Lone Sentry: TM-E 30-451 Handbook on German Military Forces: Over-all Field Organization: Organization of the Field Forces

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CHAPTER II. ORGANIZATION OF THE FIELD FORCES

Section I. OVER-ALL FIELD ORGANIZATION

The High Command frameworks below the Army High Command are the Army Groups (Heeresgruppenkonimandos) that are formed for particular campaigns to control two to four Armies in a single Theater of Operations, or in an important and more or less self-contained sector under such a theater. Since 1941 the total number of army groups has been between four and twelve.

The chart on page 3 shows the variations in the number of Armies (Armeeoberkommandos) per army group, of corps per army and of divisions per corps.

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