- The
Westheer (Western Army) is the name
given to the
German Army
fighting on the
Western Front from
Autumn of 1940 to the end of the war. The Oberbefehlshaber...
- of
Verdun and the
Battle of the
Somme left the
German western armies (
Westheer)
exhausted and on the
Eastern Front, the
Brusilov Offensive had inflicted...
- (German: "Commander-in-Chief in the West") was the
overall commander of the
Westheer, the
German armed forces on the
Western Front during World War II. It was...
- cent) went to Verdun,
against 48
German divisions, 25 per cent of the
Westheer (western army).
Afflerbach wrote that 85
French divisions fought at Verdun...
- with
reinforcements from the
Eastern Front, the
German army in the west (
Westheer)
numbered only 154
divisions against 190
Allied divisions, many of which...
- and
broke the
German lines during the
Battle of Mont St. Quentin. The
Westheer (German
armies on the
Western Front) was
pushed back to the Hindenburg...
-
French frontier, from the c. 1,700,000 men
expected to be
mobilised in the
Westheer (Western Army). The main
German force would still advance through Belgium...
- a
conference at
Cambrai with the
chiefs of
staff of the
armies of the
Westheer (army of the west) as part of a tour of
inspection of the
Western Front...
- Stanisław Maczek) and a
British armoured brigade against Army
Group B of the
Westheer in what
became the
largest encirclement on the
Western Front during the...
-
French frontier, from the c. 1,700,000 men
expected to be
mobilised in the
Westheer (western army). The main
German force would still advance through Belgium...
