246th Volksgrenadier Division

Field Marshal General Model visits the advanced command post of the 246th VGD deployed in and around Aachen on October 9, 1944, in the background the commander of Colonel Gerhard Wilck's division can be seen giving a Hitler salute

The 246th Volksgrenadier Division (short: 246th VGD ) was a German infantry division in World War II . The division was set up on September 15, 1944 at the Milowitz military training area northeast of Prague in Bohemia by renaming the 565th Volksgrenadier Division . Then the division was used in the Ardennes offensive. On May 8, 1945, the 18th Volksgrenadier Division surrendered near Eberbach .

literature

• Samuel W. Mitcham (2007a). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII . PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007b). Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders . Mechanicsburg, PA, United States: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 .

Web links

• 200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.