In total, Army Group South Ukraine had 905,000 Axis troops along with 170 tanks and assault guns. These two army groups formed Army Group South Ukraine. Deployed to its west was Army Group Wöhler, under the command of Colonel General Otto Wöhler. Army Group Dumitrescu, under the command of Romanian Colonel General Petre Dumitrescu, covered the east flank to the Black Sea. Romania’s air space was defended by German Luftflotte IV, commanded by Colonel General Otto Dessloch. They poured considerable resources into the defense of Romania. After the campaign, the Wehrmacht became convinced that the next major Soviet offensive was going to occur in southeast Europe. Axis forces had repelled the Second and Third Ukrainian Fronts in their first invasion of Romania during the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive, which took place from April 8 to June 6, 1944. While the Soviets were in the midst of steamrolling German Army Group Center, the southern end of the Eastern Front was a different story. German self-propelled gun in Romania, March-April 1944.
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