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Skydiva
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Aside from the SS divisions as having names (Das Reich, Totenkopf, etc), I have found that a few wehrmacht divisions were also given names. These included Claustwitz, Holstein, Tatra, Juterborg.
Can anybody give me a full list of named wehrmacht divisions, and why these units were given names?.
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Sweety
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From 'Hitler's Legions' by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., the named Whermach and LW divisions were: (* late war nowhere full strength) Reserve Division 'Ba:rwalde' * Infantry Division 'Berlin' * Fu:hrer Begleit Division * Fu:hrer Grenadier Division * Reserve Division 'Pomerania' * Police Division 'Silesia' * (There was also the 'Hoch und Deutchmeister' title remaining on a numbered division that was from Austria) (130th) Panzer Lehr Division PzDiv 'Clausewitz' * PzDiv 'Grossdeutchland' ParPzDiv 'Hermann Go:ring' PzDiv 'Holstein' * PzDiv Mu:nchberg' * PzDiv 'Norway' * PzGrDiv 'Feldherrnhalle' * Brandenburg Division PaGrDiv 'Grossdeutchland' * PctPzGrDiv 'Hermann Go:ring' * PzGrDiv 'Kurmark' *
I hope this helps
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Attiyah Zahdeh
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Lovebug, I don't have a list for you but I do recall near the end of the war the Whermacht was using named identifiers for infantry and panzer 'divisions' and not the customary numbering scheme.
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