Army Group South

Army group · Germany · June 22, 1941 – April 5, 1944

German army group that took Ukraine in 1941, was split for the 1942 summer offensive, and was re-formed under Manstein to hold southern Russia and Ukraine until 1944.

View on map Fought in Operation Barbarossa

Sub-units 2

Army 6th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army 4th Panzer Army

Movements

September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
September 1 – October 6, 1939 Invasion of Poland
September 8–28, 1939 Siege of Warsaw (1939)
October 2–5, 1939 Battle of Kock (1939)
May 10–28, 1940 German invasion of Belgium (1940)
May 10 – June 25, 1940 Battle of France
May 14–15, 1940 Battle of Gembloux (1940)
June 22, 1941 Operation Barbarossa Southern Poland: Barbarossa begins Map
June 22 – July 3, 1941 Battle of Białystok–Minsk
June 23–30, 1941 Battle of Brody (1941)
July 9, 1941 Baltic operation
July 10 – September 30, 1941 Leningrad strategic defensive
July 10 – September 10, 1941 Battle of Smolensk (1941)
July 15 – August 8, 1941 Battle of Uman
August 7 – September 26, 1941 Battle of Kiev (1941)
September 8, 1941 – January 27, 1944 Siege of Leningrad
September 19, 1941 Kiev pocket closed Map
October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942 Battle of Moscow
October 20–24, 1941 First Battle of Kharkov
November 21, 1941 Rostov taken and lost Map
February 28, 1942 Vyazma airborne operation
May 12–29, 1942 Second Battle of Kharkov
May 28, 1942 Second battle of Kharkov won Map
June 1 – November 24, 1942 Case Blue
June 28 – July 24, 1942 Battle of Voronezh (1942)
July 9, 1942 – February 12, 1943 Split into Army Groups A and B Map
July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943 Battle of Stalingrad
July 22, 1942 Operation Fischreiher
July 23 – August 11, 1942 Battle of Kalach
February 13, 1943 Re-formed under Manstein; Third Kharkov Map
February 19 – March 15, 1943 Third Battle of Kharkov
July 5, 1943 Battle of Kursk Belgorod: south face of Kursk Map
July 17 – August 2, 1943 Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)
August 1943 – August 23, 1943 Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation
August 3–23, 1943 Belgorod–Bogodukhov offensive operation
August 13 – September 22, 1943 Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)
August 24 – December 23, 1943 Battle of the Dnieper
October 1, 1943 Behind the Dnieper Map
November 3 – December 22, 1943 Battle of Kiev (1943)
December 8–17, 1943 Battle of San Pietro Infine
December 24, 1943 – January 14, 1944 Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive
December 24, 1943 – April 14, 1944 Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
1944 Battle of Romania
January 5–16, 1944 Kirovograd offensive
January 24 – February 17, 1944 Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy
January 30 – February 29, 1944 Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive
February 11, 1944 Rovno–Lutsk offensive
March 6–18, 1944 Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive
March 15 – April 5, 1944 Polesskoe offensive
March 25 – April 15, 1944 Kamenets–Podolsky pocket
March 26 – April 30, 1944 Odessa Offensive
April 5, 1944 Renamed Army Group North Ukraine Map
May 11–23, 1944 Operation Diadem
July 13 – August 29, 1944 Lvov–Sandomierz offensive
July 18 – August 2, 1944 Lublin–Brest offensive
August 20–29, 1944 Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive
September 8 – October 28, 1944 Battle of the Dukla Pass
October 6–29, 1944 Battle of Debrecen
October 29, 1944 – February 13, 1945 Budapest offensive
December 26, 1944 – February 13, 1945 Siege of Budapest
January 1–17, 1945 Operation Konrad
January 12 – February 2, 1945 Vistula–Oder offensive
January 18–27, 1945 Operation Konrad III
February 8–24, 1945 Lower Silesian offensive
March 6–16, 1945 Operation Spring Awakening
March 15–31, 1945 Upper Silesian offensive
April 2–13, 1945 Vienna offensive
April 9–21, 1945 Battle of Bologna
April 21–30, 1945 Battle of Bautzen (1945)
May 6–11, 1945 Prague offensive