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The Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of Army Group South Ukraine , which consisted of Wehrmacht and Romanian formations. [ 5 ]
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU; lit. ' Reich Commissariat of Ukraine ') was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II. It was the civilian occupation regime of much of German-occupied Ukraine (it also included adjacent areas of the Byelorussian SSR, Russian SFSR, and pre-war Poland).
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. [ 1 ] By September 1941, the German-occupied territory of Ukraine was divided between two new German administrative units, the District of Galicia of the Nazi General Government and the ...
By early June 1944, the forces of Field Marshal Walter Model's Army Group North Ukraine had been pushed back beyond the Dnieper and were desperately clinging to the north-western corner of Ukraine. Joseph Stalin ordered the total liberation of Ukraine, and Stavka , the Soviet High Command, set in motion plans that would become the Lvov ...
It was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South under Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model. [2] In April 1944 it consisted of 1st Panzer Army and 4th Panzer Army.In the summer of 1944 it opposed the Red Army's 1st Ukrainian Front during the Lvov-Sandomir strategic offensive operation (13 July - 29 August 1944). [3]
3rd Ukrainian Front on 28 March 1944: [3] - 470,000 men in total - 12,678 guns and mortars - 435 tanks and self-propelled guns in total - 436 combat aircraft: 6th Army on 1 April 1944: - 188,551 men in total [4] 3rd Army on 19 April 1944: - 38,000 men in total [5] (Romanian divisions only, without the 14th Inf. Div.) 1st Mobile Infantry Division:
It commemorates the Liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Germany on 28 October 1944. [1] The first settlements in Eastern Ukraine were liberated by the Red Army in December 1942. Major battles for the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR lasted from January 1943 to the autumn of 1944. At this time, half of Ukraine was in the hands of the Red Army.
The Polesskoe offensive (Russian: Полесская наступательная операция, Polesskaya nastupatelnaya operatsiya), [3] also known as the Battle of Kovel, [4] was a World War II Soviet offensive operation, launched by the 2nd Belorussian Front at the junction of Army Group South and Army Group Center, with the goal to strike deep into the flank and the rear of Army Group ...