267th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 267th Infantry Division was a division of the Wehrmacht in World War II.

Division history

The 267th Infantry Division was set up on 26 August 1939 as a division of the fourth wave formation in Military District XI in Hanover. In the same year, the division was transferred to the Eifel, where it remained until the spring of 1940. While the Western campaign, the division marched through Belgium in May 1940 and remained until May 1941, the Channel coast.

As of June, the 267th Infantry Division was involved in the attack on the Soviet Union and marched with the Army Group Centre on Pinsk, Sluzk, over the Berezina River to the Dnieper. In Roslawl and the Dessna she was involved in bigger fights. In the winter of 1941 it belonged to the German attack formation during Operation Typhoon against Moscow. They belonged to the Panzer Group 4

At the Moscow River, the division moved into winter mode and suffered significant losses. Due to the increasing pressure of the Red Army division to the runway Roslavl - Juchnow was published by Spas- Demensk and should keep in the spring of 1943, the local "Buffalo " position. In the summer of 1943, the retreat began, first to the south in the Bryansk Region, then west to Mogilev region in present-day Belarus, where the division remained until 1944 and was destroyed in July in the boiler of Minsk. Officially, it was dissolved on August 3, 1944.

Structure

Origin of the regiments:

• Infantry Regiment 467: Zerbst, Blankenburg and Halberstadt
• Infantry Regiment 487: Hildesheim, mountains and Hameln
• Infantry Regiment 497: Braunschweig, Osterode and Bergen ( later Göttingen)