Army Group South Ukraine

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Army Group South Ukraine
Active	5 April – 23 September 1944
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Size	Army group 508,946 (Spring 1944)[1]
Engagements	Eastern Front
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ferdinand Schörner Johannes Frießner

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine) was a German army group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.^[2] 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.^[3][a]

Order of Battle, June 1944[edit]

• Sixth Army - General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico
• Eighth Army - General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
• Romanian Third Army
• Romanian Fourth Army

Commanders[edit]

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Schörner, FerdinandGeneralfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973)	31 March 1944	25 July 1944	86 days
2		Frießner, JohannesGeneraloberst Johannes Frießner (1892–1971)	25 July 1944	23 September 1944	90 days

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References[edit]

• Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C: Center of Military History, US Army. ISBN 9781780392875.
• Klapdor, Ewald (2011). Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books.