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110th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

110th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Military unit


The 110th Infantry Division (German: 110. Infanterie-Division) of the German army (Wehrmacht) was formed in April 1940 in Lüneburg under the 11. Armee and was commanded by Generalleutnant Ernst Seifert. Until June 1941 and the commencement of Operation Barbarossa on the 22nd day of that month, it was stationed in Poland. It fought on the Eastern Front as part of Army Group Centre, VI Corps and had, by the end of the war, nine Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross holders, four of whom received their awards in November 1943.[citation needed] The division was destroyed by Soviet forces in July 1944. The division itself consisted of three infantry regiments and an artillery regiment.[1]

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