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. 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.
Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians. Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.
Order of Battle, 15 August 1944 (Army HQ)
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- Armeegruppe Dumitrescu – General Petre Dumitrescu
- Romanian Third Army – General Petre Dumitrescu (HQ – Bolgrad)
- Sixth Army – General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico (HQ – Tarutino)
- Armeegruppe Wohler – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
- Eighth Army – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler (HQ – Roman)
- Romanian Fourth Army – General Gheorghe Avramescu (HQ – Bacău)
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References
- 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.
