132nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 132nd Infantry Division was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.

Division history

Areas of application:

  • Germany: October 1940 to April 1941
  • Balkan campaign: From April to May 1941
  • Eastern Front, Army Group South: June 1941 to September 1942
  • Eastern Front, Army Group North: October 1942 to October 1944
  • Kurland -Kessel: October 1944 to May 1945

The 132nd Infantry Division was established on October 5, 1940 in Landshut, Military District VII, as a division of the 11 -up shaft. The staff was to share from the 263rd and 268th Infantry Division provided. The first war deployment of the 132nd Infantry Division was held in the Balkan campaign.

In June 1941 she took part of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in part. With the Army Group South, they marched from Lviv on Ostrog and Zhitomir to Kiev. In November 1941, she operated in the Crimea and was one of the attack associations that should conquer Sevastopol. Together with the LIV. Army Corps, she reached from the north of the mountain slopes of the valley Belbek the port city of Sevastopol and met with fierce resistance, the compacted in the defense belts around the city. In December 1941, the battles for the Kamyschly Gorge and the amount of concentrated storm battalions 192 and pioneers of the 132nd Infantry Division reached in the first days of the fighting only a territorial gain of six kilometers. On 30 March 1942, the division was still considered suitable for limited attack roles. At this time had an average infantry company nor a grave strength ( combat strength ) of 60-70 man.

On May 7, 1942, the 132nd Infantry Division began an offensive with artillery attacks and landings in assault boats against the 44th Soviet army east of Feodosiya on the heavily fortified isthmus of Parpach (today Prymors'kyi ). In June 1942, the final assault on Sevastopol was undertaken, with the 132nd Infantry Division along with the LIV. Army Corps was the main subject. In the course of the fighting the 132nd Infantry Division suffered such high losses, so they had to be taken completely out of the fight. In September 1942, the 132nd Infantry Division was recalled from the Crimea and the army group subordinated North. There they laid siege in the 18th Army Leningrad. In March 1943, she participated in the third Ladoga battle part. The 132nd, 96th and 61st Infantry Division fought off the Soviet attacks in lossy forest fighting.

During the battles around Krasny Bor fell 11,000 Red Army soldiers, a total of Army Group North died, according to estimates in the peat bog of Sinyavino and the forests of Kolpino and Krasny Bor 270,000 Soviet soldiers. In 1945, the division among the Kurland kettle.

People

Awards

A total of 14 members of the 132nd Infantry were awarded the Knight's Cross and 76 with the German Cross in Gold.

Structure

  • Infantry Regiment 436
  • Infantry Regiment 437
  • Infantry Regiment 438
  • Artillery Regiment 132
  • Engineer Battalion 132
  • Tank Destroyer Division 132
  • Reconnaissance Battalion 132
  • News department 132
  • Supply troops
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