20th Paratrooper Division (Wehrmacht)

The 20th Fallschirmjäger Division was a major unit of the air force of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War . The division was set up on April 5, 1945 in Berlin-Tempelhof . The establishment was made by renaming the parachute hunter training and replacement division that had already been set up on December 31, 1944 in Berlin-Tempelhof . The formation of the unit was no longer completed. The already formed sub-units of the division were used in the Battle of Berlin and smashed here.

literature

• Werner Haupt : mountain troops, paratroopers and others. German special divisions 1935–1945. Dörfler, 2001, ISBN 3-89555-906-7 .
• Volkmar Kühn : German paratroopers in World War II. Verlagshaus Würzburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88189-635-1 , pp. 410-429.