Army Group Don

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German army group Wehrmacht military formation

Army Group Don was a short-lived German Wehrmacht army group formed in late 1942 on the Eastern Front to coordinate forces, including the encircled 6th Army, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Aliases (1)

German Army Group Don ×4

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German army group → Wehrmacht military formation →
activePeriod	early 1943 → late 1942 →
areaOfOperations	Caucasus approaches → Don River region → Stalingrad sector →
commander	Erich von Manstein →
commanderRank	Field Marshal →
conflict	Second World War →
country	Nazi Germany →
dissolvedOn	1943-02-15 →
failedToAchieve	Breakout or relief of 6th Army →
formedByOrderOf	Adolf Hitler →
formedOn	1942-11-21 →
front	Southern sector of the Eastern Front →
headquartersLocation	Novocherkassk →
historicalOutcome	Could not prevent German defeat at Stalingrad →
languageOfCommand	German →
militaryBranch	Heer →
notableCommander	Erich von Manstein →
objective	Stabilization of the Don-Volga front →
operation	Operation Winter Storm →
opponent	Red Army → Soviet Southwestern Front → Soviet Stalingrad Front →
partOf	German Army (Heer) → Wehrmacht →
primaryMission	Relief of encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad →
reasonForFormation	Crisis after Soviet Operation Uranus →
relatedEvent	Battle of Stalingrad →
relatedFormation	6th Army →
status	short-lived formation →
subordinateUnit	4th Panzer Army → Army Detachment Hollidt → Hungarian units on the Don → Italian 8th Army elements → Romanian 3rd Army remnants → Romanian 4th Army remnants →
succeededBy	Army Group South →
theatre	Eastern Front →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
40th Army Corps → 6th Army → ARMIR ("German Army Group Don") → Armata Italiana in Russia ("German Army Group Don") → German 6th Army → Romanian 4th Army ("German Army Group Don") →	subordinateTo
Operation Little Saturn ("German Army Group Don") →	targetedUnit