23rd Panzer Division (Germany)
The 23rd Panzer Division was established on the 14th of March 1942 in France. It was built around the 101 Panzer-Brigade and two infantry regiments. The units worked with "booty tanks".
In April the division went to the eastern front near Kharkov. It stayed on this front for the rest of the war and surrendered on the 8th of May 1945. The division was interned at Tamsweg Mauterndorf.
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