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6th Army; 6. Armee: Active: 10 October 1939 – 2 February 1943 5 March 1943 – 9 May 1945: Country Nazi Germany: Branch German Army: Type: Field army: Size: Battle of Stalingrad 1942/43: 360,000 [1] –124,000 (18 December 1942–February 1943 March 11,000 soldiers ) [2] 9 October 1943 (Battle of the Dnieper): 217,857 [3] 1 February 1944 ...
The German Army (German: Heer, German: ⓘ; lit. ' army ') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [4]
The 1st Army was activated on 26 August 1939, in Wehrkreis XII with General Erwin von Witzleben in command. Its primary mission was to take defensive positions and guard the western defences of Germany against Allied forces along the Maginot Line during the attack on Poland, [1] making it the principal German combatant during the short-lived French Saar Offensive.
While the size of the standing army was to remain at about the 100,000-man mark decreed by the treaty, a new group of conscripts equal to this size would receive training each year. The conscription law introduced the name " Wehrmacht "; the Reichswehr was officially renamed the Wehrmacht on 21 May 1935. [ 39 ]
The 4th Army took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941 as part of Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center and took part in the Battle of Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk.In the aftermath of the German failure in the Battle of Moscow, Fedor von Bock was relieved of his command of Army Group Center on 18 December.
In February 1941, an agreement between Field Marshal List and the Bulgarian General Staff allowed the passage of German troops. On the night of February 28, German Army units crossed the Danube from Romania and took up strategic positions in Bulgaria. On 6 April, units of the 12th army advanced into Yugoslavia and Greece. The Yugoslavs crumbled ...
The 7th Army was activated in Stuttgart on August 25, 1939 with General Friedrich Dollmann in command. At the outbreak of the war, the 7th Army defended the French border and manned the Westwall in the Upper Rhine region. At the start of the Campaign in the West in 1940, the 7th Army was part of General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's Army Group
On 1 January 1945, the 9th Army (then under Army Group A) had a total strength of 110,930 soldiers, spread across four infantry divisions (17th, 73rd, 214th, 251st), three Volksgrenadier divisions (6th, 45th, 337th), two panzer divisions (19th, 25th), the German garrison in Warsaw and an autonomous blockade brigade.