11th SS Panzer Army
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The 11th SS Panzer Army was little more than a paper army formed in February 1945 by Heinrich Himmler while he was commander of Army Group Vistula.
Situation 18 April 1945. With the complete destruction of Army Group B in the Ruhr Pocket by that date, 11th Army in the Harz Mountains (center right) became the only large cohesive formation ont the western front capable of offering significant resistance.
Army Group Vistula
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Army Group Vistula was an Army Group of the Wehrmacht, formed on 24 January 1945. It lasted for 105 days, having been put together from elements of Army Group A, Army Group Centre, and a variety of new or ad hoc formations. It was formed to protect Berlin from the Soviet armies advancing from the Vistula River.
Briefing at the headquarters of Army Group Vistula
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S72707, Heinrich Himmler
Image: Gotthard Heinrici
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1979 128 26, Bernhard Hermann Ramcke, Kurt Student crop