Spaniards served in the Blue Division. Many Soviet citizens (Russians and other non-Russian ethnic minorities) joined the Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige)...
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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...
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The Wehrmacht (German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt] , lit. 'defence force') were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted...
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1940, the battalion II./172 was transferred to the 292nd Infantry Division as II./508. A third of the division (Staff/222, I./172, I./202, I./222) was transferred...
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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...
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executing double-pincer movements, pocketing Red Army divisions and destroying them. Facing the Wehrmacht were three Soviet fronts forming a defensive line...
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Gottlob Berger (section Friction with the Wehrmacht)
and five reserve divisions. Berger created a recruiting structure throughout the Reich, mirroring that of the Army, but while the Wehrmacht, which controlled...
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The 403rd Security Division (403. Sicherungs-Division) was a rear-security division in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. Throughout the war, the unit was...
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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...
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Franz Halder (category Colonel generals of the German Army (Wehrmacht))
war, he had a decisive role in the development of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht. Halder began his military service in 1914. In 1937 he met and became...
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