Back مجموعة الجيوش جنوب أوكرانيا Arabic Група армій «Паўднёвая Украіна» Byelorussian Група армии „Южна Украйна“ Bulgarian Heeresgruppe Südukraine German Ομάδα Στρατιών Νότια Ουκρανία Greek Grupo de Ejércitos Ucrania Sur Spanish Väegrupp Südukraine Estonian گروه ارتش جنوب اوکراین Persian Armeijaryhmä Etelä-Ukraina Finnish Groupe d'armées Ukraine du Sud French
| Army Group South Ukraine | |
|---|---|
| German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud | |
| Active | 5 April – 23 September 1944 |
| Country |  Nazi Germany Romania (until 24 August 1944) |
| Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
| Branch |  Heer ( Wehrmacht) Romanian Land Forces |
| Size | 905,000 (500,000 Germans, 405,000 Romanians)[1]
120 tanks + 280 assault guns[2][3] 7,600 artillery pieces[4]810 aircraft[5] |
| Engagements | Eastern Front |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Ferdinand Schörner Johannes Frießner |
Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine, Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.[6] This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.[7][a]
Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians.[8] Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.[9]
- ^ David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, Oct 16, 2015, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Revised and Expanded Edition, p. 281
- ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, p. 170
- ^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
- ^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
- ^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
- ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 286.
- ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 360.
- ^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, pp. 171-172
- ^ Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 156
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