Western Front - September 1939 - May 1940 France - May 1940 - June 1941 Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - May 1944 Crimea - May 1944 - July 1944 (bulk destroyed in May 1944; command disbanded in July 1944)[2] Eastern Front - January 1945 - April 1945; command reestablished and then destroyed in the Halbe Pocket in April 1945