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    to Wehrkreis VI.: 32  Wehrkreis VII was headquartered at Munich and contained the south of the modern-day German state of Bavaria.: 2  Wehrkreis VII...
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    Wehrkreis IV (Dresden) Nebe, Arthur, chief of Criminal Police Olbricht, Lieutenant General Friedrich, chief of staff to General List, Wehrkreis IV (Dresden)...
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    during World War II. The IV Army Corps was formed on 1 October 1934 in Wehrkreis IV (4th Military District) in Dresden by the expansion of the 4th Infantry...
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    headquarters of the German military district Wehrkreis IV for personnel guarding an Oflag POW camp for officers, when Oflag IV-C was established in the castle. It...
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  • 1939 with Oberst Konrad Haase as its commander. Stationed at Dresden, Wehrkreis IV, by January 1940, it included three infantry regiments and Haase had...
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    existed only in Germany and Austria and generally conformed to the existing Wehrkreis (Military Districts) of the Wehrmacht. During the Second World War, additional...
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  • 1944 in Wehrkreis V; initially equipped with Panzer Detachment 2112, Panzergrenadier Regiment 2112 and Brigade Units 2112. Redeployed from Wehrkreis V to...
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  • Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Schwedler was made commanding general of the IV. Army Corps following the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair of 1938. He was transferred...
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     German Army Type Panzer Role Armoured warfare Size Division Garrison/HQ Wehrkreis IV: Dresden Engagements World War II Invasion of Yugoslavia Operation Barbarossa...
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    Division Ulrich von Hutten was formed on 30 March 1945 in Wittenberg in Wehrkreis IV. The Ulrich von Hutten Division was part of the 35th and final Aufstellungswelle...
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    Battalion: Kw.Trsp.Abt.564.) was established (Aufstellung) in June 1941 in Wehrkreis IV: Dresden, and assigned to Heerestruppe bei der Heeresgruppe B im Westen...
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  • regiments. On 20 August 1940, the division was formally dissolved in Wehrkreis IV. The divisional staff had already been called upon on 1 August 1940 to...
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  • Franco-German border, the Phoney War. Its assembly was implemented by Wehrkreis IV, and its staff was initially formed using personnel from Division Command...
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  • battalion. It was subordinated to Gruppenkommando 1. The commander of Wehrkreis IV was simultaneously the commander of the 4th Division. For the leadership...
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  • 11th SS Police Regiment Country  Nazi Germany Branch Schutzstaffel Type Security Size Regiment Garrison/HQ Wehrkreis IV...
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    in the second wave of mobilisation, mainly from Saxon reservists in Wehrkreis IV. It included the 171st Infantry Regiment from the 24th Infantry Division...
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    redeployed as 256th Volksgrenadier Division. The division was raised in Wehrkreis IV (Dresden) on 26 August 1939. The division was shipped to Poland (Protektorat...
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    1939 as part of the third wave of deployment in the Dresden area in Wehrkreis IV (Saxony). The division initially consisted of the Artillery Regiment...
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  • August 1939, each Wehrkreis (military district) was assigned a division to organize the reserves and training of recruits. The Wehrkreis IV (Saxony) was assigned...
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    November. It was initially staffed primarily with personnel of Wehrkreis III and Wehrkreis IV and armed with captured Czechoslovak military equipment that...
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  • Bergen, II Battalion was in Halden, III Battalion occupied Kongsvinger and IV Battalion garrisoned Oslo. Arico, pp. 373, 375, 377, 382–83; Tessin & Kanapin...
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  • 26th SS Police Regiment Country  Nazi Germany Branch Schutzstaffel Type Security Size Regiment Garrison/HQ Wehrkreis IV...
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    the staff as well as the 2nd Detachment of Artillery Regiment 223 from Wehrkreis IV. The resulting artillery formation was dubbed Artillery Regiment 235...
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    district. e.g. Stalag II-D was the fourth Stalag in Military District II (Wehrkreis II). Sub-camps had a suffix "/Z" (for Zweiglager - sub-camp). The main...
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  • Johann Stever. The division nominally fell within the responsibility of Wehrkreis IV and was one of several static divisions raised for service in the occupied...
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  • II, active from 1940 to 1945. The corps was formed on 20 May 1940 in Wehrkreis IV with a home station at Naumburg, which was changed to Bautzen on 8 June...
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  • Aufstellungswelle. It was first formed on 26 August 1939 in Komotau in Wehrkreis IV. It initially consisted of the Infantry Regiments 304, 394, and 414,...
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    division was headquartered in Cottbus, in the German military district Wehrkreis III. In 1938, the 3rd Light Division was formed, consisting of the 67th...
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    (Wehrkreis I) and chief of the 1st Division in Königsberg. As a consequence of the German re-armament the command position Befehlshaber im Wehrkreis I...
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  • Flak Corps (redirect from IV Flak Corps)
    Neustadt, V Flak Corps was also placed in charge of the air defenses of Wehrkreis XVII, including 24th Flak Division in Vienna and 7th Flak Brigade in Linz...
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