• Group B (German: Heeresgruppe B) was the name of four distinct German army group commands that saw action during World War II. The first Army Group B was...
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    divisions were subordinated to Heeresgruppe B (Army Group B), the 2nd SS, 9th and 11th Panzer divisions went to Heeresgruppe G (Army Group G, Colonel-General...
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    on 19 July 1940 as Generalleutnant and Chief of the general staff of Heeresgruppe B Stahel 2015, p. 28. Hébert 2010, pp. 209, 218. Scherzer 2007, p. 649...
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    They were renamed on September 2. They were later renamed Heeresgruppe B & Heeresgruppe A respectively. German High Command Reserve: Their permission...
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  • linked for ease of reference. Tessin articles on Heeresgruppe D, Heeresgruppe B, Heeresgruppe G, Heeresgruppe H Zaloga, p. 19 12th Army Group, p. 6 Williams...
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    decided on 30 April: "Heeresgruppe B, postpone!" General Von Lüttwiz, together with the remaining forces of the Heeresgruppe B, was declared missing in...
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  • decided on 30 April: "Heeresgruppe B, postpone!" General Von Lüttwiz together with the remaining forces of the Heeresgruppe B was either taken prisoner...
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    High Command under Generalfeldmarschall Walther Model, in command of Heeresgruppe B, regarded the allied bridgehead north of the Waal River as a severe...
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    on 17 August 1944 as Generalfeldmarschall and commander-in-chief of Heeresgruppe Mitte Forczyk 2011, pp. 6–7. D'Este 1989, p. 320. Stockert 1996, p. 356...
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  • Courland (Heeresgruppe Kurland) Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) Army Group North Ukraine (Heeresgruppe Nordukraine)...
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    assisted as a component of the XIII Army Corps, of the 7th German Army, Heeresgruppe B. The final engagement of the unit was at the city of Fulda in April...
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    Lüttwitz) II Parachute Corps (Eugen Meindl) LXXXVI Corps (Erich Straube) Heeresgruppe B Generalfeldmarschal Walter Model Fifteenth Army General der Infanterie...
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  • to Tunisia as part of the 5th Panzer Army. Bürker became the Ia of Heeresgruppe B in February 1943. This command had just been transferred from the Eastern...
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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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  • Army Group F (redirect from Heeresgruppe F)
    Army Group F (German: Heeresgruppe F) was a strategic command formation of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The commander of Army Group F served...
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    bombardment. That liberation seemed to come soon when in late August Heeresgruppe B collapsed in Normandy and made a rushed, chaotic retreat to Germany...
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    decided on 30 April: "Heeresgruppe B, postpone!" General Von Lüttwiz together with the remaining forces of the Heeresgruppe B was either taken prisoner...
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    Joachim Domaschk approved the nomination but decided "postponed!" noting Heeresgruppe B, so according to AHA Ziff. 275 (Allgemeines Heeresamt — General Army...
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    an offensive were lacking." Model, commander of German Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B), and von Rundstedt, overall commander of the German Army Command...
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    was not made via OB West". Major Domaschk then decided on 28 April: "Heeresgruppe B, postpone!" In this instance the nomination was not processed due to...
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  • Army Group A (redirect from Heeresgruppe A)
    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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    three motorised divisions) were transferred from Heeresgruppe B opposite Holland and Belgium to Heeresgruppe A facing the Ardennes. French military intelligence...
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    Leaves yes" but deferred, Heeresgruppe B—the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade had already surrendered together with the Heeresgruppe B in the Ruhr Pocket. The nomination...
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    Caen. On 20 June, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the commander of Heeresgruppe B (Army Group B), was ordered by Hitler to launch a counter-offensive against...
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    General Enrico Pezzi. The ARMIR was subordinated to German Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) commanded by General Maximilian von Weichs. In February 1943, after...
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    Leaves yes" but deferred. Heeresgruppe B—the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade had already surrendered together with the Heeresgruppe B in the Ruhr Pocket. The nomination...
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    Corps. Facing these two corps was the German 15th Army of HeeresgruppeB’ ("Army Group B") commanded by General Gustav-Adolf von Zangen. This was itself...
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    authorises a warning message to all commands (not an alert), saying Heeresgruppe B should go to Alarmstufe II and other commands are to increase their...
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    motorised) were transferred from Heeresgruppe B (Army Group B) opposite The Netherlands and Belgium to Heeresgruppe A (Army Group A) facing the Ardennes...
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    April 1945 under the leadership of Hauptmann Simon in the Ruhr Pocket (Heeresgruppe B). The receipt of a nomination by his unit with the Heerespersonalamt...
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