21st Paratrooper Division (Wehrmacht)

The 21st Paratrooper 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 the northern Netherlands . The formation and training of the unit was no longer completed before the end of the war. Parts of the division that had already been set up fell into Allied captivity .

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.