Army Group H

The Army Group H 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. As of April 1945, she was known as the Commander in Chief West.

History

The Army Group H was set up on 11 November 1944 in the Netherlands. There the staff of the Army Department of the Army Department Kleffel and parts of Serbia were merged. The Army Group H was in the areas of present-day Netherlands and in present-day North Rhine -Westphalia, inter alia, to the towns of Mönchengladbach and Duisburg, active. On April 7, 1945, Field Marshal Ernst Busch took the command, at the same time Army Group H was renamed Commander in Chief West. Signed with the surrender of German troops in the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark, the General Admiral Hans -Georg von Friedeburg on 4 May 1945, in the Lüneburg Heath, ended the history of the Army Group.

Supreme Commander

Structure

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