Army Group Centre

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Army Group Centre
German: Heeresgruppe Mitte
Active	22 June 1941 – 25 January 1945 25 January 1945 – 11 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Fedor von Bock

Army Group Centre (German: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created during the planning of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as one of the three German Army formations assigned to the invasion.

After Army Group North was trapped in the Courland Pocket in mid-1944, it was renamed to Army Group Courland and the first Army Group Centre was renamed "Army Group North". The second iteration of Army Group Centre was formed by the redesignation of Army Group A as the replacement for the first Army Group Centre.