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 1973 139 14, Günther v. Kluge
Image: Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch
Image: Walther Model on the front
Army Group Courland was a German Army Group on the Eastern Front. It was created from remnants of the Army Group North, isolated in the Courland Peninsula by the advancing Soviet Army forces during the 1944 Baltic Offensive of the Second World War. The army group remained isolated in the Courland Pocket until the end of World War II in Europe. All units of the Army Group were ordered to surrender by the capitulated Wehrmacht command on 8 May 1945.
German civilians and soldiers of Army Group Courland evacuate via Windau (Ventspils), 19 October 1944.
Ultra decrypt of a message from Berlin to Army Group Courland, 14 February 1945