Wilhelm List

…Group A (under Field Marshal Wilhelm List) and Army Group B (under Bock). Within days, Bock was replaced at the head of Army Group B by Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs. The division of forces placed tremendous pressure on an already-strained logistical support system. It also caused a gap between…

…drive eastward against Łódź; General Wilhelm List’s 14th Army, on the right, was to push on toward Kraków and to turn the Poles’ Carpathian flank; and General Walther von Reichenau’s 10th Army, in the centre, with the bulk of the group’s armour, was to deliver the decisive blow with a…

…massive air raids struck Belgrade, List’s 12th Army drove westward and southward from the Bulgarian frontiers, Kleist’s armoured group northwestward from Sofia, and Weichs’s 2nd Army southward from Austria and from western Hungary. The 12th Army’s advance through Skopje to the Albanian border cut communications between Yugoslavia and Greece in…