582nd People's Grenadier Division

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The 582nd Volksgrenadier Division was a major combat unit of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Mission history

The division was set up on August 25, 1944 in the 32nd wave of deployment at the Warthelager military training area near Posen in the Wartheland . Still in the formation phase, the division was renamed on September 17, 1944 into the not yet established 26th Volks-Grenadier-Division .

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . The Land Forces 131–200 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1173-0 .