German Armed Forces

— The Wehrmacht's Victory Theme in Call of Duty: United Offensive

German Military or Wehrmacht orImperial German Army
The Wehrmacht emblem, the "Balkenkreuz".
Appears in	Call of Duty Call of Duty: United Offensive Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Call of Duty 3 Call of Duty: Roads to Victory Call of Duty: World at War Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Call of Duty: Black Ops III Call of Duty: WWII
Active	(World War I) 1914 - 1918 (World War II) 1939 - 1945 (World War III) 2016
Country	German Empire (World War I) Nazi Germany (World War II) Germany (Cold War and World War III)
Leader(s)	Wilhelm II (World War I) Adolf Hitler (World War II)
Branches	Luftwaffe, Heer, Kriegsmarine
Type	Armed forces
Motto	Gott mit uns ("God is with us") Treu, Tapfer, Gehorsam ("Loyal, Valiant, Obedient")

The German Military (or the Wehrmacht and Imperial German Army) is the most prevalent of the antagonist forces in the Call of Duty series, and are the main antagonists in Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, Call of Duty 3, and Call of Duty: WWII. They also appear in Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

In story mode of the Call of Duty series the German soldiers' fighting ability differ from the modes, Easy, Medium, Hard, and sometimes even Veteran. Individual German soldiers do not have much strength or stamina in campaign mode so the player character can kill them easily. In Call of Duty 3 a melee grappling mode is enabled at certain points, in which the character must press a certain sequence of buttons in order to fight off an enemy soldier.

They wear different uniforms throughout each campaign, each suited to the theater of operations - light brown or tan uniforms for desert warfare and white and dark brown winter parkas for winter warfare.

German soldiers in World at War.

Luftwaffe

Main article: Luftwaffe

The Air Force of the German military is often seen in the form of planes which the player must either shoot down or take cover from, their role in Call of Duty is limited as they are rarely directly confronted.They are also in form of Fallschirmjagers (Paratroopers) that are seen commonly in Normandy.

Heer

The German Army (Heer) was the main fighting force in Normandy during D-Day and most seen in the game. They wore regular Field Grey wool uniforms with a Breast Eagle, Litzen collar tabs, Field grey shoulder boards. And standard German field equipment, Helmets.

• There was many German Heer (Army) Division's & Non-German Ost-Battalion's serving in Normandy.
• 709th Infantry Division-649th Russian Ostbattalion,795th Georgian Ostbattalion.
• 352nd Infantry Division
• 716th Infantry Division
• 243rd Infantry Division
• 21st Panzer Division
• 2nd Panzer Division

Kriegsmarine

Main article: Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the naval warfare branch of the German military during World War II. The most significant appearance of the branch forces is during the infiltration of Battleship Tirpitz in Call of Duty, where the player encounters Matrosen and Korvettenkapitän guards on the ship.

Weapons and Vehicles

Guns

Walther P38

Luger

Mauser C96

Machine Pistol

Kar98k

Gewehr 43

Karabin

SVT-40

Double-Barreled Shotgun

STG-44

FG42

Waffe 28

MP40

MG 15

MG34

MG42

FlaK 88

Flakvierling

sFH 18

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KN-44 (dream sequence in "Demon Within")

Haymaker 12 (dream sequence in "Demon Within")

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Locus (dream sequence in "Demon Within")

Explosives

• Panzerfaust 60
• Panzerschreck
• Flammenwerfer 35
• Stielhandgranate
• 8 cm GrW 34
• Kz 8 cm GrW 42
• Nebelwerfer 41
• V-2 Rocket

Aircraft

• Messerschmitt BF109
• Junkers Ju 87
• Messerschmitt Me 323
• Junkers Ju 52
• Focke-Wulf 200 Condor
• Heinkel He 111

Ground Vehicles

• BMW R75
• Kübelwagen
• Opel Blitz
• SdKfz 2
• Sd. Kfz. 10
• Sd. Kfz. 222
• Sd. Kfz. 251
• Horch 1a
• Panzer II
• Panzer IV
• Panther
• Tiger
• Tiger II
• Elefant

German Military Personnel

Main article: German Military/Names

• Richter (K.I.A.)
• Lt. Gen. Heinrich Amsel (K.I.A.)
• Maj. Gen. Edward Richtofen (K.I.A., killed by his Origins version)
• Dr. Ludvig Maxis
• Dr. Friedrich Steiner (K.I.A.)
• Commandant Metz (K.I.A.)
• Brig. Gen., SS-Und Polizeiführer Heinrich (K.I.A.)
• Dr. Peter Straub (K.I.A.)
• Maj. Gen. Heinz Richter (K.I.A.)
• Col. Huber
• Col. Baumann
• Col. Keller
• Col. Sauer
• German Tank Commander (K.I.A.)

Waffen-SS

Main article: Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS were the armed wing of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel. They are rarely seen, and often distinguishable from regular soldiers when playing Call of Duty as their uniforms are slightly different as they wear camouflaged smocks and helmet covers, wore SS runes on the collar, had an eagle on the sleeve, divisional cuff title on the left and black shoulder boards for the enlisted men.

• 1.SS "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" Panzer Division.
• 2.SS "Das Reich" Panzer Division.
• 9th SS "Hohenstaufen" Panzer Division.
• 10th SS "Frundsberg" Panzer Division.
• 12.SS "Hitlerjugend" Panzer Division.
• 17th SS "Gotz Von Berlichingen" Panzergrenadier Division.

Multiplayer Maps

Asylum

Breach

Corrosion

Dome

Downfall

Nightfire

Upheaval

Revolution

Roundhouse

Seelow

Station

Upheaval

Quotes

Main article: German Military/Quotes

Gallery

Call of Duty and United Offensive

Germany's European Mission.

Our air force.

With our flags come victory!

Tanks, your weapon.

Victory at all cost.

Waffen-SS. Join at 17.

Nazi Germany Banner.

Kriegsmarine Banner.

Call of Duty 2

Two Wehrmacht soldiers in Stalingrad.

Spanish Divison Azul in Stalingrad.

Call of Duty 3

Panzer Grenadier model sheet.

Call of Duty: World at War

^{Wehrmacht Victory Theme}

Multiplayer icon.

A Wehrmacht NCO firing a MP40.

A Wehrmacht soldier.

A Wehrmacht officer.

"Traitors" hanging from a telegraph pole.

Wehrmacht soldiers and SS Honor Guards defending the Reichstag.

A German soldier in Stalingrad.

A Wehrmacht sniper.

A German Rifleman.

A Wehrmacht soldier in Stalingrad.

A Wehrmacht soldier being shot.

A Wehrmacht control point.

Character models. (Notice: Volkssturm and Fallschirmjäger models are not used in the game)

German soldier.

Three Wehrmacht soldiers.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

The German military makes an appearance in the flashback mission "Project Nova".

Two German soldiers from "Project Nova".

German model.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Main article: Bundeswehr

The German military appears as the Bundeswehr, providing tank support to Team Metal, appearing only utilizing Leopard 2 tanks

Destroyed Leopard tank in Scorched Earth

A Leopard tank in Scorched Earth

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

The Imperial German Army appears in the intro for Origins.

German soldiers fighting zombies.

German soldiers mining.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

German Infantry.

German Shotgunner.

German Sniper.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Campaign

"The German Tiger Tank. 'King Tiger' they called it. Immune to most munitions. Are you strong enough to defeat it?"

— Sarah Hall talking to the player in her Mind.

The German Military is an enemy faction during a flashback during the mission "Demon Within". In this mission, the Player uses a DNI mental link to force their way into Sarah Hall's mind in which she re-imagines the siege of Bastogne that she references in her final paper at the Academy. The Player must fight against Hall's warped mental universe. In Hall's mind, the German Military and US Military are both mostly using 2060s-era weapons, with the exceptions being the King Tiger tank, the Stielhandgranates, and the mounted MG42s.

Near the end of the mission, German Military zombies appear, attacking the player with vehement ferocity.

Zombies

The German Military appear zombified in the Zombies maps The Giant and Der Eisendrache.

Trivia

• In the mission Hostage! in Call of Duty 3, all the enemies belong to the Feldgendarmerie. Their uniform differ from the standard by wearing Feldgendarmerie on the cuffs and Feldjägerkorps on the gorgets. The Feldgendarmerie were the Military Police Units of the Germany Army in WW2 and were in charge of various police duties including arresting German deserters and defeatists.
• At the end of a victorious multiplayer match when playing as the Wehrmacht in Call of Duty: World at War, during the Königgratzer Marsch, Hitler can be heard saying "Vor uns liegt Deutschland, in uns marschiert Deutschland, und hinter uns, kommt Deutschland!" (translates to "Germany lies before us, Germany marches within us, and Germany follows us!").
• Although the team name says Wehrmacht, the models for the rifleman and submachine gunner for multiplayer in Call of Duty: World at War are actually Waffen-SS due to the distinctive woodland camouflage uniforms and swastika patch.
• Some of the German soldiers in the Soviet missions of Call of Duty 2 bear the decal of the Spanish Blue Division on their helmet, which would imply that they are actually Spanish.
• The zombies in Call of Duty World at War all wear the SS black uniforms.
• In WW2, the uniforms of the solders in the campaign on the kind of weapon they use. SMG soldiers are wearing field caps, Rifleman a helmet and trenchcoat, LMG gunner has leaves on his helmet and Shotgunner has shotgun shells on the uniform and a balaclava covering the lower face. This applies also to Waffen-SS soldiers.