8th Paratrooper Division (Wehrmacht)

The 8th Parachute Division was a major unit of the Air Force of the German Wehrmacht during World War II . The division was set up on September 24, 1944 in Nijmegen in the Netherlands . The unit was deployed on the Western Front in the Netherlands and Northern Germany . During the retreat in the direction of Schleswig , the division in the area north of Hamburg was taken prisoner by the British on May 5, 1945 .

literature

• Werner Haupt : mountain troops, paratroopers and others. German special divisions 1935–1945. Dörfler, 2001, ISBN 3-89555-906-7 .
• Volkmar Kühn : German paratroopers in World War II. Verlagshaus Würzburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88189-635-1 , pp. 410-429.