3rd Panzer Army

It's going to be built around the staff.

of 3rd Panzer Army which had retreated into East Prussia but had no troops left, so its personnel were going to be moved into Pomerania to create the core of this headquarters group.

But then Himmler decided that it should be called an SS Panzer Army because that sounds more dramatic.

The tragedy was that the Soviets got bits and pieces of this intelligence from a variety of areas and were worried that actually these were three different armies.