Army Group Centre was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created during the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as one of the three German Army formations assigned to the invasion.
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1977 120 11, Fedor von Bock
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1973 139 14, Günther v. Kluge
Image: Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch
Image: Walther Model on the front
The German Army was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million soldiers served in the German Army. Army personnel were made up of volunteers and conscripts.
Adolf Hitler with Wilhelm Keitel, Friedrich Paulus, and Walther von Brauchitsch, October 1941
German soldiers in Greece, April 1941
Soldiers of the Großdeutschland Division during Operation Barbarossa, 1941
"Above All Stands the German Infantry" — Nazi propaganda poster