List Of German Divisions In World War II
This article lists divisions of the Wehrmacht (German armed forces), including the Heer, Luftwaffe, and Kriegsmarine, active during World War II.
Upgrades and reorganizations are shown only to identify the variant names for what is notionally a single unit; other upgrades and reorganizations are deferred to the individual articles. Due to the scope of this list pre-war changes are not shown, nor are upgrades from units smaller than a division. Most of these divisions trained in Berlin which is also where new military technology was kept and tested.
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