HistoryGeek2019 wrote: ↑13 Nov 2019 05:17
I can't imagine what it must have been like being in one of those occupation divisions in France, and being told in August/September, "You're being deployed to the Russian Front."
How odd.
46. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. In June it was "at the disposal of" (zur Verfügung von) 2. Armee and conducting security operations in Yugoslavia. It was placed at the disposal of OKH in July and moved to Rumania and assigned to 11. Armee on the Pruth later in the month.
73. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. On 9 June it was placed at the disposal of 11. Armee and conducting security operations in Strumica in northern Macedonia. It was assigned to LIV. AK of 11. Armee on 21 July.
164. ID was part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was on occupation and security duties in Yugoslavia under XVIII AK until November, when it moved to Crete and reorganized as Festungs-Division Kreta.
183. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was assigned to LI. AK of 2. Armee and was on occupation and security duties in Yugoslavia. It was placed at the disposal of OKH and moved to Poland in July as HG-S reserve, but remained in reserve successively for HG-M and then HG-N until October when it was assigned to IX. AK of 4. Armee and HG-M at Vyazma.
294. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was assigned to Höh. Kdo. LXV. of 2. Armee and was on occupation and security duties in Yugoslavia. It and 2. Armee moved to Russia as part of OKH reserve on 25 June and on 6 July it was assigned to LI. AK of HG-S, then to Korück 585 on 10 July and then bounced between various commands, all the time conducting rear-area security until it was committed to the front, assigned to XVII. AK of 6. Armee, HG-S on 27 September.
704. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was organized on 15 April 1941 as a security and occupation division, as were all the divisions of the 15. Welle. It was placed at the disposal of 2. Armee in Yugoslavia in May and then 12. Armee in Jully while it completed its organization and training, first in Proboj in southwestern Serbia, then Valjevo in western Serbia, and finally Belgrade in November, all the time on security and occupation duties. It remained in Serbia until 1 April 1943 when it was reorganized as the 104. Jäger-Division.
714, ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was organized as a 15. Welle division 1 May 1941 in Prague under BdE and assigned to XI. AK of 2. Armee and remained on occupation and security duties in Serbia and Croatia until 1 April 1943 when it was reorganized as the 114. Jäger-Division.
717. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was organized as a 15. Welle division 11 April 1941 in Bruck an der Leitha and Neusiedl am See (Lower Austria and Burgenland). On 22 June it was assigned to XI. AK of 2. Armee in Yugoslavia and remained in Yugoslavia and Croatia on occupation and security duties until 1 April 1943 when it was reorganized as the 117. Jäger-Division.
718. ID was not part of 12. Armee on 22 June 1941. It was organized as a 15. Welle division 26 March 1941 in Wehrkreis XVIII. On 30 May it was assigned to LI. AK of 2. Armee in Yugoslaviaand remained in Yugoslavia and Croatia on occupation and security duties until 1 April 1943 when it was reorganized as the 117. Jäger-Division.
Still, I guess one out of nine ain't bad?
OKH reserves as part of 2. Armee on 22 June? Some were, some weren't and it was a lot more complex than a simple schematic would indicate.
15. ID was in Dijon and began a rail movement east late in June that ended on 2 July when it was placed at the disposal of 2. Armee in OKH reserve.
52. ID was in eastern France and began a rail movement east that ended 25 June when it was assigned to LIII. AK of 2. Armee near Vilna.
79. ID was at KLagenfurt, moving there in early May from Langres as reserve for Balkan operations as part of 2. Armee. It moved to Poland at the disposal of OKH in July and in August was assigned to XVII. AK of 6. Armee west of Korosten.
86. ID was in France and began a rail movement east in June that ended 23 June when it was assigned to L. AK, which was in HG-N reserve, but not as part of 2. Armee. On 28 June it was assigned to XXIII. AK in OKH reserve and in July participated in the clean up operations in rear of HG-N.
95. ID was in France, but completed its movement east by 8 June when it was placed at the disposal of 16. Armee in Poland. It was never part of 2. Armee. It was committed with LI. AK of 6. Armee in Ukraine on 26 June, but does not appear to have entered combat until 25 July with XXIX. AK of 6. Armee near Kiev.
112. ID moved to Poland from Wehkreis XII on 1o June and was assigned to 2. Armee in OKH reserve near Brok on the Bug in Poland. It spent three weeks of marching forward, always in reserve, until it was finally engaged on 25 July near Gomel with XII. AK of 2. Armee.
113. ID was at Grafenwöhr where it was organized 10 December with French equipment. It moved east on 23 June at the disposal of 2. Armee. Between 7 and 15 July it marched forward, clearing up Soviet remnants, before entering the line west of Zhitomir under LI. AK before it was assigned 19 July to XXIX. AK of 6. Armee.
125. ID was assigned to IV. AK of 17. Armee HG-S on 22 June after being assigned from 2. Armee 10 June and moving from Yugoslavia to the Stiermark.
132. ID was assigned to Höh. Kdo. XXXIV from 2. Armee on 28 June and moved from Yugoslavia to Ukraine where it was assigned to IV. AK of 6. Armee on 25 July although it appears to have been engaged only in mop up operations until parts of the division were committed c. 1 August south of Kiev along the Dnieper.
197. ID was in Mannheim-Landau and on 21 June was entrained for Lochow Poland where it was placed at the disposal of 2. Armee on 23 June and finished its assembly on 26 June when it began marching from Bug toBerezina. It entered combat 1 July near Bialystock under XXXV. AK.
But I know, details, schmeetails, we don need no stinkin batches...