712e division of infantry (Germany)

The 712e division of infantry ( 712 Infantry-Division ) was a unit of the Wehrmacht created in 1941 and destroyed during the Bataille of Berlin in 1945.

History

Creation

the 712e division of infantry was created in April 1941 like unit " statique" and directed initially in the Northern - Is France, before being redirected and installed in Normandy as of January 1942.
With the Printemps 1942 it was definitively installed on the coast belgo-Dutchwoman, meadows of Zeebrugge, where it was to remain until the Automne 1944.

Operations

Under the command of generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann, the 712e ID was committed against the troops Britannique S which, at the time of the Opération Market Garden, tried to deliver the airborne troops Anglo-Saxon born encircled with Arnhem, and succeeded in slowing down them, taking an active share with the allied defeat.
A little later it was opposed to the 32nd Guards Tank Brigade Britannique (32e brigade armor-plated of the Garde) at the time of the engagements for OS, then took share with the passage of the Meuse, during the German withdrawal of the troops be, and fought in the area of Heusden during the Hiver 1944 - 1945.
In January 1945, the last elements of the 712e ID were sent on the Eastern face and took part, in April 1945, with the Bataille of Berlin, where they were destroyed.

Battle order

732 Infantry-Regiment
745 Infantry-Regiment
652 Artillery-Abteilung (= Battalion of Artillery)
712 Pioniere-Kompanie (= company of the Genius)
712 Narichtungs-Kompanie (= company of the Transmissions)

Chiefs of police

Bibliography and sources

Samuel Mitcham: Hitler' S Legions - Leo Cooper, London

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