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	Brandenburgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The remainder of the division was sent to the Balkans, to engage in anti-Partisan operations.
		The Brandenburg Division became Infanterie-Division Brandenburg (mot), was equipped as a motorised infantry division and transferred to the Eastern front.
		The division was all but annihilated during the heavy fighting near Pillau, and while some survivors surrendered to the British in Schleswig-Holstein in May, many Brandenburgers, highly skilled in evading detection, simply disappeared.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brandenburger_Regiment (3239 words)

	Cybermodeler Online - ESCI 1/9 Panzer Grenadier Grossdeutschland
		The Division of Armored Grenadiers, know as “Grossdeutschland” is certainly the best known and most representative unit of the WWII German Army.
		The division continued to fight for the rest of the war with great courage in various sectors of the Russian front, until the spring of 1945.
		A Wehrmacht Obergerfreiter Panzer Grenadier of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 7th Panzer Division, with helmet and soft cap insignias, shoulder and collar insignia, iron cross ribbon, sleeve chevron, and a wound medal.
	www.cybermodeler.com /hobby/figures/esci/kit_esci_6001.shtml (1018 words)

	Grossdeutschland Campaign Pt. 1: The Verdun of 1940
		The Infanterie-Regiment Grossdeutschland (Greater Germany) was formed on 1 Oct 39 from the Wachregiment Berlin, II Bat.
		The 1st and 4th Battalions of I.R. Grossdeutschland have been assigned the task of attacking the village, currently occupied by scattered units of the 205th Inf.
		The 1st Battalion of I.R. Grossdeutschland was able to occupy Stonne by 0700 on the 15th.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/article/ah200600310c (606 words)

	Gefreiter Heinz Klostermeyer
		The division was in the Ukraine as part of Korps Raus, Army Detachment Kempf.
		As it was the only half-tracked battalion in the division, it was the only infantry formation able to keep pace with the division's armour across the snowy terrain.
		The division was then withdrawn to the Akhtyrka area for a well-earned rest and refit.
	home.clara.net /percy/heinzklostermeyer.htm (1052 words)

	Stug. IIIF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Grossdeutschland regiment was transferred to Yugoslavia in 1941 and then participated in Operation Barbarossa in June of the same year.
		Spare road wheels were mounted on the forward superstructure sides, the forward toolbox was usually relocated to the rear drivers side, and concrete fill sometimes supplemented the armour of the forward upper superstructure.
		Grossdeutschland vehicles of mid 1943 usually had irregular squiggles and lines of dark green sprayed softly over a coat of faded Dark Yellow.
	www.kitparade.com /features00/st3fGbg.html (2871 words)

	C:\Websites\GD for CM\crime.htm
		In fact, the Division's own archival material was used (in concert with that of two other, less famous, divisions) as the basis of at least two books devoted to the study of German "barbarism" in the Eastern Front campaigns.
		There is also a reference to the recruitment of civilian labour, and the operations officer of the GD Division is quoted in a letter to his wife in June 1942 as saying that 100 women were sent to Germany against their will.
		Certainly any soldier on the eastern front was guilty, for lack of a better word, of creating the conditions in which the einsatzgruppen and Police Battalions in the field were able to operate, and the slave labour and ultimately the Death Camps in Germany and the occupied territories were able to commit their crimes.
	www.deutschesoldaten.com /books/crime.htm (5665 words)

	Grossdeutschland in 1944
		Sister units to the Grossdeutschland Division, originally small guard detachments, would be reinforced, re-equipped, expanded, and expanded again during the year.
		On the 25th, the Division was transferred to East Prussia, near Gumbinnen.
		The GD Division proper continued desperate defensive battles for the remainder of October in the Memel bridgehead, fighting throughout the month of November.
	members.shaw.ca /grossdeutschland/russia4.htm (604 words)

	Grossdeutschland USA
		The story of how the "founding fathers" decided to form the Grossdeutschland Division impression is simple.
		After reading the history of both units the founders decided to do the Grossdeutschland impression for two reasons, number one, is that the divisional history of Grossdeutschland was amazing, and number two, the unit designation "GD" would be easily remembered by people within the hobby.
		As a group we strive to keep alive the memory of those men of the Grossdeutschland Division who loyally fulfilled their duty in accordance with Grossdeutschlands motto "Gott, Ehren, und Vaterland".
	www.grossdeutschland.com /30.htm (436 words)

	Panzergrenadier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Others, such as the Grossdeutschland Division, were built up over the course of the war by repeatedly augmenting the size of an elite regiment or battalion.
		divisions in both the Heer and Waffen SS were upgraded to Panzer divisions as the war progressed.
		The Panzergrenadier divisions were organized as combined arms formations, usually with six battalions of truck-mounted infantry organized into either two or three regiments, a battalion of tanks, and an ordinary division's complement of artillery, reconnaissance units, combat engineers, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, and so forth.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Panzergrenadier (609 words)

	GrossDeutschland - book about Elite Divisions in WWII
		The GrossDeutschland Division was the most famous division in the Third Reich during WWII.
		In 1942 it became a Motorized Infantry Division, in 1943 it became a Panzer Grenadier Division.
		The division repeated that "maneuver" twice...until the Grossdeutschland Division was dead !
	www.quikmaneuvers.com /grossdeutschland.html (506 words)

	GroÃdeutschland Division at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At this time, the division was equipped with a company of Tiger 1s, an unusual addition making GD the only Panzergrenadier division to have its own heavy tanks, and the only non-Waffen SS division at that time to have its own Tigers (they were normally deployed in independent heavy tank battalions).
		After the launch of Citadel, the division was heavily engaged in the fight to penetrate the southern flank of the salient.
		The division was virtually annihilated during the battles in the Memel bridgehead.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/g/gr/Grossdeutschland_Division.htm (3554 words)

	Battlefront - Producers of fine metal and resin miniatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By 14 February the Leibstandarte division moved from the outer to inner defences, fighting defensive battles in Kharkov’s factory district against the Soviet 15th Tank Corp, 160th Rifle and 48th Guards Rifle divisions.
		Grossdeutschland and the 168th division had been slowly withdrawing from Belgorod, unfortunately Grossdeutschland retreated south while the 169th went southwest spreading the forces defending Kharkov’s north.
		Grossdeutschland held the west, Das Reich the north, a reinforced Panzergrenadier regiment of Leibstandarte held the east and the 320th Division holding the southeast.
	www.battlefront.co.nz /article.asp?articleid=263 (1220 words)

	Heer Units Links
		Panzer Division was one of the first of the newly created armoured divisions in the mid-30's.
		The 3rd Panzergrenadier Division is a Living History Group located in the Northeast United States established to promote the study of W.W.II history for military historians and collectors interested in gaining insight on what it may have been like to be a German soldier of W.W.II.
		Inf.Div (USA, NJ) -- The 45th Infanterie Division is dedicated to the accurate re-creation of the WW2 combat infantry soldier serving in the German Army between 1939 and 1945.
	www.reenactor.net /ww2/axis/heer_main.html (4620 words)

	Tiger Tank Battalions during WWII
		This division was eventually destroyed in the defense of Budapest.
		Attached to Panzer Division Herrmann Goering, the 17 Tigers under the 2.Kompanie of the 504th attacked the American landing zone on 11 July 1943, but were neutralized by naval gunfire.
		Attached to the division were elements of the newly formed schwere SS Panzer Abteilung of the I.SS Panzer Korps with 27 Tigers that had been issued in July 1943.
	chsk.com /steppenwolf/tigers.htm (7164 words)

	The Forgotten Soldier: Fact or Fiction? (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Grossdeutschland as befitting its elite status had until its reorganization in July 1944 four battalions per regiment with a total of eighteen Kompanien or Abteilungen.
		Sajer recalls in his book that upon receipt of their cuff titles he and his comrades in arms were ordered to sew it onto their left sleeve a patent error since they should have been told to sew it onto their right sleeve.
		Perhaps even more persuasive testimony comes from a member of the vaunted Grossdeutschland Division itself Herr Helmuth Spaeter a former major who commanded the division's reconnaissance Abteilung during the war and served for a period as the head of the division's veterans' association.
	members.shaw.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /grossdeutschland/sajer.htm (8344 words)

	sajer2
		A major point of fact clears up this apparent problem- The truth is that the Waffen-SS wore their cuff titles on the left sleeve, and the majority of the army wore theirs on the right.
		There were two infantry regiments in the division, the Fusiliere and Grenadiere regiments, each consisting of only eight infantry companies-- 1 -4 in the Ist Bataillon, and 5-8 in the, 2d Bataillon.
		Sydnor's book is a factual history of the SS Division Totenkopf, not a novel, yet he appears to have fallen victim to the same trap others have with regard to The Forgotten Soldier.
	www.custermen.net /sajer/sajer2.htm (1719 words)

	Grossdeutschland USA
		Grossdeutschland is by far one of the oldest World War II reenactment units with 30 years of experience
		Once a year we are able to travel to Germany to meet the men who fought for their country.
		As a fighting unit Grossdeutschland was formed in 1939.
	www.grossdeutschland.com (246 words)

	11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
		After it's formation in Germany, the division was attached to SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner's III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps and was moved to occupied Croatia for training and to complete it's formation.
		On February 16th, the division was ordered on the offensive as a part of Operation Sonnenwende, the operation to destroy a Soviet salient and to relieve the troops besieged in the town of Arnswalde.
		During this time, the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne, a 300 man unit of French SS volunteers and the SpanishVolunteer Company of the SS No.101, a company of Spanish SS men were attached to the division.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/11thdivnordland.html (1726 words)

	Hyazinth von Strachwitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On one occasion he was the first to cross a river bridge, attacking a column of hundreds of Russian trucks and guns.
		Having only a handful of tanks, the Grossdeutschland division needed capable men like von Strachwitz to lead their tanks against a numerically superior Russian Army.
		Von Strachwitz commanded the 1st Panzer Division and later as armor commander he was sent to Army Group North.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/Panzer/strachwitz.html (465 words)

	sajer3
		There was no such "battalion," but there was a 17th Abteilung (Detachment) in each of that division's two infantry regiments.(9) The term Abteilung describes a unit which may range in size from company to regimental strength, but it was usually used for a unit of approximately battalion size or smaller.
		This point was also made to me in correspondence with the present head of the Grossdeutschland Division's veterans' association, Major (Retired) Helmuth Spaeter.(l6) This accusation alone, as far as Kennedy is concerned, would seem to be enough to label the entire book as fiction.
		Sajer recalls in his book hat, upon receipt of their cuff titles, he and his comrades in arms were ordered to sew it onto their left sleeve, a patent error, since they should have been told to sew it onto their right sleeve.
	www.custermen.net /sajer/sajer3.htm (5215 words)

	The Forgotten Soldier
		Sajer claims more convincingly that on the eve of the Kursk offensive he was assigned as a replacement to the 5th Company of one of the division's infantry regiments which certainly did exist.10 Kennedy fails to mention this in his analysis.
		This point was also made to me in correspondence with the present head of the Grossdeutschland Division's veterans' association Major (Retired) Helmuth Spaeter.16 This accusation alone as far as Kennedy is concerned would seem to be enough to label the entire book as fiction.
		Nash's correspondence with Grossdeutschland veteran Hans-Joachim Schafmeister-Berckholtz is a classic case of not seeing the forest for the trees.
	www.warfarehq.com /articles/wargame_articles/forgotten_soldier.shtml (7888 words)

	Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany
		On 28 March 1945, 2 days before the surrender of Heidelberg, Staff Sergeant Campbell led a patrol across the Rhine River near Mannheim and was killed while covering the withdrawal of his patrol as it returned to the west bank with valuable information.
		The Kaserne predates the division, which was not formed until May 1942 when it was activated as an armored infantry (Panzer- Grenadier) division and later reorganized and redesignated an armored (Panzer) division.
		Neither the division nor any of its subordinate units were ever stationed in Heidelberg, nor was the 110th Infantry Regiment ever assigned or attached to the Großdeutschland-Division.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/campbell-bks.htm (1395 words)

	sdkfz251 OT-810
		A wwII reenactment unit, Grossdeutschland, also uses a German halftrack, a sdkfz251.
		elite Heer unit, Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division served in Latvia, Lithuania, East Prussia and Rumania.
		Memel Lithuania, Klapadia, Memel, batle of Memel, Grossdeutschland division Panzer Grenadiers,
	www.sdkfz251.com (1068 words)

	Battle of the Bulge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The St. Vith salient, where the 7th Armored Division was to remain on the defensive during the XVIII Airborne advance, was confronted with growing German forces on three sides.
		Even though the new armored outfit did not prove to be the famous division but Remer's much weaker panzer brigade, the report was of particular concern.
		For the first time the two divisions holding the salient had some clear picture of the dispositions and plans of neighboring friendly units.
	ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/books/bulge2/0401.cfm (473 words)

	Waffen SS Two
		Hasso Von Manteuffel, C,O, The 7th Panzer Division was one of the outstanding armored units of WWII, and became famous during the Battle of France in 1940.
		As the keystone of the Deutsches Afrika Korps, this division was involved in the hardest battles in that theater of operations until it was finally driven out of the continent of Africa in May 1943.
		This volume of the two-part history covers the formation of the division in 1939, its employment during the so-called "Phony War" prior to the campaign in France in 1940, its participation in the later stages of that campaign and, finally, its commitment in the East in the northern theater of operations.
	www.aberdeenbookstore.com /waffen_ss_two.htm (14949 words)

	Novotny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Later he would serve in one of the most elite divisions of the German Army during WWII, Panzer-Grenadier Division Grossdeutschland, receiving the Iron Cross, 2nd Class.
		Starting with action as a member of a hurriedly-armed labor detachment in the famous British naval and commando raid at St. Nazaire, France, in March 1942, he later joined the Großdeutschland Division in time to participate in some of the most well-known and most bloody battles of the war on the Eastern Front.
		During the Germans’ last great offensive in the Soviet Union in 1943, Novotny fought at Poltava and in the titanic clash of thousands of tanks at Kursk.
	www.skidmore.edu /uww/courses/worldwar/novotny.htm (404 words)

	2/Pz.Aufkl.Abt Grossdeutschland - UK based WW2 German Re-enactment Group (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We are a UK based Living History group portraying riflemen of the armoured reconnaissance battalion Grossdeutschland World War II.
		This is strictly a non political organisation and seeks only to portray the uniforms and equipment of the ordinary German soldier of world war two.
		Anyone attempting to use the group as an outlet to promote or further their own extreme poltical beliefs or ideals will not be tolerated.
	www.gdrecon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (101 words)

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