573rd People's Grenadier Division

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573rd People's Grenadier Division

active August 25 to September 4, 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure see structure

The 573rd Volksgrenadier Division was a major combat unit of the German Wehrmacht in the process of being set up in World War II .

Mission history

The division was set up on August 25, 1944 in the 32nd wave of formation in Slovakia by Military District Command VIII ( Silesia ). Their permanent staff was made up of the remnants of the 708th Infantry Division , which had previously been broken up on the Western Front . Still in the formation phase, the division was renamed on September 4, 1944 in the not yet established 708th Volksgrenadier Division .

structure

  • Grenadier Regiment 1177: I.–II. battalion
  • Grenadier Regiment 1178: I.–II. battalion
  • Grenadier Regiment 1179: I.–II. battalion
  • Artillery Regiment 1573: I.–IV. Department
  • Division troops 1573

literature

  • Romuald Bergner: Troops and Garrisons in Silesia 1740-1945 , Podzun-Pallas-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7909-0318-3 , p. 100.