This article lists divisions of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) and Waffen-SS active during World War II, including divisions of the Heer (army), Luftwaffe...

regiment of the combined Wehrmacht German armed forces. The regiment would later be expanded and renamed Infanterie-Division Großdeutschland in 1942,...

effectiveness of the Wehrmacht formations. With this Army Group South withdrew to the line of the Dnieper. Personnel losses in August for the division were even...

Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in WWII. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3438-7. Ripley, Tim (2003). The Wehrmacht: The German Army in World War...

executing double-pincer movements, pocketing Red Army divisions and destroying them. Facing the Wehrmacht were three Soviet fronts forming a defensive line...

officer, Major Bakarec. The Croatian divisions that served in the Wehrmacht were commonly known as "legionnaire divisions". Although originally intended for...

headed towards Iłża. There, it engaged in combat with 3rd Light Division of the Wehrmacht. In the following days, the unit fought a bloody battle with German...

March 1969) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 22nd Panzer Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross...

and five reserve divisions. Berger created a recruiting structure throughout the Reich, mirroring that of the Army, but while the Wehrmacht, which controlled...

a ratio of 1:6. Despite German unit performance, the Wehrmacht was now lacking strategic reserves. In late 1943 just 25 per cent of Luftwaffe day fighters...

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Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. Nine were attached to the Wehrmacht security divisions. Two battalions were assigned to support the Einsatzgruppen,...

tactical operations of the Red Army successfully avoided the mobile reserves of the Wehrmacht and continually "wrong-footed" the German forces. Despite the...

the Galicia Division into an effective fighting force. The division's chief of staff from January 1944 until the end of the war, Wehrmacht Major Wolf-Dietrich...

dubbed the battle to be "the Wehrmacht’s greatest victory of the war". According to Barbarossa's operational plan, the Wehrmacht's Army Group South, under...

The Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive were the product of a German recruitment effort targeting German males between the ages of 16 and 60,...

Nazi Germany HIAG List of SS personnel List of Waffen-SS divisions Myth of the clean Wehrmacht Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück...

where the SS-Guards fled after being confronted by a regular German Wehrmacht unit led by Wichard von Alvensleben and told to stand down by the Supreme...

(German: Wüstenfuchs, pronounced [ˈvyːstn̩ˌfʊks] ), he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany, as well as in the Reichswehr of the Weimar...

whose division was instrumental in the Allied liberation of France, closing the Falaise pocket, resulting in the destruction of 14 German Wehrmacht and...

Panzer-Division January 1945 16. Panzer-Division 17. Panzer-Division Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945: Band...

British 11th Armoured Division. The body of the LSSAH was rushed to the front from Falaise, where it was being held in reserve. It counterattacked at...

German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS was...

universal practice in the Wehrmacht in late 1940 and early 1941. The campaign opened on 22 June 1941, with Guderian urging his divisions forward at breakneck...

Trautenau, Sachsenspiegel 52, Cellesche Zeitung, 31 December 2011 www.kuk-wehrmacht.de www.marlesreuth.de 50°33′23″N 15°54′55″E / 50.55639°N 15.91528°E...

Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen operated in territories occupied by the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) following the invasion of Poland in September 1939...

managed a 165-piece batch in 1940, and a further batch of 300 pieces in 1941. The final three howitzers were made in Stalingrad from remaining reserves. The...

faced the veteran 712th Wehrmacht Infantry Division. Stiff opposition was met by the Inniskilling Dragoons of 7th Armoured Division, particularly at Middelrode...

Presentations were made to members of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht—the Heer (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well...

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht on 21 July 1942 (at the end of the First Battle of El Alamein) in which he highly rated the New Zealand Division. This view was...