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German Armed Forces
 
Mobilized
Order of Battle
1 September 1939
  The Army and Waffen-SS
  The Navy
  The Air Force (1)
(1) Linked to "The Luftwaffe, 1933-45" by Michael Holm.
 
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Operational
Orders of Battle
European Theater of Operations
Invasion of Austria, 11 March 1938
     Sonderfall Otto
Scandinavian Campaign, April 1940
     Weserübung
French Campaign, May 1940
     Fall Gelb
Balkan Campaign, April 1941
     Unternehmen Marita
Southeastern Europe, 2 January 1942
     12. Armee
Southeastern Europe, 1 January 1943
     Heeresgruppe E
Southeastern Europe, 10 November 1943
     Luftwaffenkommando Südost
Southeastern Europe, 26 December 1943
     Military and Civilian Administration
     Heeresgruppe F
Southeastern Europe, 16 September 1944
     Heeresgruppe F
Northwest Europe, 6 June 1944
     Neptune (Operation Overlord)
East Front Campaign
Barbarossa – 22 June 1941
     The Army and Waffen-SS
     The Air Force
Fall Blau – 28 June 1942
     The Army and Waffen-SS
Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Battle for Crete, 20 May 1941
     Unternehmen Merkur
North Africa, 23 October 1942
     Battle of El Alamein
North Africa, 11 November 1942
     Torch
Military
Organizations
1 September 1939
  The German Army
10 May 1940
  The German Army and Waffen-SS
22 June 1941
  The German Army
  The Waffen-SS
1942
  The German Army
23 October 1942
  Panzer-Division (Afrika)
  Leichte Afrika Division (mot)
19 May 1943
  Sturmdivision Rhodos
1 January 1944
  SS-Panzerkorps
19 September 1944
  Sturmdivision Rhodos
1 January 1945
  Panzerarmee
  Panzerkorps
  Panzerkorps (neuer Art)
  Panzerkorps Herman Göring
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