Appendix II

Order of Battle: Western Front 1940 (under OKW command)

OKH Reserve

German Second Army

5th Infantry Division

German Ninth Army

I Corps

XVII Corps

XXXVI Corps

XXXVIII Corps

XXXIX Corps

XLII Corps

XLIII Corps

German Army Group A

Commanded by Colonel General Gerd von Rundstedt

(Chief of Staff – Lt.Gen. Georg von Sodenstern)

German Fourth Army – Colonel General Günther von Kluge

(Chief of Staff – Maj.Gen. Kurt Brennecke)

II Corps – General of Infantry Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel

12th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach

31st Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Rudolf Kämpfe

32nd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Franz Böhme

V Corps – General of Infantry Richard Ruoff

62nd Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Walter Keiner

94th Infantry Division – General of Infantry Hellmuth Volkmann

263rd Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Franz Karl

VIII Corps – General of Artillery Walter Heitz

8th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Rudolf Koch-Erpach

28th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Johann Sinnhuber

XV Corps – General of Infantry Hermann Hoth

5th Panzer Division – Lt.Gen. Joachim Lemelsen

2nd Infantry Division (mot.) – Lt.Gen. Paul Bader

7th Panzer Division – Maj.Gen. Erwin Rommel

Reserves

87th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Bogislav von Studnitz

211th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Kurt Renner

267th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Ernst Fessman

German Twelfth Army – Colonel General Wilhelm List

(Chief of Staff – Lt.Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen)

III Corps – General of Artillery Curt Haase

3rd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Walter Lichel

23rd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt

52nd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Hans-Jürgen von Arnim

VI Corps – General of the Engineers Otto-Wilhelm Forster

15th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Ernst-Eberhard Hell

205th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Ernst Richter

XVIII Corps – General of Infantry Eugen Beyer/Lt.Gen. Hermann Ritter von Speck

25th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Erich-Heinrich Clössner

81st Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Löper

290th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Max Dennerlein

German Sixteenth Army – General of Infantry Ernst Busch

(Chief of Staff – Maj.Gen. Walter Model)

VII Corps – General of Infantry Eugen Ritter von Schobert

16th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Heinrich Krampf

24th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Justin von Obernitz

36th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Georg Lindemann

76th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Maximilian de Angelis

299th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Willi Moser

XIII Corps – Lt.Gen. Heinrich von Vietinghoff

17th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Herbert Loch

11st Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Otto Sponheimer

160th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Otto Schunemann

XXIII Corps – Lt.Gen. Albrecht Schubert

73rd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Bruno Bieler

82nd Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Josef Lehmann

86th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Joachim Witthöft

Reserves

6th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Arnold von Biegeleben

26th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Sigismund von Forster

71st Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Karl Weisenberger

Panzer Group ‘Kleist’ – General of Cavalry Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (Chief of Staff – Maj.Gen. Kurt Zeitzler)

XIV Corps – General of Infantry Gustav Anton von Wietersheim

9th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Georg von Apell

13th Mot.Division – Maj.Gen. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch

9th Panzer Division – Maj.Gen. Alfred Hubicki

10th Panzer Division – Lt.Gen. Ferdinand Schaal

Infantry Regiment ‘Grossdeutschland’ – Lt.Col. Gerhard von Schwerin

XXXXI Corps

2nd Motorized Division – Josef Harpe

Reserve

27th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen Friedrich Bergmann

German Army Group B

Commanded by Colonel General Fedor von Bock

(Chief of Staff – Lt.Gen. Hans von Salmuth)

German Sixth Army – Colonel General Walter von Reichenau

(Chief of Staff – Maj.Gen. Friedrich Paulus)

XVI Corps – General of Cavalry Erich Hoepner

4th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Erich Hansen

33rd Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Rudolf Sintzenich

3rd Panzer Division – Maj.Gen. Horst Stumpff

4th Panzer Division – Maj.Gen. Ludwig Radlmeier

IV Corps – General of Infantry Viktor von Schwedler

15th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Ernst-Eberhard Hell

205th Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Ernst Richter

XI Corps – Lt.Gen. Joachim von Kortzfleisch

7th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Eccard von Gablenz

211th Infantry Division – Maj.Gen. Kurt Renner

253rd Infantry Division – Lt.Gen. Fritz Kuhne

IX Corps

XVI Corps

3rd Panzer Division

4th Panzer Division

XXVII Corps

German Eighteenth Army – Georg von Kuchler

Reserves

208th Infantry Division

225th Infantry Division

526th Infantry Division

SS Verfügungstruppe Division

7th Airborne Division

22nd Air Landing Infantry Division

9th Panzer Division

207th Infantry Division

X Corps

SS ‘Adolf Hitler’ Division

227th Infantry Division

1st Cavalry Division

XXVI Corps

SS Der Führer Division

254th Infantry Division

256th Infantry Division

German Army Group C

Commanded by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb

German First Army – Erwin von Witzleben

XII Corps

XXIV Corps

XXX Corps

XXXVII Corps

German Seventh Army – Friedrich Dollmann

Reserves

XXV Corps

XXXIII Corps

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