227th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 227th Infantry Division was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.
Division history
Use of rooms:
- Germany: September 1939 to May 1940
- Belgium: From May to July 1940
- France: July 1940 to October 1941
- Eastern front, northern sector: October 1941 to January 1945
- East Germany: From January to March 1945
The 227 ID was set up as a division of the third wave in August 1939 in Krefeld and served shortly thereafter with the 5th Army on border controls in the Eifel. In December 1939, she was placed under the Army Group B of the 6th Army. There was to provide for the Fall Gelb a laying to Gronau. From there, the unit began with the X Corps and the 18th Army to its offensive to Enschede and Deventer. Other achievements include the taking of Fort Pannerden and the breakthrough by Grebbelinie. After that Lys has been exceeded in Ghent, Zwolle and Amersfoort and shortly after it came to the capitulation of Holland. After the " Battle of France " (Case Red) took over the 227th ID tasks coastal monitoring in Normandy near Le Havre.
In October 1941, the 227th ID to the siege of Leningrad was transferred to the Eastern Front and the army group subordinated to the north. Your first combat operations on the Eastern Front were the XXVIII. Army Corps of Wolchowstellung instead. During the New Year 1941/42, they fought in the area around Schlüsselburg and 1942 at the Sinyavino Heights, the Chernaya and on the south shore of Lake Ladoga. The fighting dragged on even in 1943 in this area then, in January 1944, the pressure of the Red Army was so strong that the 227th ID along with the XLIII. Had to withdraw army corps rear positions behind the Narva. The shore section of Omuti could be defended until June 1944. Only then was the withdrawal from Estonia and northern Russia and the return march over Ostrow according to Pskov, where the 227th ID suffered high losses, so they had to retreat further over Marienburg, turning and Riga itself. During this phase was the 227th ID the LIV, L., II and XVI. Army Corps assumed. In Latvia arrived, the Division from October 1944 to January 1945 with the VL was. SS corps involved in the Kurlandschlachten. The utter destruction could escape the division by the removal of ships to West Prussia. There she was involved in defensive battles to Gotenhafen until it was finally destroyed in the second Battle of the Tuchel Heath. The survivors were distributed among other army units.
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Structure
Changes in the structure of the 227th ID 1939-1943