Army Group A
Army Group A was a major unit of the Army of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. She was supreme command each changing armies as well as many special forces.
Generally
Army Group A was created in October 1939 by renaming Army Group South previously used in the Polish campaign and took over the leadership of the 12th and 16th used on the Western Front army to Belgium and Luxembourg, and later the north ajar 4th Army. As of May 10, 1940, she was the focus of the first phase of the western campaign ( " Case Yellow " ) is used, in order to advance to the Somme estuary with the mass of armored and mechanized forces of the Army through the Ardennes through, over the Meuse away and so the cut off Allied forces in northern France and Belgium, and to destroy ("Operation sickle Cut "). From the 5th June 1940, the Army Group attacked in the Battle of France ( " Case Red " ) from positions north of the Aisne out to Reims, broke through the positions of the remaining French forces and thrust deep front to the south and southeast, which the French forces were cut in the Maginot Line and collected in the back. After completion of the campaign in France presented the Army Group from October 1940 -C West. In April 1941, the army group commander moved the Army Group A to Poland, where at the beginning of the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June, was renamed Army Group South.
Army Group A was new in August 1942 by the division of standing in Southern Russia and Ukraine, Army Group South into Army Groups A and B. They attacked with the 1st Tank Army and the 17th Army from the area of the lower Don out on the Caucasus and the oil region of Baku on the Caspian Sea to ("Operation Edelweiss" ). This attack came in November 1942 from shortages and the light of a stiffening Soviet resistance on the northern slope of the Caucasus and in Grozny to a halt. Despite the looming disaster of the 6th Army at Stalingrad Army Group was left to December 1942 in their positions. Only at the beginning of 1943, the 1st Panzer Army, Army Group South (former Army Group Don ) was released. The Army Group A remaining 17th Army withdrew in early 1943 back in the Kuban bridgehead. In September 1943, the 17th Army was withdrawn to the Crimea. The Army Group was the ( newly formed ) 6th Army passed in October 1943 by the Army Group South, the first Nogaische steppe between the Dnieper and the Sea of Azov defended, however, in November 1943 withdrew behind the lower reaches of the Dnieper. The 17th Army was thus isolated in the Crimea, where it was destroyed in May 1944. In March 1944, the army group was also placed under the 8th Army in Northern Bessarabia, which had been blown off by the Army Group South. On 1 April 1944, the Army Group A was renamed Army Group South Ukraine.
In September 1944, the Army Group A was reorganized by renaming Army Group North Ukraine (former Army Group South). She defended southern Poland and Slovakia with the 9th Army (of Army Group Centre ) and the 4th Panzer Army behind the Vistula, the ( newly-formed ) 17th Army between the Vistula and the Beskids and the 1st Panzer Army in Slovakia. Army Group A was the beginning of January 1945 shattered by the Soviet offensive from the Baranov bridgehead on the Vistula out. On January 25, 1945, the first last name change, this time in Army Group Centre.