Army Group A was an army group of the German Wehrmacht that existed from 1940 to 1945 during World War II. Gerd von Rundstedt commanded the army group during the Battle of France in 1940, and the army group also took part in the invasion of southern Russia in 1942 after splitting from Army Group South. The army group would fight against the Soviet Union for the rest of the war, and it would become Army Group Center on 25 January 1945, with Ferdinand Schoerner leading the army group until its destruction in the Prague Offensive in May 1945.