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LVII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
LVII Panzer Corps was a panzer corps in the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army during World War II. This corps was activated in Augsburg in February 1941 as the LVII Army Corps, for the Operation Barbarossa, German invasion of the Soviet Union, which commenced on 22 June 1941. It fought in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk and in the Battle of Moscow. On 21 June 1942, the Corps was renamed LVII Panzer Corps . It Battle of Rostov (1942), fought at Rostov, and then in the Battle of the Caucasus under the control of Army Group A. After the encirclement of the 6th Army and portions of the 4th Panzer Army with the meeting of Soviet forces at Kalach, Army Group Don was formed to establish a perimeter to stop the Soviet advance and ultimately counterattack to relieve the encircled forces in Stalingrad. The LVII Panzer Corps was transferred from Army Group A to the newly formed Army Group Don under General Manstein. The LVII Panzer Corps was tasked with leading Operation Winter Thund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Army (Wehrmacht)
The German Army (, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Federal Republic of Germany, Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German together with the German Navy, ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the German Air Force, ''Luftwaffe'' (German Air Force). , the German Army had a strength of 63,047 soldiers. History Overview A German army equipped, organized, and trained following a single doctrine and permanently unified under one command was created in 1871 during the unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia. From 1871 to 1919, the title ''German Army (German Empire), Deutsches Heer'' (German Army) was the official name of the German land forces. Following the German defeat in World War I and the end of the German Empire, the main army was dissolved. From 1921 to 1935 the name of the German land forces was the ''Reichswehr, Reichsheer'' (Army of the Realm) and from 1935 to 1945 the name ''German Army (We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Caucasus
The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler had issued a directive to launch an operation into the Caucasus named Operation Edelweiß. German units would reach their high water mark in the Caucasus in early November 1942, getting as far as the town of Alagir and city of Ordzhonikidze, some 610 km from their starting positions. Axis forces were compelled to withdraw from the area later that winter as Operation Little Saturn threatened to cut them off. Order of battle Red Army * North Caucasian Front – Marshal Semyon Budyonny (until September 1942) * Transcaucasian Front – General of the Army Ivan Tyulenev *Black Sea Fleet – Vice Admiral Filipp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Beyer (general)
__NOTOC__ Franz Beyer (27 May 1892 – 15 October 1968) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held commands at the divisional and corps levels. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Iron Cross (1914) 2nd Class (10 October 1915) & 1st Class (16 June 1918)Thomas & Wegmann 1987, p. 467. * Friedrich August Cross 2nd Class with Swords (22 August 1916) * Bavarian Military Merit Order 4th Class with Swords (20 December 1916) * Albert Order 2nd Class with Swords (6 December 1917) * Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 (1 November 1934) * Clasp to the Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (13 September 1939) & 1st Class (1 October 1939) * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 12 September 1941 as ''Oberst ''Oberst'' () is a senior field officer rank in several German language, German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel. It is currently used by both the Army, ground and air forces of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Karl Freiherr Von Esebeck
Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck (10 July 1892 – 5 January 1955) was a German general who commanded the 15th Panzer Division in the Afrika Korps. Esebeck had knowledge of and was sympathetic to the anti-Hitler conspiracy in the military. He was arrested on 21 July 1944 and spent the rest of the war in concentration camps. Liberated at the end of the war he lived the rest of his life in poverty and died on 5 January 1955. Awards * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 4 July 1940 as ''Oberst ''Oberst'' () is a senior field officer rank in several German language, German-speaking and Scandinavian countries, equivalent to Colonel. It is currently used by both the Army, ground and air forces of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, a ...'' and commander of the 6. Schützen-BrigadeScherzer 2007, p. 299. References Citations Bibliography * Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007). ''Rommel's Desert Commanders — The Men Who Served the Desert Fox, North Africa, 1941–42''. Mechanicsbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen
__NOTOC__ General Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen (26 July 1889 – 10 July 1964) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXI Army-Corps under Erwin Rommel in Normandy in 1944. He saw service in World War I, and served in a variety of positions in the interwar period. Promoted to Generalmajor in 1938, he assumed command of the 3rd Light Division on 10 November 1938. This unit was reorganized as the 8th Panzer Division in 1939 and Kuntzen led the division in Poland and France. On 15 March 1941 he was appointed to command the LVII Panzer Corps, which he led in Russia until 1942. Awards * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 3 June 1940 as Generalleutnant () is the German-language variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries. Austria Generalleutnant is the second highest general officer rank in the Austrian Armed Forces (''Bundesheer''), roughly equivalent to the NATO ... and commander of 8th Panzer DivisionScherz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Budapest
The siege of Budapest or battle of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, near the end of World War II. Part of the broader Budapest Offensive, the siege began when Budapest, defended by Hungarian and German troops, was encircled on 26 December 1944 by the Red Army and the Romanian Army. During the siege, about 38,000 civilians died through starvation, military action, and mass executions of Jews by the far-right Hungarian nationalist Arrow Cross Party. The city unconditionally surrendered on 13 February 1945. It was a strategic victory for the Allies in their push towards Berlin. General situation Having suffered nearly 200,000 deaths in three years fighting the Soviet Union, and with the front lines approaching its own cities, Hungary was by early 1944 ready to exit World War II. As political forces within Hungary pushed for an end to the fighting, Germany preemptively launched Operation Margarethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Hungarian Army
The Hungarian Third Army () was a field army in the Royal Hungarian Army that saw action during World War II. Commanders * Lieutenant General Elemér Gorondy-Novák from 1 March 1940 to 1 November 1941 * Lieutenant General Zoltán Decleva from 1 November 1941 to 1 December 1942 * Lieutenant General Lajos Csatay from 1 December 1942 to 12 June 1943 * Lieutenant General Károly Beregfy from 12 June 1943 to 15 May 1944 * ''The Hungarian Third Army was disbanded May 1944 and reformed September 1944'' * Colonel General József Vitéz Heszlényi from 19 September 1944 to 8 May 1945 Order of Battle - Yugoslavia - April 1941 On 5 April 1941, the Hungarian Third Army was mobilized for the invasion of Yugoslavia. The invasion began with the bombing of Belgrade and the crossing of the border by the Germans on 6 April. The Third Army faced the Yugoslavian First Army. By the time the Hungarians crossed the border and finally attacked, the Germans had been attacking Yugoslavia for over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Army Group A
Army Group A () was the name of three distinct army groups of the ''German Army (1935–1945), Heer'', the ground forces of the ''Wehrmacht'', during World War II. The first Army Group A, previously known as "Army Group South", was active from October 1939 to June 1941 and notably served in the Battle of France as the decisive army group in the implementation of the "Manstein Plan, Sickle Cut" military plan that inflicted crushing subsequent defeats on the French armed forces at occasions such as the Battle of Sedan (1940), Battle of Sedan, Battle of Boulogne and Battle of Dunkirk and that ultimately led to the Armistice of 22 June 1940. Army Group A was subsequently used in the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, German occupation of France and temporarily became the first Oberbefehlshaber West in German-occupied France. It was eventually replaced in this function by Army Group D and redeployed to German-occupied Poland in preparation for Operatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Rostov (1942)
The Battle of Rostov was an episode of the Fall Blau operation, which lasted five days and pitted the 56th Soviet Army, in retreat, against the 17th German Army and 1st Panzer Army which tried to surround it. It was a definite success for the Germans who, thanks to a "commando" action of the Brandenburg Regiment, took the bridges over the Don, the Bataysk Bridge and the dike to the south of the city and prevented the flooding of swamp, which allowed them to continue their progress towards the Caucasus. See also * Battle of Rostov (1941) * Battle of Rostov (1943) – the Soviet Union recaptured the city. References Bibliography * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rostov 1942 Conflicts in 1942 1942 in the Soviet Union Battles involving the Soviet Union Battles of World War II involving Germany Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War July 1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panzer Corps
A panzer corps () was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's ''Wehrmacht'' during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (''Armeekorps (mot)'' or ''AK(mot)'') were renamed to panzer corps. Panzer corps were created throughout the war, and existed in the Army, the Waffen-SS and even the Luftwaffe. Those renamed from ordinary motorised corps retained their numbering. Purpose Panzer corps underwent transformation as the war went on. Initially they were the main strike force of the ''Wehrmacht'', and consisted of motorised infantry divisions (''ID (mot)'') and panzer divisions. Later in the war it was possible to find panzer corps that consisted solely of infantry divisions. During the initial period of the war the panzer corps predecessor, the motorised corps, were grouped into various panzer groups (''Panzergruppen''). Panzer groups were named (i.e. not designated with numbers) during the campaigns in Poland, France, and Greece, they were not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union. The German Strategic Offensive, named Operation Typhoon, called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west. Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
