Army Group North Ukraine

Army Group North Ukraine 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.

History

The army group walked out of the renaming of the former Army Group South during the detachment of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein by Field Marshal Walter Model forth on March 30, 1944.

It comprised in April 1944, the 1st and 4th Panzer Army and the Hungarian 1st Army. First, the crisis at the 1st Panzer Army had to be adjusted, which had been included as part of the Dnieper - Carpathian - operation in the boiler of Kamenetz -Podolsk. After the start of Operation Bagration in late June took over Model Army Group Center and was initially replaced vicariously through Generaloberst Josef Harpe. From mid-July to end of August 1944, she was then compared to the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Red Army in the Lviv - Sandomierz operation. In August 1944, they included the 4th Panzer Army, the 17th Army and the Army Group Heinrici and defended in Galicia between the Carpathians and the Pripyat marshes. On September 23, 1944, it was renamed Army Group A.

Supreme Commander

  • Field Marshal Walter Model - MARCH 31 bis August 16, 1944
  • Colonel-General Josef Harpe - 28 June ( representative ) or August 16th ( mdFb ) to September 23, 1944

Chief of Staff

  • Lieutenant General Theodor Busse - APRIL 1 bis July 10, 1944
  • Major General Wolf -Dietrich von Xylander - July 10 bis September 23, 1944

Imputed armies

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