91. Infanterie-Division

The 91. Infanterie-Division was formed in January 1944 and in March 1944 is was redesignated Infanterie-Division (Luftlande). Although earmarked and equipped for air landing operations, the division was transferred to Normandy in May 1944 where it formed part of the static defenses of the Cotentin Peninsula. The division was strengthened by the attachment of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6 and Panzer-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Abteilung 100. The division was destroyed near Cherbourg on 22 June 1944 and disbanded on 10 August 1944.

A planned reformation of the 91. Infanterie-Division from a Kampfgruppe was cancelled on 5 November 1944. The 344. Infanterie-Division was formed in its place.


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89. Infanterie-Division

The 89. Infanterie-Division was formed in January 1944 at the Truppenübungsplatz Bergen. It was destroyed in the Falaise pocket and was rebuilt with Grenadier-Regiment 163 added as a third regiment.
In March 1945 it was again destroyed in the Eifel mountains. 
It was again reformed in April from Brigade 1005 and Brigade Baur, this time as a Kampfgruppe.


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88. Infanterie-Division

The 88. Infanterie-Division was formed in December 1939 at Truppenübungsplatz Grafenwöhr as part of the 6th welle (wave) and was equipped with captured Czech equipment. It was strengthened by absorbing the Divisionsgruppe 323 formed by elements of the disbanded 323. Infanterie-Division on 2 November 1943.
It was refitted with Divisionsgruppe 112 from Korps-Abteilung B in March 1944 and was destroyed in January 1945.


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87. Infanterie-Division

The 87. Infanterie-Division was formed in August 1939. It surrendered to the Soviet forces in Courland at the end of the war.

Area of operations

Germany (Sep 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - June 1941) 
Eastern front, central sector (June 1941 - May 1944) 
Eastern front, northern sector (May 1944 - Oct 1944) 
Kurland pocket (Oct 1944 - May 1945) 


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86. Infanterie-Division

The 86. Infanterie-Division was formed on 26 August 1939 as part of the 3. Welle (wave). It was disbanded in November 1943 after suffering heavy losses on the Eastern Front. The divisional staff, signals and supply units were used to form the 361. Infanterie-Division while other surviving elements formed Divisions-Gruppe 86 which was assigned to Korps-Abteilung E.

Area of operations

West Wall (Sep 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - June 1941) 
Eastern Front, central sector (June 1941 - Nov 1943) 

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85. Infanterie-Division

The 85. Infanterie-Division was formed in February 1944 and was destroyed near Aacen in March 1945. In September 1944 it was strengthened by the addition of manpower from the disbanded 6. Schiffsstammregiment.

It was planned to be reformed but it instead was used to form Infanterie-Division Potsdam.


Area of operations

France (Feb 1944 - Sep 1944) 
Netherlands & western Germany (Sep 1944 - Mar 1945) 

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84. Infanterie-Division

The 84. Infanterie-Division was formed February 1944 as part of the 25th welle (wave). It was captured at the Falaise gap, France, in August 1944.

It was reformed in September 1944 and was disbanded in May 1945 after suffering heavy losses.


Area of operations

Poland (Feb 1944 - May 1944) 
France (May 1944 - Aug 1944) 
[Reformed]
Netherlands & western Germany (Sep 1944 - May 1945) 

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83. Infanterie-Division

The 83. Infanterie-Division was formed in December 1939 at Truppenübungsplatz Bergen and was equipped with captured Czech equipment. It surrendered to the Soviet forces at Hela on 26 April 1945.

Area of operations

Poland (Dec 1939 - May 1940)
France (May 1940 - Dec 1940)
Germany (Dec 1940 - Jan 1941)
France (Jan 1941 - Dec 1941)
Eastern Front, central sector (Dec 1941 - Oct 1943)
Eastern Front, northern sector (Oct 1943 - Oct 1944)
Kurland pocket & West Prussia (Oct 1944 - Apr 1945)

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82. Infanterie-Division

The 82. Infanterie-Division was formed in December 1939 as part of the 6. Welle (wave) at Truppenübungsplatz Hammelburg and Truppenübungsplatz  Wildflecken. It was disbanded in May 1944 after suffering heavy losses on the Eastern Front. The remnants formed Divisions-Gruppe 82 which was assigned to the 254. Infanterie-Divison.


Area of operations

Germany (Dec 1939 - May 1940)
France (May 1940 - Dec 1940)
Germany (Dec 1940 - Jan 1941)
Netherlands (Jan 1941 - Dec 1942)
Eastern front, southern sector (May 1942 - July 1943)
Eastern front, central sector (July 1943 - Oct 1943)
Eastern front, southern sector (Oct 1943 - May 1944)

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81. Infanterie-Division

The 81. Infanterie-Division was formed December 1939 at Truppenübungsplatz Neuhammer as part of the 6th welle (wave) and saw action at Staraja Russa, Demjansk, Newel and ended the war in Kurland (Courland).

Area of operations

Germany (Dec 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - Dec 1941) 
Eastern front, central sector (Dec 1941 - Feb 1944) 
Eastern front, northern sector (Feb 1944 - Oct 1944) 
Kurland pocket (Oct 1944 - May 1945) 


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80. Infanterie-Division

The 80. Infanterie-Division was formed on 5 May 1943 but was used to form the staff of 334. Infanterie-Division in June.

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79. Infanterie-Division

The 79. Infanterie-Division was formed in August 1939 from elements of 33. Infanterie-Division, 34. Infanterie-Division and 36. Infanterie-Division. It was destroyed at Stalingrad in January 1943.

It was reformed in March 1943 and was destroyed near Iași (Jassy) in August 1944.


Area of operations

Germany (Sep 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - June 1941) 
Eastern front, southern sector (June 1941 - Oct 1942) 
Stalingrad (Oct 1942 - Jan 1943) 
Eastern front, southern sector (Mar 1943 - Aug 1944) 
Romania (Aug 1944) 


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78. Infanterie-Division

The 78. Infanterie-Division was formed in August 1939 from elements of 5. Infanterie-Division, 25. Infanterie-Division and 35. Infanterie-Division. It was redesignated 78. Sturm-Division on 30 December 1942.

Area of operations

Germany (Sep 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - June 1941) 
Eastern front, central sector (June 1941 - Dec 1942) 

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77. Infanterie-Division

The 77. Infanterie-Division was formed on 15 January 1944 in France as part of the 25. Welle (wave) from the division staff of the disbanded 355. Infanterie-Division and personnel of the disbanded 364. Infanterie-Division. It was destroyed at St. Malo, France on 15 August 1944.

Area of operations

France (Feb 1944 - Aug 1944) 


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76. Infanterie-Division

The 76. Infanterie-Division was formed in August 1939 as part of the 2. Welle (wave). It was destroyed at Stalingrad in January 1943.

It was reformed Feb 1943. The division absorbed the remnants of Jäger-Regiment 9 (L) of the disbanded 5. Feld-Division (L) in May 1944. It suffered heavy losses at Iaşi, Romania and was withdrawn from the front for refitting in September 1944. The division surrendered May 1945 to the Red Army at Deutsch Brod.


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75. Infanterie-Division

The 75. Infanterie-Division was formed 26 August 1939 as part of the 2nd welle (wave). It was destroyed in April 1945 near Ostrau (Ostrava).

Area of operations

West Wall (Sep 1939 - May 1940)
France (May 1940 - June 1941)
Eastern front, southern sector (June 1941 - Dec 1944)
Eastern front, central sector (Dec 1944 - Jan 1945)
Poland & Czechoslovakia (Jan 1945 - May 1945)

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73. Infanterie-Division

The 73. Infanterie-Division was formed on 26 August 1939 as part of the 2. Welle (wave). It took part in the invasions of Poland, the Low Countries, France and Greece before invading the Soviet Union from its jump off point at Iaşi, Romania.
It fought in the southern sector of the Eastern Front, taking part in actions at Nikolaev, Cherson, Sevastopol and the Kuban bridgehead among others. It was withdrawn from the fighting near Melitopol after suffering heavy losses. Moved to the Crimea, the division surrendered to the Red Army in Sevastopol in May 1944.

The division was reformed on 16 June 1944 in Hungary and took part in the fighting on the Vistula at Warsaw/Praga where it was destroyed in September. (Heeresgruppe Mitte requested the division be disbanded because of its failure to hold the Praga bridgehead on the east bank of the Vistula, a proposal that was ultimately rejected.) After reforming, the division fought at Danzig where it was destroyed again.
The division staff was evacuated from Danzig but was lost with the steamer Goya when it was sunk by the Soviet submarine L 3 on 16 Apr 1945.

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72. Infanterie-Division

The 72. Infanterie-Division was formed on 19 September 1939 from Grenz-Division Trier. After breaking out of the Cherkassy pocket in February 1944, it was withdrawn to Poland. It was refitted there in March 1944 as part of the 24. Welle from Schatten-Division Generalgouvernement. Reformed again after suffering heavy losses at the Baronow bridgehead on the Vistula, the division surrendered to the Red Army in May 1945 in the Erzgebirge region of Czechoslovakia.


Area of operations

West wall (Sep 1939 - May 1940) 
France (May 1940 - Apr 1941) 
Balkans (Apr 1941 - July 1941) 
Eastern front, southern sector (July 1941 - Sep 1942) 
Eastern front, central sector (Sep 1942 - Dec 1943) 
Eastern front, southern sector (Dec 1943 - Mar 1944) 
Poland (June 1944 - Mar 1945) 
Czechoslovakia (Mar 1945 - May 1945) 

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71. Infanterie-Division

The 71. Infanterie-Division was formed on 26 August 1939 as part of the 2. Welle (wave). It was destroyed at Stalingrad in Janury 1943.

It was reformed 17 Februry 1943 in Denmark. Transferred to Italy in September 1943, the division was virtually destroyed at Monte Cassino in May 1944. The remnants of the division surrendered to the British at St. Veit, Austria in May 1945.


Area of operations

West wall (Sep 1939 - May 1940)
France (May 1940 - June 1941)
Eastern front, southern sector (June 1941 - Oct 1941)
France (Oct 1941 - Apr 1942)
Eastern front, southern sector (Apr 1942 - Oct 1942)
Stalingrad (Oct 1942 - Jan 1943)
Denmark (Mar 1943 - Aug 1943)
Slovenia (Aug 1943 - Sep 1943)
Italy (Sep 1943 - Dec 1944)
Hungary & Austria (Dec 1944 - May 1945)

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70. Infanterie-Division

The 70. Infanterie-Division was largely made up of soldiers with stomach problems who required a special diet, hence the nickname "White Bread Division", around a cadre from 165. Reserve Division.
It was stationed on Walcheren Island, the Netherlands, and was attacked by the 1st Canadian Army in November 1944. The soldiers of the division fought surprisingly well in the Battle of the Scheldt but after nine days of fighting they were forced to surrender.

Area of operations

Netherlands (May 1944 - Nov 1944)

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