17th Army (Wehrmacht)
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The German Seventeenth Army was a field army of Nazi Germany during World War II.
June 1943, German troops in Southern Russia
Wounded soldiers of the 17th Army taken prisoner during the liberation of Sevastopol
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R63893, Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel
Hermann Hoth
Crimean offensive
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The Crimean offensive, 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 th
17th Army (Wehrmacht)
…Divisions. Additionally, the 17th Army had the 111th Infantry Division in reserves. By 10 April 1944, moving troops near the Sivash and together with an attack at the Perekop Isthmus forced 17th Army to fall back to Sevastopol. The German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) intended to hold…
Soviet soldiers crossing Sivash Bay into Crimea in late 1943
Romanian destroyer Regele Ferdinand
Pack donkeys of the Soviet 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps delivering ammunition to the frontline on the Kerch peninsula, April 1944
Actions of the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean Strategic Offensive Operation.