The Wehrmacht carried out Action mass executions Rewards_and_punishments of civilians in retaliation for resistance activity e.g. , the Kragujevac massacre .

As the Wehrmacht advanced Cause_to_make_progress , Polish forces withdrew Escaping from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established Building defense lines to the east .

In addition to troops , the Wehrmacht deployed Arranging some 600,000 motor vehicles , and between 600,000 and 700,000 horses for non-combat operations .

The Red Army absorbed Ingestion the Wehrmacht 's strongest blows and forced Causation the Germans into a war of attrition for which they were unprepared Response .

The Wehrmacht never again mounted Military_operation a simultaneous offensive along the entire Eastern Front .

The commandos fought Hostile_encounter their way through the town to escape Escaping overland but many surrendered Surrendering when they ran out of Expend_resource ammunition or were surrounded Surrounding by the Wehrmacht defending Defending Saint-Nazaire .

This offensive , alongside Marshal Zhukov 's great slicing blow , had split Destroying Wehrmacht 's Army Group South into two parts- north and south of Carpathian Mountains .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and replaced Change_of_leadership by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

The goal of this offensive Attack was to split Destroying Wehrmacht 's Army Group South and to clear Removing the German-Romanian-Hungarian forces from most of the Ukrainian and Moldovian territories , which were occupied Control by Axis forces .

In the course of the operation Military_operation , 20 Wehrmacht divisions were either destroyed Destroying , disbanded Dispersal or required major rebuilding Building , while another 60 divisions were reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to 50 % of their establishment strength .

According to German General Kurt von Tippelskirch , this was the biggest Wehrmacht defeat Conquering since Stalingrad .

As a result of this strategic offensive Attack , Wehrmacht 's Army Group South was split Destroying into two parts- north and south of the Carpathian Mountains .

For the Wehrmacht defeat Conquering , the commander of Army Group South Erich von Manstein and the commander of Army Group A Ewald von Kleist were dismissed Dispersal by Hitler and replaced Change by Walther Model and Ferdinand Schörner respectively .

Similarly , most of the Wehrmacht 's panzer divisions stationed Placing in the East were deployed Arranging in the Ukraine , belonging to Army Group South- indicative is the fact that out of 30 panzer and panzer-grenadier divisions available in late 1943 , 22 were stationed Placing in the Ukraine .

In June 1940 , the `` Wehrmacht '' had conquered Conquering most of Western Europe and Scandinavia .

After having several peace offers rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act by the British , Adolf Hitler ordered Request the `` Luftwaffe '' to destroy Destroying the RAF in order to gain Getting air superiority or air supremacy as a prelude to launching Motion Operation Sea Lion , an amphibious assault Hostile_encounter by the `` Wehrmacht '' ( German armed forces ) onto the British mainland .

The Albanian nationalist forces and the 21st Waffen Mountain Division SS `` Skanderbeg '' served Assistance as the rearguard for the Wehrmacht 's retreat Escaping , helping Assistance the Germans successfully withdraw Escaping large forces from Greece and Albania .

The SS Skanderbeg was extensively utilised Using by the Germans , advancing Cause_to_make_progress into the mountains and engaging Action Partisan troops on a daily basis , to cover Preventing_or_letting the flanks of the Wehrmacht .

Britain rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act peace overtures and on 16 July , Adolf Hitler issued Statement Directive 16 to the `` Wehrmacht '' ( German armed forces ) , ordering Arranging preparations for the invasion of Britain , under the codename ( Operation Sea Lion ) .

Paris had been ruled Control by Nazi Germany since the signing Sign_agreement of the Second Compiègne Armistice on 22 June 1940 , after which the `` Wehrmacht '' occupied Control northern and western France .

Operation `` Uzice '' was the first major counter-insurgency operation Military_operation by the German Wehrmacht on the occupied Attack territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II .

In total , the actions of the Wehrmacht , the Waffen-SS , and the SD claimed Statement the lives of 213 civilian residents of Tulle .

Operation Iskra ( ) , a Soviet military operation in January 1943 during World War II , aimed Aiming to break the `` Wehrmacht 's '' Siege of Leningrad .

In addition to the direct damages Damaging incurred by Germany 's industry and air force , the Wehrmacht was forced Request to use Using millions of men , thousands of artillery pieces , and hundreds of millions of shells in a desperate Change_sentiment attempt to halt Process_end American-British Combined Bomber Offensive .

The Wola massacre Killing ( ) was the systematic killing Killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 people in the Wola suburb of Poland 's capital city Warsaw by German Wehrmacht and German collaborators Collaboration in the Russian RONA forces during the early phase of the Warsaw Uprising .

The Second Battle of Târgu Frumos , part of the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive , was a military engagement primarily between the Wehrmacht and Red Army forces in May 1944 , near Iași , Romania .