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The Wehrmacht or Nazi German Army Forces or The German Army (1935-1945) was the name of the unified Military armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. The Wehrmacht consisted of the Heer ( army ), the Kriegsmarine ( navy) and the Luftwaffe ( air force ). Overall command of all these forces was Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW).
The relationship between the Wehrmacht (from 1935 to 1945 the regular combined armed forces of Nazi Germany) and the Nazi Party which ruled Germany has been the subject of an extensive historiographical debate. After the Nazis came to power, they sought to control all aspects of civil society and the state, including the military.
Nazi Germany. The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ( German: [ˈoːbɐkɔˌmando deːɐ̯ ˈveːɐ̯ˌmaxt] ⓘ; abbreviated OKWGerman: [oːkaːˈveː] ⓘ; Armed Forces High Command) [1] was the supreme military command and control office of Nazi Germany during World War II. Created in 1938, the OKW replaced the Reich Ministry of War and had ...
In Brest-Litovsk, a joint German and Soviet victory parade was held. On November 5, 1939, only about five weeks following the end of the Polish Campaign, the Third Army was disbanded. The Third Army became one of the first German armies of World War II to be disbanded. The staff was moved to Bad Bertrich as 16th Army for use in the west.
Formation. The 11th Army was established on 5 October 1940 as "Kommandostab Leipzig", but changed its designation to Kommandostab München on 23 April 1941. It was restructured into Heeresgruppe Don on 21 November 1942. After being reformed on 26 January 1945 and taking part in various counter-offensives against the Soviet and US advance, the ...
Geschichte der Wehrmacht 1935–1945. Herbig, München 2000, ISBN 3-7766-1933-3. Manfred Messerschmidt: Die Wehrmacht im NS-Staat. Zeit der Indoktrination. Hamburg 1969. Gerhard Muhm: German Tactics in the Italian Campaign. Gerhard Muhm: La tattica tedesca nella campagna d’Italia, in Linea gotica avamposto dei Balcani, a cura di Amedeo ...
History. Formed in August 1943 in occupied southern France from Armeegruppe Felber (the LXXXIII. Armeekorps), the 19th Army defended southern France, the Vosges Mountains, Alsace, Baden and southern Württemberg during the Allied invasion of southern France and other large Allied military operations that had as their goal the liberation of southern France and the invasion of southern Germany.
