Army Group South Ukraine

Army Group South Ukraine
German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine
Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud
Active5 April – 23 September 1944
Country Nazi Germany
 Romania (until 24 August 1944)
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Branch German Army
 Royal Romanian Army
Size905,000 (500,000 Germans, 405,000 Romanians)[1]

120 tanks + 280 assault guns[2][3]

7,600 artillery pieces[4]
810 aircraft[5]
EngagementsEastern 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]


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