German 17th Army

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Wehrmacht field army military unit

The German 17th Army was a Wehrmacht field army that fought primarily on the Eastern Front during World War II, notably in major operations in southern Russia and Ukraine.

Aliases (4)

17th Army ×3
17th Army (Wehrmacht) ×1
Army Detachment Kempf (temporarily) ×1
German 17th Army and Romanian units ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Wehrmacht field army → military unit →
activeDuring	World War II →
allegiance	Adolf Hitler →
associatedWith	Nazi war crimes on the Eastern Front →
branch	Heer →
conflict	Second World War →
country	Nazi Germany →
engagedIn	anti-partisan operations → occupation of Soviet territories →
fate	largely destroyed in the Crimea in 1944 →
formedIn	1939 →
front	Eastern Front of World War II →
garrisonOrHeadquarters	Crimea (late war period) →
historicalEra	20th century →
ideologicalContext	National Socialist Germany →
languageOfName	German →
militaryBranchType	field army →
nativeLabel	17. Armee →
notableCommander	Erwin Jaenecke → Hermann Hoth → Karl Allmendinger → Richard Ruoff → Walther von Reichenau →
notableOperation	Battle of the Caucasus → Case Blue → Crimean Campaign → Crimean Offensive (1944) → Operation Barbarossa → Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942) →
opponent	Red Army → Soviet Union →
partOf	German Army (Wehrmacht) →
primaryAreaOfOperations	Crimea → Ukraine → southern Russia → southern sector of the Eastern Front →
remnants	evacuated by sea from Crimea →
role	defensive operations against the Red Army → offensive operations in southern USSR →
status	disbanded at the end of World War II →
subordinateTo	Army Group A → Army Group North Ukraine → Army Group South →
theatre	Eastern Front →
tookPartIn	German invasion of the Soviet Union → German summer offensive of 1942 → defensive operations in Ukraine → retreat to the Crimea →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Army Group North ("Army Detachment Kempf (temporarily)") → Army Group South ("17th Army") →	subordinateUnit
Crimean offensive (1944) ("German 17th Army and Romanian units") →	axisForces
Kerch–Eltigen Operation (1943) →	belligerent
Heeresgruppe Süd ("17th Army") →	includedUnit
Donbass defensive operations (1941) →	involvedMilitaryUnit
Operation Blue →	involvedUnit
Lower Silesian Offensive ("17th Army (Wehrmacht)") →	involvedUnitGerman
Crimean offensive (1944) →	militaryUnitInvolved
Southern Front →	notableAdversaryFormation
Crimean offensive (1944) →	opponent
40th Army Corps ("17th Army") →	subordinateTo