/95th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="95th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">95th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=112th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="112th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">112th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/138th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="138th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">138th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=157th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="157th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">157th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/169th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="169th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">169th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/173rd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="173rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">173rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/181st_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="181st Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">181st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/193rd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">193rd</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=196th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="196th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">196th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/204th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="204th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">204th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/214th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="214th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">214th</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=221st_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="221st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">221st</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=248th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="248th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">248th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/284th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="284th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">284th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/302nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="302nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">302nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/308th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="308th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">308th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/422nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="422nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">422nd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">others</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="/w/index.php?title=60th_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="60th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">60th Cavalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/81st_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="81st Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)">81st Cavalry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Notable_participants607" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Notable participants</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany"><img alt="Nazi Germany" 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" /></a></span></span> Nazi Germany</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/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Edler_von_Daniels" title="Alexander Edler von Daniels">Alexander Edler von Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hoth" title="Hermann Hoth">Hermann Hoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Valentin_Hube" title="Hans-Valentin Hube">Hans-Valentin Hube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_von_Manstein" title="Erich von Manstein">Erich von Manstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Paulus" title="Friedrich Paulus">Friedrich Paulus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen">Wolfram von Richthofen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Schmidt_(general)" title="Arthur Schmidt (general)">Arthur Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walther_von_Seydlitz-Kurzbach" title="Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach">Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Strecker" title="Karl Strecker">Karl Strecker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania"><img alt="Kingdom of Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constantin_Constantinescu-Claps" title="Constantin Constantinescu-Claps">Constantin Constantinescu-Claps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petre_Dumitrescu" title="Petre Dumitrescu">Petre Dumitrescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mihail_Lasc%C4%83r" title="Mihail Lascăr">Mihail Lascăr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Other <a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a> members</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/Viktor_Pavi%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Viktor Pavičić">Viktor Pavičić</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia" title="Independent State of Croatia">Croatia</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italo_Gariboldi" title="Italo Gariboldi">Italo Gariboldi</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy" title="Kingdom of Italy">Italy</a>)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guszt%C3%A1v_J%C3%A1ny" title="Gusztáv Jány">Gusztáv Jány</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%9346)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)">Hungary</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a 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