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Encyclopedia > German Seventh Army

The German Seventh Army (German: 7.Armee Oberkommando) was a World War II field army.


The Seventh Army was activated on August 25, 1939 with General Friedrich Dollmann in command. The Army was part of Army Group B during the Battle of Normandy. It was commanded by SS Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser, former commander of II SS Panzer Corps. The Seventh Army did most of the fighting during Normandy and its only help was the new Fifth Panzer Army. The Fifteenth Army was stationed at the Pas de Calais for an invasion. The Seventh Army was nearly wiped out in the Falaise Pocket. During Operation Market-Garden, the Seventh Army was in the Ardennes on the Belgian-Luxembourg border for Hitler's offensive on the Western Front. During the Battle of the Bulge, it protected Fifth Panzer Army but it was almost wiped out again. After Remagen, when the Allies surrounded the Ruhr pocket, the Seventh Army surrendered to the US First Army. August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Battle of Normandy Conflict World War II, Western Front Date June 6, 1944 – August 25, 1944 Place Normandy, France Result Allied victory The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading American, British, and Canadian forces. ... Paul Papa Hausser (October 7, 1880 - December 21, 1972) was an officer in the German Army, achieving the high rank of Lieutenant General in the inter-war Reichswehr, after retirement from regular Army he became the father (thus the nickname “Papa”) of the Waffen-SS and one of its most... Pas-de-Calais is a département in northern France named after the strait which it borders. ... During World War II, the Falaise pocket (also known as the Chambois pocket, Chambois-Montcormel pocket, Falaise-Chambois pocket) was the area between the four cities of Trun-Argentan-Vimoutiers-Chambois near Falaise, France, in which United States 12th Army Group encircled and destroyed the German Seventh Army. ... Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation in World War II, which took place in September 1944. ... The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests and rolling hill country (its highest point is under 700 m), primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France (lending its name to the Ardennes département and the Champagne-Ardenne région) and Germany, where this range is known as... The Kingdom of Belgium (Dutch: Koninkrijk België, French: Royaume de Belgique, German: Königreich Belgien) is a country in Western Europe, bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and the North Sea. ... The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small landlocked state in the north-west of the continental European Union, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium. ... Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), a German politician who was the founder of the Third Reich (1933-1945), is widely regarded as one of the most significant and reviled leaders in world history. ... During World War II, the Western Front was the theater of fighting west of Germany, encompassing France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemberg, and Denmark. ... The German Ardennes Offensive1, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, started in late December 1944 and was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. The German army had intended to split the Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp and then proceeding to... Remagen is a city in Germany in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate in the south of Bonn at the Rhine river. ... The Ruhr Pocket was an area of Germany formed in April of 1945 during World War II. It was the result of the U.S. Army trapping numerous Wehrmacht forces in the Ruhr industrial region. ... The United States First Army was first activated in August 1918. ...


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