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Encyclopedia > German Fourteenth Army

The German Fourteenth Army (German: 14.Armee Oberkommando) was a World War II field army. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...


The Fourteenth Army was activated on August 1, 1939 with General Wilhelm List in command. First seeing service in Poland until the Polish surrender on October 13, 1939. The army was reactivated for the defence of Italy in 1943, before its final surrender near the Alps. August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...


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After the collapse of the Munich agreement in March 1939, when German armies entered Prague and proceeded to occupy the remainder of Czechoslovakia, Poland and France pledged on May 19, 1939 to provide each other with military assistance in the event either was attacked.
Meanwhile Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands fell quickly against the attack of German Army Group B. The BEF, encircled in the north, was evacuated from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo.On June 10 Italy joined the war attacking France in the south.
German forward units had advanced within distant sight of the golden onion domes of Moscow's Saint Basil's Cathedral, but then on December 5, the Soviets counter-attacked and pushed the Axis back some 150-250 kilometers (100-150 mi), which became the first major German defeat of World War II.
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