A couple of questions on the Eastern Front

[enigma]

Question on the Eastern Front

August 44, Rumania folds iirc

facing Rumanian would have been several Soviet Fronts, facing them would have been a German Army Group.

1st question, as am finding this somewhat differcult to currently find out.
Which Germany Army group was facing the Russians? I would have presumed AG South ... but from what i can see that didnt exist at that time as it had been split up :S
Which Soviet fronts where heading into Rumania?

2nd Question - Is there a correct name for that area of the eastern front? eg The Southern Front for example?

Thanks for any help :)

[OliverMarshall]

Soviet advances from August 1943 to December 1944.

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9356/782pxeasternfront194308to19441.th.png (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=782pxeasternfront194308to19441.png)

Soviet winter and spring offensives

In the north, a Soviet offensive in January 1944 had relieved the siege of Leningrad. The Germans conducted an orderly retreat from the Leningrad area to a shorter line based on the lakes to the south.

In the south, in March, two Soviet fronts encircled Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube's First Panzer Army north of the Dniestr river. The Germans escaped the pocket in April saving most of their men but losing their heavy equipment.

In early May, the Red Army's 3rd Ukrainian Front engaged German Seventeenth Army of Army Group South which had been left behind after the German retreat from the Ukraine. The battle was a complete victory for the Red Army, and a botched evacuation effort across the Black Sea lead to over 250,000 German and Romanian casualties.

During April 1944, a series of attacks by the Red Army near the city of Iaşi, Romania was aiming at capturing the strategically important sector. The German-Romanian forces successfully defended the sector throughout the month of April. The attack aiming at Târgul Frumos was the final attempt by the Red Army to achieve its goal of having a spring-board into Romania for a summer offensive.

With Soviet forces approaching, German troops occupied Hungary on March 20 as Hitler thought that the Hungarian leader, Admiral Miklós Horthy, might no longer be a reliable ally.

Finland sought a separate peace with Stalin in February 1944, but the terms offered were unacceptable. On June 9, the Soviet Union began the Fourth strategic offensive on the Karelian Isthmus that after three months would force Finland to accept an armistice.

Soviet summer offensive


Operation Bagration, a Soviet offensive involving 2.5 million men and 6,000 tanks, was launched on June 22 and was aimed to clear German troops from Belarus. The subsequent battle resulted in the destruction of German Army Group Centre and over 800,000 casualties for the German forces, the greatest defeat for the Wehrmacht during the war. The Soviets swept forward, reaching the outskirts of Warsaw on July 31.

After the destruction of Army Group Center, the Soviets attacked German forces in the South in mid July 1944 and in a months time cleared the Ukraine of German presence.

The Red Army's 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts engaged German Heeresgruppe Südukraine, which consisted of German and Romanian formations, in an operation to occupy Romania and destroy the German formations in the sector. The result of the battle was complete victory for the Red Army, and a switch of Romania from the Axis to the Allied camp.

In October 1944 General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico's 6th Army encircled and destroyed three corps of Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky's Group Pliyev near Debrecen, Hungary. This was to be the last German victory in the Eastern front.

The Red Army's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Baltic Fronts engaged German Army Group Centre and Army Group North to capture the Baltic region from the Germans. The result of the series of battles was a permanent loss of contact between Army Groups North and Centre, and the creation of the Courland Pocket in Latvia.

From 29 December 1944 to 13 February 1945, Soviet forces laid siege to Budapest which was defended by German Waffen-SS and Hungarian forces. It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war.

Hope that helps. :)

[[BEF]-R!G4M0RT!Z]

Well the 2nd Front, with the Russian's is often called 'Operation Barbarossa', because Hitler wanted to do what Barbarossa had done, and invade Russia, although it would be the Eastern Front. About your first question, I am not sure of the answer.

[enigma]

thanks Shrapnel, i only glanced over that article before and missed the vital info i was looking for in reguards to question 1
which is all in a few paragraphs below the map.

its 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts (i was looking at the 4th Ukrainian Front before Doh! :rolleyes: )
facing off agaisnt Heeresgruppe Südukraine - 6th and 8th armies

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/AugDec.jpg

looking at that map just reminded me that the book 'The Forgotten Soldier' sajer mentions the GD division was there.

lol i find nothing, someone puts me on the right foot and off i go! :eek: lol


but as for the 2nd question, what did the Russians, Rumanians and Germans refer to that end of the frontline - The Souther Front, The Balkens Front, The Rumanian Front, the Arh the Big hole in the line Front, :confused:

[OliverMarshall]

The Southern Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the Second World War. This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated boundaries.

The Southern Front describes either of two distinct organizations during the war. The first version was created on June 25, 1941 from the forces in the Moscow and Odessa military districts. It received additional forces from the (disbanded) Southwestern Front on July 12, 1942 and was formally disbanded on July 28, 1942, with the forces transferred to the North Caucasus Front.

The second version of this Front was created from the Stalingrad Front on January 1, 1943. It was renamed the 4th Ukrainian Front on October 20, 1943.


The Battle of the Romania 1944 denotes combat operations usually referred to as 'Jassy-Chişinău Operation' between the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army in Eastern Romania during late August and early September of 1944. The Red Army's 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts engaged German Heeresgruppe Südukraine, which consisted of German and Romanian formations, in an operation to occupy Romania and destroy the German formations in the sector. The result of the battle was complete victory for the Red Army, and a switch of Romania from the Axis to the Allied camp.

Maybe that helps?

[enigma]

yep its been helpful thanks :)

lol i cant belive it though i spent like an hour browisng the net before i caved in and asked for help ... then its like everything i needed was under my nose :eek: :o :rolleyes:

Thanks alot :)

[OliverMarshall]

lol no problem ;)