325th Security Division (Wehrmacht)
The 325th Security Division (also Wach Paris ) was a German infantry division during World War II .
Division history
The division was set up on August 31, 1942 in the Paris area in France with the task of controlling all defense and security units in the French capital. Your commander was in personal union at the same time commander of Greater Paris and division commander. It was the only security division that was used on the western front .
In August 1944, the association was placed under the 1st Army to defend Paris . At that time, the association consisted of approx. 27,000 soldiers, mostly inexperienced in combat. Hitler had given the division the order to destroy the city, the then city commander Dietrich von Choltitz and also the division commander opposed the order. When Paris was conquered, most of the members of the division escaped. Because the division had lost its mission, these were distributed to other units and formally ceased to exist from mid-December 1944. After the withdrawal from France, the unit was finally disbanded on January 8, 1945.
The unit's commander was Major General Walter Brehmer and, from May 1943, formally until Wilhelm von Boineburg-Lengsfeld was dissolved .
structure
1943
- Security Regiment 1
- Security Regiment 5
- Security Regiment 6
- Security Regiment 190
- State Rifle Battalion 425
- State Rifle Battalion 541
- State Rifle Battalion 620
- 325th Artillery Regiment
- Fusilier Company 325
- Panzerjäger Company 325
- Engineer Company 325
- News Company 325
- Divisional Supply Troops 325
1944
- Security Regiment 1
- Security Regiment 5
- Security Regiment 6
- Security Regiment 190
- Transport escort regiment Paris
literature
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). 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. P. 28 + 29 ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
- Steven Zaloga Liberation of Paris 1944 - Patton's race for the Seine , Osprey, Oxford 2008, p. 26, ISBN 978-1-84603-246-2 .
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.
credentials
- ^ Steven J. Zaloga: Liberation of Paris 1944: Patton's race for the Seine . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84603-842-6 , pp. 28 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
