Army Group North was commanded by Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb[7] and staged in East Prussia.

On commencement of the Wehrmacht's Baltic offensive operation the army group deployed into Lithuania and northern Belorussia.

However, while the Baltic states were overrun, the Siege of Leningrad continued until 1944, when it was lifted as a result of the Red Army Leningrad-Novgorod strategic offensive operation.

Composition: October 1941 Nevsky Pyatachok Operation Nordlicht Commander in Chief 17 January 1942: GFM Georg von Küchler Composition: September 1942 December 1942 Demyansk Pocket Kholm Pocket Soviet Toropets-Kholm Operation Battle of Velikiye Luki Battle of Krasny Bor Commander in Chief 9 January 1944: Field marshal Walter Model Commander in Chief 31 March 1944: Generaloberst Georg Lindemann Commander in Chief 4 July 1944: Generaloberst Johannes Frießner Commander in Chief 23 July 1944: GFM Ferdinand Schörner March 1944 Battle of Narva, consisting of: Combat in South Estonia, 1944 Soviet Baltic Offensive Battle of Porkuni Battle of Vilnius (1944) Battle of Memel After becoming trapped in the Courland Cauldron after 25 January 1945, the Army Group was renamed Army Group Courland.

October 1944 November 1944 December 1944 Soviet East Prussian Offensive Battle of Königsberg Heiligenbeil pocket Commander in Chief 27 January 1945: Generaloberst Dr. Lothar Rendulic Commander in Chief 12 March 1945: Walter Weiß Composition: February 1945 Soviet East Pomeranian Offensive Battle of Kolberg Courland PocketOn the 25 January 1945 Hitler renamed three army groups.

Between January and February 1945, Army Group North sustained 213,000 casualties, including 30,000 dead, 126,000 wounded, and 57,000 missing.