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Army Group South (from 1944 North Ukraine / A)

Existed: 22 Jun 1941 – 25 Jan 1945

Split into Army Groups A and B in July 1942; re-formed February 1943; renamed North Ukraine (April 1944) and A (September 1944).

Commanders

  • Gerd von Rundstedt 22 Jun 1941 – 1 Dec 1941
  • Walter von Reichenau 1 Dec 1941 – 17 Jan 1942
  • Fedor von Bock 18 Jan 1942 – 9 Jul 1942
  • Erich von Manstein 12 Feb 1943 – 30 Mar 1944
  • Walter Model 31 Mar 1944 – 28 Jun 1944
  • Josef Harpe 28 Jun 1944 – 17 Jan 1945
  • Ferdinand Schörner 17 Jan 1945 – 25 Jan 1945

Positions (approximate)

  1. 22 June 1941Southern Poland and Romania; objective Kyiv
  2. 9 July 1941Towards Kyiv and Uman
  3. 30 September 1941After the Kyiv encirclement; Kharkiv and the Dnieper
  4. 5 December 1941Donbass; Rostov lost on 28 Nov
  5. 25 March 1943After the Third Battle of Kharkov
  6. 1 January 1944Dnieper bend; Kyiv lost
  7. 15 May 1944Galicia (as Army Group North Ukraine)
  8. 31 August 1944Vistula – Carpathians
  9. 12 January 1945Vistula bridgeheads (as Army Group A)

Positions are approximate sector centres on front-snapshot dates — not daily positions or headquarters. Between dates the map shows the last known position.

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Sources

  1. [1]
    Army Group South

    Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia

  2. [2]
    Operation Barbarossa

    Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia

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