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During the launch of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, German Army Group South was commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt.12
Operating from southern Poland, his forces advanced into Ukraine against Kiev, supported by an armoured group under the command of General Paul Ludwig von Kleist.2