In military history, the German term Kampfgruppe (pl. Kampfgruppen; abbrev. KG, or KGr in Luftwaffe usage during World War II, literally "fighting group"...
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Wilhelm Mohnke (redirect from Kampfgruppe Mohnke)
1944. While participating in the Battle of Berlin, Mohnke commanded Kampfgruppe Mohnke (Combat Group Mohnke) and was charged with defending the government...
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Joachim Peiper (redirect from Kampfgruppe Peiper)
Battle of the Bulge, from which battles his eponymous battle group – Kampfgruppe Peiper – became notorious for committing war crimes against civilians...
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Kampfgruppe is the concept of a flexible combat formation. Kampfgruppe may also refer to: The Combat Groups of the Working Class (German: Kampfgruppen...
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3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf (redirect from Kampfgruppe Eicke)
Death's Head Division. The division was formed through the expansion of Kampfgruppe Eicke, a battle group named – in keeping with German military practice...
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Kampfgruppe 1001 Nights (German: 1001 Nacht) was a German Kampfgruppe formed on the Oder front during the final German offensive of the Second World War...
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Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945). Soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper summarily killed eighty-four U.S. Army prisoners of war (POWs)...
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Kampfgruppe 100 (KGr 100) was a specialist unit of the Luftwaffe during the early stages of World War II. It is best known as the first unit to use the...
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added: Col. Friedrich August von der Heydte was to lead a Fallschirmjäger-Kampfgruppe (paratrooper combat group) in Operation Stösser, a night-time paratroop...
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Kampfgruppe is a computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published in 1984 by Strategic Simulations for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, and...
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