Foreign Armies East

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Foreign Armies East was a German military intelligence section of the Wehrmacht responsible for gathering and analyzing information on the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Wehrmacht intelligence section
military intelligence organization
activeDuring World War II
surface form: Second World War
alignment Axis powers
analyzed Eastern European armed forces
Soviet military capabilities
Soviet order of battle
Soviet strategic intentions
conflict World War II
country Nazi Germany
countryOfService Germany
dissolvedAfter German defeat in World War II
fieldOfWork military intelligence
order of battle analysis
strategic analysis
focusRegion Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
historicalContext Nazi German military intelligence system
ideologicalContext Nazi Germany
surface form: National Socialist Germany
languageOfWork German
operatedBy OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)
surface form: Oberkommando des Heeres
opponent Red Army
Soviet Union
parentOrganization Wehrmacht
partOf OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)
surface form: German Army High Command

OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres)
surface form: Oberkommando des Heeres
primaryTask analyzing intelligence on Eastern European countries
analyzing military intelligence on the Soviet Union
gathering intelligence on Eastern European countries
gathering military intelligence on the Soviet Union
produced intelligence estimates on the Red Army
situation reports on Eastern Front opponents
reportedTo German General Staff
surface form: German Army General Staff
roleIn intelligence preparation for Operation Barbarossa
planning of German operations in the East
scope strategic and operational intelligence
serviceBranch German Army
theater Eastern Front of World War II
timePeriod 1939–1945
typeOfOrganization intelligence analysis section
usedSources aerial reconnaissance reports
open-source information
prisoner interrogations
signals intelligence

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High Command of the Armed Forces hasPart Foreign Armies East