| 1 |
Initially OKH was responsible for all Army formations and was supreme within OKW which was meant to be only a co-ordinating HQ without command authority. As the war went on, OKH continually lost influence and power to OKW until by 1943, OKH was merely acting as a High Command for the Eastern Front having lost all command powers over Army units in other theatres to OKW. |
| 2 |
In December 1941, Adolf Hitler sacked Field Marshal von Brauchitsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and assumed the role himself (he was already Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht); thereafter OKH lost any independence it once had to control the war. |
| 3 |
There is no formal date as far as I can see for the division of responsibility over different theatres of war between OKH and OKW. This database assumes 22 June 1941 as the cutoff date because it is from this date that the OKW War Diary identifies HQs as being in the OKH Theatre of War or the OKW Theatre of War. However, where an Army Group HQ is identified as also acting as Oberbefehlshaber (i.e OB West) earlier than that date, then that earlier date is used. |