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  Army Group Vistula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Army Group Vistula (also known as Army Group Weichsel) was formed in 1945 to protect Berlin from the advancing Soviet armies marching from the Vistula (German: Weichsel) river.
General Gotthard Heinrici replaced Heinrich Himmler as commander of Army Group Vistula on March 20.
The Group, under the command of Heinrici fought through the Battle of Berlin, with some elements not surrendering until the end of the war in Europe on May 8 1945.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Army_Group_Vistula   (132 words)

  
 German Third Panzer Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Third Panzer Army was a constituent of Army Group Centre and fought in the Battle of Moscow in late 1941 and early 1942.
In February 1945 the Third was one of the armies that made up the new Army Group Vistula.
On March 10, 1945, General Hasso-Eccard von Manteuffel was made the commander of the Third, which was assigned to defend the banks of Oder River, north of the Seelow Heights, thus preventing the Soviets access to Western Pomerania and Berlin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Third_Panzer_Army   (298 words)

  
 German Invasion of the U   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Army Group South, commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, was to attack from southern Poland and Romania, its flank armies converging on Kiev to trap the Soviet armies in the western Ukraine in a great pocket west of the Dnieper (Dnepr) River.
Army Group Center was to be reinforced at the expense of its two neighbors, and Army Groups North and South were to complete their missions with the forces remaining to them.
Army Group E in Greece and Albania, after airlifting its troops from Crete and the other Greek islands, was forced to undertake a long and precarious march through the mountains of western Yugoslavia, which it did not complete until mid-November.
www.history-world.org /german_invasion_of_the_u.htm   (17263 words)

  
 The Patton Society Research Library The Third Army in WWII
Third Army's VIII Corps made a second assault crossing of the Rhine south of Koblenz on the 26th of March.
Third Army's final campaign across the Danube River, into Czechoslovakia and Austria, was halted with the official end of the war in Europe at 0001 hours (one minute after midnight) on May 9th, 1945.
Military personnel in the Third Army were paid a total of $240,539,569 from the 1st of August, 1944 until the 30th of April, 1945.
www.pattonhq.com /textfiles/thirdhst.html   (8543 words)

  
 Avalanche Press
Even the army group command had conceded that Vienna must fall, and when Hitler sent his “fixer,” the SS commando leader Otto Skorzeny, to instill some fighting spirit into the city’s defenders the Army ejected him without apparent fear of retribution.
The Soviet tank armies continued their relentless advance, while from his bunker Adolf Hitler reveled in the situation maps and called on phantom panzer divisions to strike Konev’s flanks, trap 1st Ukrainian Front and reverse the war’s outcome.
In the dying days of the Third Reich, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz proved his loyalty to Adolf Hitler by emptying the Navy’s recruit depots and training schools and turning thousands of sailors over to the Army for ground combat (with the condition that they serve in separate divisions).
www.avalanchepress.com /BerlinScenarios3.php   (3565 words)

  
 stalingrad
The Rumanian Third Army was, in fact, destroyed and the Fourth badly mauled.
And on the 23rd, the entire German 6th Army, comprising 22 divisions, together with a Croatian regiment, was surrounded.
Gumrak airfield fell on the 22nd, as the 6th Army was cut into two small pockets in the north and south of Stalingrad.
www.third-reich-books.com /stalingrad.htm   (2962 words)

  
 1945
Army Group E is now completely isolated from the main German forces, but continues its struggle against Titos partisan forces in Yugoslavia.
With the battle of Vienna ongoing, the German 6th SS Panzer Army succeeds in defeating fierce Russian attacks into the districts of Wiener Neustadt and to the West of Baden.
The Germans announce that Army Group Weichsel under General Henrici, is being heavily engaged by the Russians at Frankfurt an der Oder.
www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1945eastern.asp   (1940 words)

  
 REAR AREA SECURITY IN RUSSIA
In the fall of 1942, a German army operating southwest of Orel was ordered to assure the delivery of a certain quota of grain and potatoes from the local harvest.
In the spring of 1943 the Second Panzer Army, comprising about 35 divisions, was engaged in defensive operations in the Orel-Bryansk area.
Their main effort was directed against the supply lines that served the Third Panzer Army, the same German unit which was to bear the brunt of the first heavy attack by the Red Army on the following day.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/20240/20-2403.html   (8638 words)

  
 German Invasion of the U.S.S.R
In August, General Zhukov and Gen. (later Marshal) Aleksandr M.
They were clearly intending to move via Millerovo to Rostov and cut off Army Groups Don and A. Army Group A, which Hitler had placed under Col.
At the Teheran Conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt/A> and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had persuaded Stalin to offer the Finns a negotiated peace on terms that would leave the country independent, but after a first appraisal of the Soviet terms the Finnish government, in March 1944, had found them too onerous and rejected them.
www.angelfire.com /hi/wwiifrontline/gerinvasion.html   (17161 words)

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