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Army Group Vistula (German: Heeresgruppe Weichsel) was an Army Group of the Wehrmacht, formed on 24 January 1945.

206th Infantry Division 4. The first employment of Army Group North was in the Invasion of Poland of 1939, where in September it controlled: 1. 3rd Army 2.

10th Panzer Division 2. 73rd Infantry Division 3. It lasted for 105 days, having been put together from elements of Army Group A (shattered in the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive ), Army Group Centre (similarly largely destroyed in the East Prussian Offensive ), and a variety of new or ad hoc formations. The Vistula–Oder Offensive was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945. October 1944 16th Army 4th Army 3. a reserve of four divisions 1. The main thrust of the offensive was to be conducted by the 3rd Belorussian Front under Ivan Chernyakhovsky.

The army made a major advance into German-held territory, capturing Kraków, Warsaw and Poznań. Army Group North clung on in small pockets around the cities of Libau, Pillau, and Danzig. The Red Army had built up their strength around a number of key bridgeheads, with two fronts commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev. Against …

On 15 July 1944, XXVI Army Corps joined the 3rd Panzer Army, making it part of Army Group …

His forces were tasked with driving westwards towards Königsberg, against the defensive positions of the 3rd Panzer Army and 4th Army, the northern armies of General Georg-Hans Reinhardt's Army Group Centre. On April 9, 1945 Königsberg finally fell to the Red Army, although remnants of Army Group units continued to resist on the Heiligenbeil & Danzig beachheads until the end of the war in Europe.

Soviet IS-2 in Stargard, 19 March 1945. No Retreat, No Surrender Kurland and East Prussia were regions with significant German populations vulnerable to the Soviets. Army Group North (old Army Group Centre), was driven into an ever smaller pocket around Königsberg in East Prussia.