339th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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339th Infantry Division |
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.svg) Troop registration |
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| active | December 15, 1940 to November 1943 |
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.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation room | Thuringia |
| Second World War | Battle of Rzhev |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 339th Infantry Division (339th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
The 339th Infantry Division was set up in December 1940 as a grounded infantry division of the 14th wave of deployment in Defense District IX in Thuringia . In May 1941 it was moved to the demarcation line on the border with the Soviet Union . During Operation Barbarossa the 339th Infantry Division was active in August 1941 in the rear area of Army Group Center near Vitebsk and Bobruisk in Belarus .
In January 1942, the IR 693 fought in the Battle of Rzhev , the rest of the division from January 1942 to January 1943 with the 2nd Panzer Army near Bryansk . For the German summer offensive in 1942 she was the XXXXVII. Army Corps (motorized) subordinated to the 2nd Panzer Army. On November 2, 1943, the 4th Panzer Army was reorganized, in which the 339th ID was merged with the remains of other divisions to form Corps Department "C" and Division Group 339.
War crimes
In the autumn of 1941, the 339th Infantry Division under the command of General Max von Schenckendorff in the rear area of Army Group Center had the task of fighting partisans . In October 1941, on the orders of the battalion commander Major Alfred Commichau, soldiers from Infantry Regiment 691 shot and killed Jewish civilians near Krutscha near Smolensk . Three perpetrators, including company commander Friedrich Nöll and Sergeant Emil Zimber, were convicted of manslaughter by the Darmstadt Regional Court on April 8, 1954 after the war . At the new trial in March 1956, the court found some mitigating circumstances for the two defendants. One cannot know whether and how many of the Jews in Krucha might have escaped, and one can only assume with certainty that 15 people were killed. However, there were no children among these dead, which is why it cannot be ruled out that no children were shot at all. Therefore the prison sentences were reduced - three years for Nöll, two years for Zimber.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| December 15, 1940 to January 1942 | Lieutenant General | Georg Hewelke |
| January to December 8, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Kurt Pflugradt |
| December 8, 1942 to October 1, 1943 | Major general | Martin Ronicke |
| October 1, 1943 until unknown | Major general | Wolfgang Lange |
structure
- 691st Infantry Regiment
- 692nd Infantry Regiment
- 693rd Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Division 339
- Engineer Battalion 339
- Field Replacement Battalion 339
- Panzerjäger detachment 339
- Divisional Battalion 339
- News Department 339
- Resupply Troops 339
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 9. The Land Forces 281-370 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1174-9 .
- Werner Haupt: The German infantry divisions . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2005, ISBN 3-89555-274-7 .
- CF Rüter, DW de Mildt: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (Nazi crimes on trial) , Vol. 44, De Gruyter Saur Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-24603-6 .
- LG Darmstadt, April 8, 1954 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicide crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XII, edited by Adelheid L Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs and CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1974, No. 398, pp. 369-385
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
Notes and individual references
- ↑ http://weltkrieg2.de/Geschichte/Kriegsgliederungen/Wehrmacht/Kriegsgliederung-24-Juni-1942.htm
- ↑ Commander of the Rear Army Area .
- ^ LG Darmstadt, March 10, 1956 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XIII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1975, No. 429, pp. 615–644 Subject matter of the proceedings: Shooting of the Jewish residents of Krutscha (near Smolensk) on the orders of the battalion commander ( memento of the original of January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
