Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) – summer offensive on the Eastern Front in southern Russia.Fall Grün (Ireland) ("Case Green") (1940) – planned invasion of Ireland.Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1940) – also known as the "Manstein Plan", the offensive against Western Europe.Fall Grün (Czechoslovakia) ("Case Green") (1938) – planned invasion of Czechoslovakia.Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1935) – planned defense against an incursion by France following a German invasion of Czechoslovakia.List of Axis operational codenames in the European Theatre.German order of battle for Operation Fall Weiss.Plan Zachód for the Polish defence plan.The plan was initiated on 1 September 1939 and was the first European military operation of World War II. A tertiary attack by German and allied Slovak units across the border of Slovakia.Īll three assaults were to converge on Warsaw while the main Polish army was to be encircled and destroyed west of the Vistula River.A secondary attack from the north, from the exclave of East Prussia.A primary attack from the German mainland across the western border of Poland.
German units were to invade Poland from three directions: The plan called for a start of hostilities before the declaration of war. Fall Weiss was developed primarily by Günther Blumentritt and Erich von Manstein while the two were serving as staff officers under General Gerd von Rundstedt with Army Group South in Silesia. The origins of the plan went back to 1928, when Werner von Fritsch started working on it. The German military High Command finalized its operational orders on 15 June 1939 and the invasion commenced on 1 September, precipitating World War II. Dispositions of opposing forces, August 31, 1939, and the German plan of operationįall Weiss ("Case White", "Plan White" German spelling Fall Weiß) was the German strategic plan for the invasion of Poland.
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