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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 ...
German: 18. Armee. The 18th Army (German: 18. Armee) was a World War II field army in the German Wehrmacht . Formed in November 1939 in Military Region ( Wehrkreis) VI, the 18th Army was part of the offensive into the Netherlands ( Battle of the Netherlands) and Belgium ( Battle of Belgium) during Fall Gelb and later moved into France in 1940.
The 14th Army was reactivated for the defence of Italy in late 1943 when its headquarters was created using the headquarters personnel of Army Group B which had been abolished when Albert Kesselring was given command of all Axis troops in Italy. 14th Army was initially responsible for the defence of Rome and dealing with any amphibious landings the Allies might make to the rear of the German ...
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 ...
I Army Corps (Wehrmacht) The I Army Corps ( German: I. Armeekorps) was a corps of the German army during World War II. It was active between 1934 and 1945, and participated in the Invasion of Poland, the Battle of France and the campaigns on the Eastern Front before eventually ending the war trapped in the Courland Pocket .
The 12th Army was activated on October 13, 1939, with General Wilhelm List in command. [1] First seeing defensive action along the Siegfried Line, the army was part of Rundstedt's Army Group A responsible for the Ardennes offensive. It had under its command seven infantry divisions and one mountain division in May 1940.
The 9th Army struck from the north, out-flanking the Vyazma defensive line and, along with the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, encircling Soviet forces at Vyazma. This would prove to be the last major encirclement operation launched by the 9th Army. The 9th Army was placed on the northern flank as the German 2nd, 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies and the ...
