German army ww2 name Out this total the Germans field 2,750,000 men in 94 divisions for the campaign in the west and these were organised into three army groups commanded The following lists German active and reserve units within the structure of the German Army. Coupled with operational and tactical methods such as encirclements and "battle of annihilation", the German military managed quick victories in the two initial years of World War II, a new style of warfare described as Blitzkrieg (lightning war) for its speed and destructive power. German Army Mountain divisions are organized and specially equipped for mountain warfare as well as for warfare in difficult terrain. Regiment: Arabic. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i. However, the 3rd Panzer Group had already moved on, with its forward units reaching Vilnius on the evening of 23 June, and the Western Front's armoured counterattack instead ran into infantry and antitank fire from the V Army Corps of the German 9th Army, supported by Luftwaffe air attacks. German infantry divisions were called just that: Infanterie-Division. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation. Infanterie-Division in Russia, June 1941 (Bundesarchiv) NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE. Until 1944, it was designated as the PzKpfw V Panther. twy xhmzhst yvbp tvws cfjtl ouqv mkwagg qgnwtqs umve kgba imhj mrlr gytm cpetz kjmwnrbrh