• Army Group Rear Area Command (German: Befehlshaber des rückwärtigen Heeresgebietes, abbreviated as Berück) was an area of military jurisdiction behind...
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    Army Group Centre Rear Area (German: Rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet Mitte) was one of the three Army Group Rear Area Commands, established during the 1941 German...
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  • Army Group North Rear Area (Rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet Nord) was one of the three Army Group Rear Area Commands, established during the 1941 German invasion...
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  • Army Group South Rear Area (Rückwärtiges Heeresgebiet Süd) was one of the three Army Group Rear Area Commands, established during the 1941 German invasion...
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    operated in the rear of the German forces, in the Army Group Rear Area Command. It engaged bypassed Red Army units and carried out murders of Jews, Communists...
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    Army Group North (German: Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Its rear area operations...
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  • his command and flew to Austria where on 18 May 1945 he was arrested by the Americans. Army Group South Army Group North Army Group Centre Rear Area Police...
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    Army Group South (German: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of one of three German Army Groups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September...
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  • Byelorussian SSR, had been occupied by the Wehrmacht. Army Group Centre Rear Area, commanded by General Max von Schenckendorff, established its headquarters...
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    United Nations CommandRear (also known as UN CommandRear or UNC–Rear) is a military command headquartered in Japan, and a subordinate element of United...
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    the Schutzstaffel and deployed in areas of German-occupied Europe, specifically the Army Group Rear Area Commands and territories under civilian administration...
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  • Operational zones («Operationszone Ost») directly behind the front, and Army Rear Areas («Rückwärtige Heeresgebieten») further away. Military Administration...
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    Security Division (207. Sicherungs-Division) was subordinated to the Army Group North Rear Area until December 1944, when it was disbanded. Its headquarters staff...
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  • World War II Army Group Rear Area Command (Wehrmacht) Bandenbekämpfung Eastern Front Soviet partisans Press, Merriam (1999). Rear Area Security in Russia...
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    collection points. Red Army soldiers overtaken by the German advance without being captured were ordered by the Supreme Command of Ground Forces (OKH)...
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  • Rear Area Operations Center (RAOC) was a U.S. Army MTOE unit that served as a command and control facility that provided an rear area and/or sub-area...
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  • began its operational service in September in the Army Group North Rear Area, under which command it would spend its entire existence. It gradually began...
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    Max von Schenckendorff (category German Army generals of World War II)
    Nazi Germany during World War II. He was the commander of Army Group Rear Area behind Army Group Centre from March 1941 until his death. He organzed the...
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  • Pflugbeil, the unit was deployed in German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union, in the Army Group Centre Rear Area, for security and Bandenbekämpfung ("anti-bandit")...
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  • Japanese forces. GHQ India remained responsible for the rear areas and the training of the Army in India, although there was often overlap between the...
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  • Eberhard Herf (category German Army personnel of World War I)
    October 1941, Herf commanded Police Regiment North that perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust in the Army Group North Rear Area. He was subsequently...
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  • formation was to conduct so-called “pacification operations” in the Army Group Rear Areas and civilian-administered territories (Reichskommissariats). Prior...
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    overall command of Reinhard Heydrich. Nebe volunteered to command Einsatzgruppe B, an SS death squad that operated in the Army Group Center Rear Area as the...
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    relegated to rear-area security duty. The Slovak Mobile Command was attached to the German 17th Army (as was the Hungarian Carpathian Group also) and shortly...
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  • Army Group A (German: Heeresgruppe A) was the name of three distinct army groups of the Heer, the ground forces of the Wehrmacht, during World War II....
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    for rear-area warfare in areas under civilian administration. In areas under military jurisdiction (the Army Group Rear Areas), the Army High Command had...
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  • counter-insurgency duties in the rear of the main German field armies, under the direction of the respective army rear area command, or Korück. They were organised...
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  • Army units in the rear of Army Group South. On 9 August, the brigade was north of Zhitomir and was asked to cover the northern flank of the 6th Army in...
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  • was a rear-security division in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. The unit was deployed in German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union, in the Army Group South...
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    1941. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia General Government Army Group Rear Area Command (Wehrmacht) [Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization...
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