After being reformed on 26 January 1945 and taking part in various counter-offensives against the Soviet and US advance, the army surrendered to American troops on 23 April 1945.

His predecessor, Colonel-General Eugen Ritter von Schobert, perished when his Fieseler Storch aircraft landed in a Soviet minefield.

It did not take part in Fall Blau when Army Group South attacked in Southern Russia towards the Caucasus and Stalingrad.

A grateful Adolf Hitler also authorized the Crimean Shield to commemorate the efforts of the 11th Army.

It was a costly victory, however: the 11th Army's casualties and material losses were so high it was no longer a viable fighting force in its own right.

The Red Army now opted 'hugging' tactics, (keeping the front lines as close to the Axis forces as possible), thereby rendering tanks, aircraft, and artillery largely redundant, and placing the entire responsibility on the infantry.

The 11th Army, during the battle of Sevastopol, consisted of nine German infantry divisions (including two taken on strength during the battle), in two corps, and two Romanian rifle corps, plus various supporting elements, including 150 tanks, several hundred aircraft and one of the heaviest concentrations of artillery fielded by the Wehrmacht.