6th Army (Wehrmacht)
Army · Germany · October 10, 1939 – May 9, 1945 · inactive February 2, 1943 – March 5, 1943
German army under Walter von Reichenau, then Friedrich Paulus, that advanced through Ukraine and was encircled and destroyed at Stalingrad.
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Attached units 4
- July 23, 1942 – August 11, 1942 VIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) Under this formation at Battle of Kalach (Wikipedia infobox)
- July 23, 1942 – August 11, 1942 XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht) Under this formation at Battle of Kalach (Wikipedia infobox)
- July 23, 1942 – August 11, 1942 XIV Panzer Corps Under this formation at Battle of Kalach (Wikipedia infobox)
- July 23, 1942 – August 11, 1942 LI Army Corps (Wehrmacht) Under this formation at Battle of Kalach (Wikipedia infobox)
People who served 2
Strength and losses
Movements
- 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 Map
- June 22 – July 3, 1941 Battle of Białystok–Minsk
- June 23–30, 1941 Battle of Brody (1941)
- July 10 – September 10, 1941 Battle of Smolensk (1941)
- July 15, 1941 – August 8, 1941 Battle of Uman Map
- August 7 – September 26, 1941 Battle of Kiev (1941)
- September 19, 1941 Kiev taken Map
- October 20–24, 1941 First Battle of Kharkov
- October 24, 1941 Kharkov taken Map
- May 12–29, 1942 Second Battle of Kharkov
- June 1 – November 24, 1942 Case Blue
- June 28 – July 24, 1942 Battle of Voronezh (1942)
- July 9, 1942 Case Blue: towards the Don Map
- July 22, 1942 Operation Fischreiher
- July 23 – August 11, 1942 Battle of Kalach
- August 23, 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Reaches the Volga north of Stalingrad Map
- November 23, 1942 Encircled at Stalingrad (Operation Uranus) Map
- February 2, 1943 Surrenders at Stalingrad Map
- July 5 – August 23, 1943 Battle of Kursk
- 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
- December 8–17, 1943 Battle of San Pietro Infine
- 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
- March 6–18, 1944 Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive
- March 26 – April 30, 1944 Odessa Offensive
- 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
- May 6–11, 1945 Prague offensive