Army Group South

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German army group Wehrmacht formation military unit

Army Group South was a major German Wehrmacht formation on the Eastern Front in World War II, responsible for large-scale operations primarily in Ukraine and southern Russia.

Aliases (1)

Army Group South Ukraine ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German army group → Wehrmacht formation → military unit →
alliedForcesIncluded	Hungarian Army units → Italian Army units → Romanian Army units →
belligerent	Axis powers →
conflict	World War II →
country	Nazi Germany →
dateFormed	1941 →
engagedIn	large-scale encirclement operations →
formedFor	Operation Barbarossa → invasion of the Soviet Union →
front	southern sector of the Eastern Front →
languageOfCommand	German →
notableAction	encirclement of Soviet forces at Kiev in 1941 →
notableCommander	Erich von Manstein → Fedor von Bock → Gerd von Rundstedt → Walter von Reichenau →
operation	Battle of Kharkov → Battle of Kiev (1941) → Battle of Kursk (southern sector) → Battle of Uman → Case Blue → Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive (as defender) → Operation Barbarossa → Third Battle of Kharkov →
opponent	Red Army → Soviet Union →
partOf	German Army (Heer) → Wehrmacht →
primaryAreaOfOperations	Soviet Union → Ukraine → southern Russia →
reorganizedAs	Army Group A → Army Group B → Army Group South Ukraine →
strategicObjective	advance toward the Caucasus oil fields → capture of Ukraine → seizure of industrial regions of the Donbas →
subordinateUnit	11th Army → 17th Army → 1st Panzer Group → 6th Army → Hungarian 2nd Army → Romanian 3rd Army → Romanian 4th Army →
theater	Eastern Front →
typeOfWarfare	combined arms operations →

Referenced by (19)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
2nd Panzer Army → 40th Army Corps → 6th Army → 8th Army → German 17th Army → German 1st Panzer Army → VIII Army Corps →	subordinateTo
Operation Blue → Soviet Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation → Third Battle of Kharkov →	involvedUnit
German 4th Panzer Army →	front
Battle of Kiev (1941) →	GermanArmyGroup
6th Panzer Army →	higherCommand
Southern Front →	notableAdversaryFormation
Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive →	opponent
Southwestern Front →	primaryAdversaryFormation
Army Group South ("Army Group South Ukraine") →	reorganizedAs
Army Group Don →	succeededBy
Heeresgruppe Süd →	translatedName