Wehrmacht

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The Wehrmacht was Nazi Germany’s unified armed forces during World War II, encompassing the army, navy, and air force and serving as the primary instrument of German military aggression in Europe.



Referenced by (422)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Alfred Gause
Alfred Jodl
Case Blue ("German Army")
Case White
Chiang Wei-kuo
Commander-in-Chief South
Eduard Dietl ("German Army")
Erhard Raus ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Erich Dietl
Erich von Manstein
Ernst Busch
Erwin König
Erwin Rommel ("German Army")
Ewald von Kleist
Fedor von Bock
Franz Josef Strauß
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin
Friedrich Freiherr von Broich
Friedrich Paulus ("German Army")
Friedrich Wiese
Fritz Reiser
Georg Ratzinger
Georg Stumme
Georg Stumme ("German Army")
Georg von Küchler ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Georg-Hans Reinhardt ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Gerd von Rundstedt ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Gerhard von Schwerin
Gotthard Heinrici ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Günther von Kluge ("German Army")
Hans Jordan
Hans-Valentin Hube ("German Army")
Heinrich von Vietinghoff ("German Army")
Heinrich von Vietinghoff
Heinz Guderian ("German Army")
Helmuth Weidling
Hermann Hoth ("German Army")
Hermann Hoth
Johannes Blaskowitz
Josef Harpe
Karl von Rundstedt ("German Army")
Karl-Adolf Hollidt ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Luz Long
Major Erwin König
Maximilian de Angelis
Maximilian von Weichs
OB West
Ob. Süd
Oberbefehlshaber West ("Heer (German Army)")
Operation Birke
Operation Clausewitz
Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich
Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt ("German Army")
Walter Dornberger
Walther Nehring ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Walther von Brauchitsch
Walther von Reichenau
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma
Wilhelm von Leeb
militaryBranch
100th Rifle Division
1939 Defensive War
1st Baltic Front
21st Army (Red Army)
26th Army (Red Army)
3rd Belorussian Front
57th Army (Red Army)
6th Army (Red Army)
Advance to the Elbe
Allied Expeditionary Force in North Africa ("German Wehrmacht")
Battle for Rome
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Hel
Battle of Perekop (1941) ("German Army")
Battle of the Border
Bitwa nad Bzurą
British XXX Corps
Bryansk Front
Capture of Cologne
Capture of Frankfurt
Capture of Munich ("German Wehrmacht units")
Central Front
Crossing of the Rhine
Dieppe Raid
Don Front
Eastern Front (World War II)
Home Army
Italian campaign
Liberation of Belgium
Liberation of France
Liberation of the Netherlands
Liberation of western Czechoslovakia
Lorraine campaign
Lwów Uprising (1944)
North Caucasus offensive operations
Norwegian 6th Division
Operation Rumyantsev
Pomorze Army
Poznań Army
Red Army Kalinin Front
Red Army Reserve Front
Red Army Western Front
Ruhr Pocket ("German Army")
Slovak National Uprising ("German Wehrmacht")
Slovak National Uprising ("German Wehrmacht")
Southern Front
Southwestern Front
Soviet Don Front
Soviet Red Army advance from the east
Soviet Southwestern Front
Soviet Stalingrad Front
Soviet Western Front
Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector)
U.S. Seventh Army
Voronezh Front
Vyazma pocket
Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw–Praga offensive
Western Allied invasion of Germany
Western Front (World War II)
opponent
10th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
16th Army (Wehrmacht) ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
18th Army (Wehrmacht) ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
21st Panzer Division
2nd Light Division ("German Wehrmacht")
2nd Panzer Army
3rd Panzer Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
40th Army Corps ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
4th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
8th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Army Group A ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Army Group B
Army Group Don
Army Group Don ("German Army (Heer)")
Army Group North ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Army Group South
Army Group Vistula ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Commander-in-Chief Luftflotte 2
Fallschirmjäger division
Gerd von Rundstedt ("Wehrmacht high command")
German 17th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
German 1st Army
German 1st Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
German 1st Panzer Army
German 20th Mountain Army
German 20th Mountain Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
German 4th Panzer Army
German 6th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
German Afrika Korps
German Army Group G ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
German Tenth Army
GermanArmyGroupNorth
Ghost Division
Heer
Kriegsmarine
Kriegsmarine High Command
Luftflotte 4
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe High Command
OKH
Oberbefehlshaber Südost
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Panzer Army Africa ("German Army")
VIII Army Corps ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
XLVIII Panzer Corps
partOf
Altmark Incident ("Kriegsmarine")
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive
Battle of Anzio
Battle of Monte Cassino ("German Wehrmacht")
Battle of Nijmegen (September 1944)
Battle of Salerno
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Battle of Uman
Battle of Vinjesvingen ("German forces")
Battle of the Dnieper
Battle of the Volturno Line
Bryansk pocket
Capture of Nuremberg
Crimean offensive (1944)
Donbass defensive operations (1941)
East Pomeranian Offensive
Kerch–Eltigen Operation (1943)
Kharkov defensive operations (1941)
Lapland War
Liberation of Luxembourg ("German Wehrmacht")
Liberation of Paris ("German Army")
Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation
Operation Dragoon
Operation Lüttich
Operation Ostra Brama
Rzhev–Vyazma strategic operations
Second Battle of Kharkov
Siege of Leningrad
Soviet Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation
Soviet winter counteroffensive of 1941–1942
Soviet-German Front
Third Battle of Kharkov
Upper Silesian Offensive
Voronezh–Voroshilovgrad defensive operations
belligerent
88 mm Flak gun
8th Army ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Aggregat 4
Auftragstaktik
Bir el Gubi ("German Army")
Carcano rifle ("German forces (captured weapons)")
Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939)
Commander-in-Chief South
German Cross in Gold
Ghost Division ("German forces")
Gustav Line
Karabiner 98k
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds
MG 42
Mauser
Oberbefehlshaber Südost
Panzer I
Panzer II
Panzer III
Panzer IV
Panzer division
SVT-40
Sd.Kfz. 251
Siegfriedstellung
Sturmgewehr 44
Tiger I
Ziegenberg (near Bad Nauheim) in later war years
usedBy
Alexander Löhr
Alfred Gause ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Colonel General Lindemann
Erich von Manstein
Ferdinand Schörner
Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Günther Rall
Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
Hans-Valentin Hube
Heinrich von Vietinghoff
Hermann Hoth
Johannes Blaskowitz ("German Army (Wehrmacht)")
Josef Harpe
Karl-Adolf Hollidt
Maximilian von Weichs
Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Walter Krupinski
Walther Model
Walther Nehring ("Heer (Wehrmacht)")
Walther von Brauchitsch
Wilhelm List
Wilhelm von Leeb
memberOf
18th Army (Wehrmacht)
40th Army Corps
Albert Kesselring
Bomber Wing 53
DAK
Fighter Wing 52
Friedrich Paulus
German 352nd Infantry Division
Jagdgeschwader 26
Jagdgeschwader 52
KG 53
Kampfgeschwader 53
Lehrgeschwader 1
VIII. Fliegerkorps
allegiance
Battle of Kock (1939)
Battle of Lenino
Battle of Mokra
East Prussian Offensive
Italian Civil War
Lower Silesian Offensive
Lublin–Brest Offensive
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
North Caucasus offensive operations ("German Wehrmacht")
Vistula–Oder Offensive
Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive
combatant
1st Belorussian Front
Battle of Kolberg (1945)
Ján Golian ("German Wehrmacht")
Lake Ladoga ice road
Leningrad Front (Soviet Union)
Mozhaisk defensive line
Omaha Beach ("German Wehrmacht")
Operation Cobra
Operation Tempest in eastern Poland ("German Wehrmacht")
Soviet Central Front
Soviet summer offensive of 1944
opposedBy
Erich von Manstein
Ewald von Kleist
Fedor von Bock
Hugo Sperrle
Maximilian von Weichs
Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt ("German Army")
Werner Mölders
employer
German occupation of Czechoslovakia
German occupation of Italy
Home Army offensive operations in Vilnius region ("German Wehrmacht")
Obrona Helu
Operation Achse
Operation Weser Exercise
Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943
participant
Battle of Kock (1939) ("German Army")
Battle of Midtskogen
Retreat from Normandy ("German Army")
Retreat from Normandy
September Campaign
World War II battles on the Kerch Peninsula
hasParticipant
37th Army (Red Army)
British 1st Airborne Division
Ninth Air Force ("Wehrmacht ground forces")
Polish II Corps
Soviet 60th Army
engagedAgainst
Commander of Army Group A
Commander-in-Chief West
DulagTransitCamps
Gebirgsjäger division
Oberbefehlshaber West
operatedBy
Chief of the OKW
High Command of the Armed Forces
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ("German Armed Forces")
Wehrmacht High Command
appliesToJurisdiction
Henryk Sucharski
Polish POWs
SovietPrisonersOfWar
Yakov Dzhugashvili ("German armed forces")
capturedBy
Commissar Order
Manstein Plan
Operation Braunschweig ("German Wehrmacht")
Operation Nordlicht (1944)
implementedBy
National Republican Army
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture
collaboratedWith
SS-Verfügungstruppe
Schutzstaffel
Waffen-SS
distinctFrom
Battle of Hel ("German Army")
Plan White
Upper Silesian Offensive ("German Army")
involvedBranch
Gordon Gollob
Manfred Rommel ("Wehrmacht auxiliary (Flakhelfer)")
Richard von Weizsäcker
militaryService
Operation Typhoon
Panther tank ("German Wehrmacht")
StuG III
operator
Babi Yar massacre ("Wehrmacht units")
CommissarOrderImplementation
CommissarOrderImplementation ("German Army")
perpetrator
Battle of Dombås
Battle of El Guettar ("German Army")
armedForcesInvolved
Gerhard von Schwerin ("German Army in World War II")
Invalidenfriedhof
associatedWith
9th Army
Panzer Army Africa
branch
Order Police battalions
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
cooperatedWith
Battle of Vinjesvingen
Battle of Vinjesvingen ("German Army")
hasCombatant
Fall Weiss ("Kriegsmarine")
Unternehmen Barbarossa
involvedForce
Case White ("German Army")
Operation Barbarossa
involvedUnit
Nazi Germany
Third Reich
military
Operation Battleaxe ("German Army")
Polish capitulation at Hel ("German Army")
militaryBranchInvolved
II Corps (United States) ("German Wehrmacht")
Italian Co-Belligerent Army
opposedTo
Axis forces on the Eastern Front
Axis forces on the Eastern Front ("Heer (German Army)")
primaryComponent
Armata Italiana in Russia ("German Wehrmacht")
Romanian 4th Army ("German Wehrmacht")
supportedBy
Stalags
administeredBy
ARMIR
alliedWith
Krinkelt ("German Wehrmacht")
associatedWithMilitaryUnit
LebensraumPolicy
associatedWithOrganization
Stalingrad
attacker
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
axisForcesInvolved
Dukla Pass ("Nazi Germany Wehrmacht")
battleInvolvedForce
Backe Plan
beneficiary
10th Army
commandStructure
Operation Citadel
conductedBy
Reich government ("German armed forces")
controlled
German-occupied Europe
controlledBy
Home Army
enemyOf
9th Army (Wehrmacht)
formedBy
Italian Trieste Division ("German Wehrmacht")
foughtAlongside
Infanterie greift an ("German Army (as institutional context)")
hasContributor
Wehrmacht ("Kriegsmarine")
hasPart
Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich ("Nazi Germany armed forces")
highestRankIn
Training Wing 1
historicalAllegiance
Imperial German Army
influenced
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
invadingForce
Operation Slapstick ("German Army")
involvedArm
Amber Room ("German forces")
lootedBy
Invasion of Poland
mainAttacker
Stavka ("German Wehrmacht")
mainOpponent
Soviet–Hungarian War
mainParticipant
German occupation of Poland
mainPerpetrator
8th Army
militaryBranchOf
Anschluss of Austria
militaryForceInvolved
remilitarization of the Rhineland
militaryUnitInvolved
Operation Braunschweig ("German Wehrmacht")
namedBy
Nazi Germany ("Kriegsmarine")
navy
Luftwaffe ("Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper units)")
notableUnit
German occupation of Dunkirk
occupyingForce
Northwest Europe
opponentForce
Nazi war crimes
perpetratedBy
HungerPlan
perpetratorOrganization
German invasion of Yugoslavia
primaryAttacker
Polish Armed Forces in the East
primaryEnemy
40th Army (Red Army)
primaryOpponents
Karabiner 98k ("German armed forces")
producedFor
Night of the Long Knives ("German Army")
relatedOrganization
Reichswehr
replacedBy
Slovak resistance movement ("German Wehrmacht")
repressedBy
Colonel General Lindemann ("German Army in World War II")
serviceIn
Karabiner 98k ("German Army")
standardServiceRifleOf
Krupp
supplied
Croatian Air Force (WWII) ("German Wehrmacht")
supported
German Instrument of Surrender ("German High Command")
surrenderingParty
Katyusha rocket launcher ("Nazi Germany armed forces")
usedAgainst
Generalfeldmarschall
usedIn

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