Army Group South was the name of one of three German Army Groups during World War II.
Briefing at the headquarters of Army Group South at Poltava on 1 June 1942
Soldiers of the Army Group South crossing the Soviet border in Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S37772, Gerd v. Rundstedt
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183 S37772, Gerd v. Rundstedt
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