Army Group North

Army Group North
German: Heeresgruppe Nord
Active2 September 1939 – 10 October 1939
20 June 1941 – 25 January 1945
25 January – May 1945
Country Nazi Germany
Branch Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Size10 September 1943:
919,520 in total[1]
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Army Group North (German: Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Its rear area operations were organized by the Army Group North Rear Area.

The first Army Group North was deployed during the Invasion of Poland and subsequently renamed Army Group B. The second Army Group North was created on 22 June 1941 from the former Army Group C and used in the northern sector of the Eastern Front from 1941 to January 1945. By then, this second Army Group North had gotten trapped in the Courland Pocket and was accordingly redesignated Army Group Courland. On the same day, the former Army Group Center, which was now defending the northernmost sector of the contiguous Eastern Front, was renamed Army Group North, assuming the status of the third and final iteration of the army group.

  1. ^ Obkdo. d. H. Gr. Nord IVa, Az. 62 g. Kdos. Nr. 2095/43 g. Kdos. Verpflegungsstärke nach dem Stand vom 10.9.43. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 19 III/648, fol. 105.