Army Group Centre

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Army Group Centre was a major German Wehrmacht formation on the Eastern Front during World War II, known for its central role in operations against the Soviet Union and its eventual destruction in the war’s final stages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German army group
Wehrmacht formation
commander Ernst Busch
Fedor von Bock
Ferdinand Schörner
Günther von Kluge
Günther von Kluge
surface form: Hans von Kluge

Walter Model
conflict World War II
country Nazi Germany
disbandedOn 1945-05
formedOn 1941-06-22
front Soviet-German Front
surface form: Soviet–German front
headquartersLocation Belarus
surface form: Belarus (various locations)

East Prussia
surface form: East Prussia (various locations)

Poland (various locations)
initialCommander Fedor von Bock
notableEvent encirclement and destruction in Operation Bagration
operationalArea Belarus
Eastern Poland
surface form: eastern Poland

European Russia
surface form: western Russia
opponent Red Army
Soviet Union
partOf German Army
surface form: German Army (Wehrmacht Heer)
reconstitutedAs Army Group A
Army Group North
reorganizedOn 1944-07
role main German striking force toward Moscow in 1941
subordinateUnit 2nd Army (Wehrmacht)
2nd Panzer Army
surface form: 2nd Panzer Group

3rd Panzer Army
3rd Panzer Army
surface form: 3rd Panzer Group

4th Army
surface form: 4th Army (Wehrmacht)

9th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army Group North
surface form: Army Group North Ukraine (temporarily redesignated)
theater Eastern Front
tookPartIn Battle of Białystok–Minsk
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Bryansk pocket
surface form: Battle of Vyazma–Bryansk

East Prussian Offensive
Operation Bagration
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Mars
Operation Typhoon
Prague Offensive
Rzhev–Vyazma strategic operations
surface form: Rzhev battles

Vistula–Oder Offensive
warCrimeInvolvement mass killings of civilians in occupied Soviet territories
support of the Holocaust in the occupied Eastern territories

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Retreat from the Eastern Front involves Army Group Centre
this entity surface form: German Army Group Centre