Editing Army Group A (section)

=== Preparations for Barbarossa ===
Starting on 1 April 1941, Army Group A was assigned the cover name Section Staff Winter ({{Langx|de|Abschnittsstab Winter|label=none}}), later changed to Section Staff Silesia ({{Langx|de|Abschnittsstab Schlesien|label=none}}), to prepare for [[Operation Barbarossa]], the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|German invasion of the Soviet Union]]. On the day that this offensive began, 22 June 1941, Army Group A was formally renamed "[[Army Group South]]", thus ending the first deployment of Army Group A.<ref name="Tessin 1977" />{{Rp|page=7}}