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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf military organization
unified armed forces
capitalOfCountryServed Berlin
conflict Battle of Berlin
Battle of France
Battle of Kursk
Battle of Stalingrad
Invasion of Poland
Italian campaign
surface form: Italian Campaign

North African campaign
surface form: North African Campaign

Operation Barbarossa
World War II
cooperatedWith Einsatzgruppen
Gestapo
SS
country Germany
Nazi Germany
disbandedBy Allied occupation of Germany
surface form: Allied Control Council
dissolved 1945
doctrine Blitzkrieg campaigns
surface form: Blitzkrieg
endTime 1945
equipment Junkers Ju 87
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Panzer tanks
U-boats
followedBy Bundeswehr
hasPart Heer
Wehrmacht self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kriegsmarine

Luftwaffe
ideology German militarism
Nazism
legalBasis Nazi rearmament laws
location Berlin
notableCommander Adolf Hitler
Alfred Jodl
Erich von Manstein
Gerd von Rundstedt
Heinz Guderian
Hermann Göring
Karl Dönitz
Wilhelm Keitel
partOf Nazi Germany
surface form: Nazi regime
precededBy Reichswehr
replaced Reichswehr
responsibleFor crimes against humanity
execution of prisoners of war
massacres of civilians
war crimes
role instrument of German military aggression in Europe
startTime 1935
subordinateTo Adolf Hitler
timePeriod World War II
usedLanguage German

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Plan White involvedBranch Wehrmacht
GermanArmyGroupNorth partOf Wehrmacht
Yakov Dzhugashvili capturedBy Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German armed forces
Soviet Don Front opponent Wehrmacht
German Afrika Korps partOf Wehrmacht
Night of the Long Knives relatedOrganization Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Army
Heer partOf Wehrmacht
Slovak National Uprising opponent Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Wehrmacht
Stalags administeredBy Wehrmacht
Operation Tempest in eastern Poland opposedBy Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Wehrmacht
Siege of Leningrad belligerent Wehrmacht
Operation Citadel conductedBy Wehrmacht
British XXX Corps opponent Wehrmacht
Home Army (Armia Krajowa) enemyOf Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Home Army
Lapland War belligerent Wehrmacht
Soviet-German Front belligerent Wehrmacht
Operation Typhoon operator Wehrmacht
Reichswehr replacedBy Wehrmacht
Ernst Busch militaryBranch Wehrmacht
Hermann Hoth militaryBranch Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Army
Hermann Hoth militaryBranch Wehrmacht
Hermann Hoth memberOf Wehrmacht
Soviet 60th Army engagedAgainst Wehrmacht
MTO axisForcesInvolved Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Commander-in-Chief South (Oberbefehlshaber Süd) usedBy Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Commander-in-Chief South
Schutzstaffel (SS) distinctFrom Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Schutzstaffel
1st Belorussian Front opposedBy Wehrmacht
Obrona Helu participant Wehrmacht
Wilhelm Keitel militaryBranch Wehrmacht
Friedrich Paulus militaryBranch Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Army
Friedrich Paulus allegiance Wehrmacht
Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander-in-Chief West) operatedBy Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Oberbefehlshaber West
Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander-in-Chief West) militaryBranch Wehrmacht
subject surface form: Oberbefehlshaber West
this entity surface form: Heer (German Army)
Omaha Beach opposedBy Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Wehrmacht
Alexander Löhr memberOf Wehrmacht
Allied Expeditionary Force in North Africa opponent Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Wehrmacht
Alfred Gause militaryBranch Wehrmacht
Alfred Gause memberOf Wehrmacht
this entity surface form: German Army (Wehrmacht)
Operation Cobra opposedBy Wehrmacht
Operation Lüttich belligerent Wehrmacht
Stalingrad attacker Wehrmacht