Army Group B

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German army group Wehrmacht formation

Army Group B was a major German Wehrmacht formation on the Eastern Front in World War II, commanding multiple armies in key operations including the 1942 summer offensive toward the Volga and the Caucasus.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Army Group B canonical	38
German Army Group B	7
German Army Group B (in its area of responsibility at times)	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German army group ⓘ Wehrmacht formation ⓘ
commander	Erwin Rommel ⓘ Fedor von Bock ⓘ Günther von Kluge ⓘ Maximilian von Weichs ⓘ Walter Model ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
country	Nazi Germany ⓘ
disbanded	1945 ⓘ
engagedIn	Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ Battle of the Bulge ⓘ Case Blue ⓘ Ruhr Pocket ⓘ surface form: Defense of the Ruhr Pocket Battle of France ⓘ surface form: German invasion of France Battle of Normandy ⓘ surface form: Normandy campaign Operation Barbarossa ⓘ Operation Market Garden ⓘ
formed	1940 ⓘ
notableCommander	Erwin Rommel ⓘ Fedor von Bock ⓘ Günther von Kluge ⓘ Maximilian von Weichs ⓘ Walter Model ⓘ
notableOperation	1942 German summer offensive toward the Caucasus ⓘ 1942 German summer offensive toward the Volga ⓘ Battle of Kursk ⓘ Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ Battle of the Bulge ⓘ Case Blue ⓘ Ruhr Pocket ⓘ surface form: Defense of the Ruhr Battle of Normandy ⓘ surface form: Normandy campaign Operation Citadel ⓘ Operation Market Garden ⓘ
objective	advance toward the Caucasus in 1942 ⓘ advance toward the Volga in 1942 ⓘ
partOf	German Army ⓘ surface form: German Army (Heer) Wehrmacht ⓘ
role	commanded multiple German armies ⓘ
subordinateUnit	15th Army ⓘ 1st Parachute Army ⓘ 2nd Army ⓘ German 4th Panzer Army ⓘ surface form: 4th Panzer Army 5th Panzer Army ⓘ 6th Army ⓘ 7th Army ⓘ 9th Army ⓘ Italian Army Group C ⓘ
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front ⓘ Italian Front ⓘ Western Front ⓘ

Referenced by (46)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Case Blue → involves → Army Group B ⓘ

German 6th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Italian 8th Army → alliedWith → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

Italian 8th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

Hungarian 2nd Army → subordination → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

Romanian 4th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

12th Army Group → opposedBy → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

Operation Blue → involvedUnit → Army Group B ⓘ

Oberbefehlshaber West (Commander-in-Chief West) → commanded → Army Group B ⓘ

subject surface form: Oberbefehlshaber West

this entity surface form: German Army Group B (in its area of responsibility at times)

Walter Model → commanded → Army Group B ⓘ

Operation Cobra → opposedBy → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

Crossing of the Rhine → opponent → Army Group B ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Army Group B

40th Army Corps → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Ruhr Pocket → defendingForce → Army Group B ⓘ

Fedor von Bock → commanded → Army Group B ⓘ

Ewald von Kleist → notableCommand → Army Group B ⓘ

German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue → involves → Army Group B ⓘ

subject surface form: Case Blue

Army Group South → reorganizedAs → Army Group B ⓘ

16th Army (Wehrmacht) → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Southwestern Front → primaryAdversaryFormation → Army Group B ⓘ

Maximilian von Weichs → commanded → Army Group B ⓘ

Commander-in-Chief West → oversaw → Army Group B ⓘ

6th Panzer Army → higherCommand → Army Group B ⓘ

OB West → hasPart → Army Group B ⓘ

VIII Army Corps → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

6th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

6th Army → higherCommandDuringStalingrad → Army Group B ⓘ

116th Panzer Division → partOf → Army Group B ⓘ

Unternehmen Blau → executedBy → Army Group B ⓘ

84th Army Corps → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

7th Army → higherCommand → Army Group B ⓘ

1st Parachute Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Battle of the Caucasus → involvedUnit → Army Group B ⓘ

Ruhrkessel → involvesMilitaryUnit → Army Group B ⓘ

15th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

5th Panzer Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Army Detachment Hollidt → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

3rd Panzergrenadier Division → partOf → Army Group B ⓘ

Allied breakout from Normandy → GermanArmyGroupInvolved → Army Group B ⓘ

German summer offensive of 1942 → involvedUnit → Army Group B ⓘ

9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Stalingrad strategic defensive operation (main sector) → opposedBy → Army Group B ⓘ

Panzergruppe West → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

German 7th Army → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

Panzergruppe Eberbach → subordinateTo → Army Group B ⓘ

German Fifteenth Army → commandStructure → Army Group B ⓘ