Army Group North Ukraine

The Army Group North Ukraine (German: Nordukraine) was a major ground force formation of the German armed forces. It was created on the 1 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South on trial basis, in the course of the separation of troops under command of General Field Marshal Erich von Manstein and General Field Marshal Walter Model. In April 1944 it consisted of 1st Panzer Army and 4th Panzer Army. In the summer of 1944 it opposed the Red Army’s 1st Ukrainian Front during the Lvov-Sandomir strategic offensive operation (13 July - 29 August 1944). In August 1944 the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army defended between Carpathian mountains and the Pripyet swamps in Galicia. In September 1944 it was renamed Army Group A.

Composition

The composition of the Army Group on 15 July 1944 was:

4th Panzer Army

XXXXVI Panzer Corps

XXXXII Corps

LVI Panzer Corps

VIII Corps

1st Panzer Army

LIX Corps

XXIV Panzer Corps

XXXXVIII Panzer Corps

III Panzer Corps

20th Panzer Grenadier Divisions

14th SS Grenadier Division

1st Hungarian Army

VI Hungarian Corps

XI Corps

VII Hungarian Corps

2nd Hungarian Mountain Brigade

19th Hungarian Reserve Division

2nd Hungarian Panzer Division

Kampfgruppe, 19th SS Panzer Grenadier Division

External links

• Lexikon der Wehrmacht

See also

Army Group South

References

• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr., The German Defeat in the East, 1944-45 (Stackpole Military History), Stackpole Books, 2007