Shadow division

In the Second World War, decimated infantry divisions were reinforced again by means of shadow divisions .

These divisions were often trained "in the shadow" of a division and only had incomplete equipment. As a rule, they were named after the military training areas on which they were set up.

As soon as the shadow division had to be called in to refresh , it took over the name of the re-established infantry division.

Some of these shadow divisions were deployed in the deployment waves of World War II.

Individual evidence

^ The Handbook of the German Infantry 1939–1945 , Verlag Dörfler, October 2001
↑ Battle of the Mountain Hunters for the Western Alps and the Semmering , Leopold Stocker Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7020-0521-8 , page 140
^ Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies Symposium: The Allentsteig military training area: Region, development, use and effects: the lectures and discussions of the twelfth symposium of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, Allentsteig, 1.-4. July 1991 . Self-published by the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, 1991, ISBN 978-3-85006-046-2 , p. 242 ( google.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).
^ Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945: Wehrkreise XVII, XVIII, XX, XXI and bes areas East and Southeast . Mittler, S. u. a. 235 ( google.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).

[1] The Handbook of the German Infantry 1939–1945 , Verlag Dörfler, October 2001

[2] Battle of the Mountain Hunters for the Western Alps and the Semmering , Leopold Stocker Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7020-0521-8 , page 140

[3] Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies Symposium: The Allentsteig military training area: Region, development, use and effects: the lectures and discussions of the twelfth symposium of the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, Allentsteig, 1.-4. July 1991 . Self-published by the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, 1991, ISBN 978-3-85006-046-2 , p. 242 ( google.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).

[4] Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945: Wehrkreise XVII, XVIII, XX, XXI and bes areas East and Southeast . Mittler, S. u. a. 235 ( google.de [accessed October 31, 2018]).