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Army Group South Ukraine

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Country
  
Nazi Germany

Branch
  
Army

Active
  
05 April - 23 September 1944

Size
  
Army Group 508,946 (Spring 1944)

Engagements
  
World War II Eastern Front

Notable commanders
  
Ferdinand Schoerner Johannes Friessner

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine) was a German army group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

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Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A. This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) on 23 September 1944.

Order of Battle, June 1944

  • Sixth Army - General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico
  • Eighth Army - General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
  • Romanian Third Army
  • Romanian Fourth Army

    • Commanders

  • General Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Ferdinand Schörner - 31 March 1944 to 25 July 1944
  • Colonel General (Generaloberst) Johannes Frießner - 25 July 1944 to 23 September 1944

    • References

    Army Group South Ukraine Wikipedia
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