The 12th Army was a World War II field army of the Wehrmacht.
Soldiers from the 12th Army on the Acropolis of Athens
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S36487, Wilhelm List
Image: List&Kuntze (cropped)
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1969 041 30, Alexander Löhr
Wilhelm List was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II who was convicted of war crimes by a US Army tribunal after the war. List commanded the 14th Army in the invasion of Poland and the 12th Army in the invasions of France, Yugoslavia and Greece. In 1941 he commanded the German forces in Southeast Europe responsible for the occupation of Greece and Yugoslavia. In July 1942 during Case Blue, the German summer offensive in Southern Russia, he was appointed commander of Army Group A, responsible for the main thrust towards the Caucasus and Baku.
List as General
List (right) with Waffen-SS general Sepp Dietrich (left) in Greece, April 1941
Wilhelm List (left) and Walter Kuntze (right) take a walk in the prison yard during the Hostage Case.