357th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 357th Infantry Division was a German infantry division during World War II . The division was set up on November 7, 1943 at the military training area in the center near Radom in the General Government of Poland . The unit was deployed on the Eastern Front against the Red Army (combat areas in Western Ukraine , Hungary , Slovakia and later in the South Moravian region ). End of August 1944 was followed by refresher by Infantry Division Wroclaw . On 8 May 1945, the unit in the room showed German Brod in Bohemia of the Red Army .

Personalities

• Roman Jäger , National Socialist lawyer and member of the National Socialist Reichstag since 1938, was an officer in the Grenadier Regiment 946.

literature

• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (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 .
• Tessin, Georg (1974). Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Ninth volume. The land forces 281-370. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück. ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 .