__NOTOC__ Army Group South Ukraine (german: Heeresgruppe Südukraine) was a

German army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

group on the Eastern Front during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming

Army Group A Army Group A (Heeresgruppe A) was the name of several German Army Groups during World War II. During the Battle of France, the army group named Army Group A was composed of 45½ divisions, including 7 armored panzer divisions. It was responsibl ...

. This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated

Army Group South Army Group South (german: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of three German Army Groups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September Campaign, along with Army Group North to invade Poland. In the invasion of Poland Army Group So ...

(''Heeresgruppe Süd'') at midnight on 23 September 1944.

Order of Battle, June 1944

* Sixth Army -

General der Artillerie General der Artillerie ( en: General of the artillery) may mean: 1. A rank of three-star general, comparable to modern armed forces OF-8 grade, in the Imperial German Army and its contingency armies of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württembe ...

Maximilian Fretter-Pico * Eighth Army - General der Infanterie Otto Wohler * Romanian Third Army * Romanian Fourth Army

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* * South Ukraine Military units and formations established in 1944 Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 {{Germany-mil-unit-stub