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The 6th Panzer Army is best noted for its leading role in the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945).. Although it never received an SS designation, calling it the 6th SS Panzer Army came into general use in military history literature after the Second World War, most likely due to being led by a SS General and commanding many SS units or to separate it from the Wehrmacht ...
Number Division Name (in German) Ethnic composition Named after Years Active Insignia Maximum Manpower 1st: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Germans and 300 Italians after 8/9/1943: Life Regiment Adolf Hitler
IV SS Panzer Corps was transferred to the 6th Army's command [31] and a series of relief attempts, codenamed Operation Konrad, was launched during the 46-day-long Siege of Budapest. [32] After the failure of Konrad III, the 6th Army was made part of "Army Group Balck" (Armeegruppe Balck). This army group fell back to the area near Lake Balaton.
This is a list of German military units during World War II which contains all military units that served with the German Armed Forces . Major units above corps level are listed here. For smaller units, see list of German corps in World War II and list of German divisions in World War II .
The 6th Panzer Division (English: 6th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Heer, during World War II, established in October 1939.. The division, initially formed as a light brigade, participated in the invasions of Poland, Belgium, France and the Soviet Union.
It was subsequently subordinate, in order, to the 19th Army in September 1944, [3] the 7th Army between October and December 1944, [4] the 6th Panzer Army in January 1945, [5] the 5th Panzer Army between February and March 1945, [6] and the 11th Army in April 1945.
Organisation (January 1942): 6th, 26th, 110th, 161st and 256th Infantry Divisions; 1st Panzer Division; heavy artillery, Nebelwerfer, anti-tank and pioneer detachments In Operation Barbarossa, the VI Corps became part of Army Group Centre, to which it remained attached until the very final period of the war.
Erhard Raus (8 January 1889 – 3 April 1956) was an Austrian general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.He commanded the 6th Panzer Division during the early years of the war on the Eastern Front before taking army and army group commands.