Second Army (Germany)

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The German Second Army (German: 2. Armee Oberkommando) was a World War I and World War II field army.

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The German Second Army during World War I, fought on the Western Front and took part in the Schlieffen Plan offensive against France and Belgium in August 1914. Commanded by General Karl von Bülow, the Second Army's mission was to support the German First Army's sweep around the left flank of the French Army and encircle Paris, bringing a rapid conclusion to the war. The Second Army laid siege to, and took the Belgian fortresses around Namur, and fought General Charles Lanrezac's French Fifth Army at the Battle of Charleroi on August 23-24, 1914 and again at St. Quentin on August 29-30, 1914.

The Second Army was activated on October 20, 1939 with General Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs in command. First seeing service in France, the army was involved in the invasion of the Balkans, before offensive operations in the Ukraine as part of Operation Barbarossa.

In 1945 the army was pivotal in the defence of East and West Prussia before finally surrendering on 9 May 1945.[1]

  1. ^ Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Penguin Books, 2002, ISBN 0-670-88695-5, pp.26,49,50,88,90,115-116,119,402
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