Army Group South Ukraine

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Army Group South Ukraine
Active 05 April - 23 September 1944
Country  Nazi Germany
Allegiance Balkenkreuz.svg Wehrmacht
Branch Heer
Size Army Group
Engagements

World War II

Commanders
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.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.[1] 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.[2]

Order of Battle, June 1944[edit]

Commanders[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: German Defeat in the East. Washington D.C.: Center of Military History, US Army. p. 286. 
  2. ^ Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: German Defeat in the East. Center of Military History, US Army. p. 380.