GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 65. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (Part V) (Divisions 58 - 96) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1970 www.maparchive.ru This finding aid has been prepared by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody. The microfilm described in this guide may be consulted at the National Archives, where it is identified as Microfilm Publication T315. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should write to the Publications Sales Branch, NARS, GSA, Washington, DC 20408. Some of the papers reproduced on the microfilm referred to in this and other guides of the same series may have been of private origin. The fact of their seizure is not believed to divest their original owners of any literary property rights in them. Anyone, therefore, who publishes them in whole or in part without permission of their authors may be held liable for infringement of such literary property rights. www.maparchive.ru GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 65. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (Part V) (Divisions 58 - 96) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1970 www.maparchive.ru www.maparchive.ru R E A The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va. North African campaign from 1941 to 1943, the campaign in constitute a series of finding aids describing National Archives Italy from 1943 to 1945, occupation duty in Norway from 1940 microfilm that reproduces seized records of German central, re- to 1942, and occupation and coastal security duty in France, gional, and local government agencies, and of military commands Belgium, and the Netherlands from 1940 to 1943. and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, its formation, affili- ated associations, and supervised organizations. The records The provenance to which each record item is attributed is the described in the Guides were created generally during the period unit headquarters that created it (i.e., kept it on file), al- from 1920 to"1945o though a large proportion of the items had in fact already been retired to depositories of the Heeresarchiv Potsdam. There The series was initiated by the Microfilming Project of the accession numbers were assigned and stamped or written on the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American His- covers in the order received, and the records were then cata- torical Association in cooperation with the National Archives loged by unit in the so-called "Potsdam Catalog." By the time and the Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA the records reached the United States, they were in rough ar- participation in July 1963, the National Archives assumed rangement by unit. The National Archi\res has retained this sole responsibility for the reproduction of records and the system inherited from its various .American predecessor organi- preparation of Guides. zations, taking advantage of the circumstance that the original Potsdam catalogs were acquired along with the seized field com- This Guide is one of many in the series describing the records mand records. The AHA and National Archives also followed this of the German Army field commands which have been arranged by arrangement in their joint and separate microfilm projects; how- unit and filmed in discrete microcopies according to their ever, some record items were filmed out of sequence because of military echelon as follows: Army Groups (Microfilm Publica- subsequent declassification or the discovery of previously mis- tion T311), Armies (T312), Panzer Armies (T313), Corps (T314), laid or temporarily unavailable material, which accounts for the Divisions (T315), and Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and occasional break in continuity of roll numbers in the Guides. Others (T501). Record items not yet retired to the Heeresarchiv depositories at the time of capture were assigned accession numbers above Guide No. 65 (designated Part V of Guides to German Army divi- 75,000 by American custodians in extension of the original sions—Parts I-IV being Guides 41, 45, 63, and 64) describes Potsdam numbering scheme. the contents of 211 rolls of Microfilm Publication T315 repro- ducing records of divisions numbered 58 through 96. Future Considerable information on the fate of Germany's military Guides will describe records of divisions numbered above 96. archives during World War II, including documentation of efforts The records in Guide 65 include material on the campaign in to reconstruct records destroyed in several wartime fires, may Poland in 1939, the campaign in Norway in 1940, the western be found in the files of the Chef des Heeresarchivs, OKH, filmed campaigns in 1940 and 1944-45, the Balkan campaign in 1941, as Microfilm Publication T78, Rolls 1-38 and described in Guide the campaign against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945, the No. 12 of the series. 111 www.maparchive.ru Although the records of these divisions have been filmed selec- descriptive entries for the Guide, but considerable revision tively, the war journals (Kriegstagebucher) and activity reports was undertaken because so many of these card descriptions (Tatigkeitsberichte) and their annexes (Anlagen) of the Opera- were prepared hastily to maintain pace with filming and tions (la) and Intelligence (ic) staff sections,, wherever avail- restitution schedules. able, were filmed in entirety, A few records of the Supply, Ad- ministrative, Medical, Personnels end Judge Advocate staff sec- The term "Roll" in the Guide refers to the sequence of the film; tions assigned to division headquarters were filmed for those "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the fold- units whose operations and intelligence files were incomplete er; "Item No." is the identification symbol on the original folder. or missing. Map annexes (Kartenanlagen) consisting exclusively The "Item" provides (a) the abbreviation of the staff section of large maps difficult to put on microfilm were generally that originated the document, (b) the title appearing on the omitted; maps interspersed among and integrated with the tex- folder cover, and (c) additional information providing a general tual records were filmed in several overlapping sections, which, description of the contents. The inclusive dates of the file along with the loss of color markings, detracts considerably item are given under a "Date" column. from their value and ease of use. The original records, filmed and unfilmed, have been returned to A unit history precedes the file item listing for each division. the Federal Republic of Germany for deposit in the Bundesarchiv- These histories are a revised and expanded form of the shorter Militararchiv in Freiburg. The master negatives of Microfilm unit histories filmed at the beginning of every roll reproduc- Publication T315 have been deposited with the Publications Sales ing the records of each unit. The unit histories are based on Branch, National Archives, Washington, D.G. 20/^08, from which information found in the records, in the Potsdam catalogs, and copies of specific rolls may be purchased. Reference copies on contemporary German daily situation maps, supplementing or may be consulted in the microfilm reading room of the National correcting the brief histories given in the Order of Battle _of Archives. For suggestions for citing microfilm see page H2. the. German Army, War Department, Washington, March 194-5. A data card describing each filmed record item has been filmed The descriptions in this Guide i^ere prepared by Anton F. Grassl, immediately preceding the folder it describes, and the cards George Wagner, and Petronilla Hawes under the supervision of for all folders on one roll of film are again filmed as a Donald E. Spencer, finding aid at the beginning of that roll. The information contained on these cards was used as a reference in compiling ROBERT WOLFE Specialist for Modern European History www.maparchive.ru TABLE OF CONTENTS Page *t>*«.e.*...»**e*.eo».,. ill German Military Symbols and Abbreviations vii Organization of German Army Staffs x Records; 58e Infanterie-Division (58th Infantry Division) c * ........ 1 60. Infanterie-Division (60th Infantry Division) e 7 61. Infanterie-Di vision (6lst Infantry Division) e 11 62. Infanterie-Di vision (62d Infantry Division) , 18 65 * Infanterie-Division (65th Infantry Division) .......... 23 68n Infanterie-Division (68th Infantry Division) .......... 25 69. Infantarie-Division (69th Infantry Division) „ 31 72. Infanterie-Division (72d Infantry Division) 34 73. Infanterie-Division (73d Infantry Division) . 42 75. Infanterie-Division (75th Infantry Division) .......... 4-7 76. Infanterie-Division (76th Infantry Division) .......... 54- 78. Sturm-Division (78th Assault Division) ......_...._.. 59 79. Infanterie-Division (Volksgrenadier) (79th Infantry Division /Volks Grenadier/) . 65 81. Infanterie~Division (81st Infantry Division) . 75 82, Infanterie-Division (82d Infantry Division) 8/4 83,, Infanterie-Division (83d Infantry Division) ........... 90 86a Infanterie-Division (86th Infantry Division) .......... 95 87. Infanterie-Division (87th Infantry Division) .......... 99 BB, Infanterie-Division (88th Infantry Division) ....,.,... 108 90. Panzergrenadier-Division (90th Panzer Grenadier Division) 113 93. Infanterie-Division (93d Infantry Division) ........... 117 94-. Infanterie-Division (94-th Infantry Division)