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GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA, No. 63. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (Part HI) (Divisions 1-9 (Supplementary), 10 - 21) 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 be- lieved 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, VAe No. 63. Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (Part IH) (Divisions 1-9 (Supplementary), 10 - 21) The National Archives National .Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington; 1970 www.maparchive.ru www.maparchive.ru R E F A E The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va. from 1941 to 1943, the campaign against the Soviet Union from constitute a series of finding aids describing National Archives 1941 to 1945, operations in Finland in 1941 and 1942, the cam- microfilm that reproduces seized records of German central, re- paign in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and 1944, and the western cam- gional, and local government agencies, and of military commands paigns in .1940 and 1944-45. Also included are records covering and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, its formations, affili- the training of Rumanian Army units in 1940 and 1941 and occu- ated associations, and supervised organizations. The records pation duty in Poland in 1940 and 1941, in France and Belgium described in the Guides were created generally during the period from 1940 to 1943, and in the Aegean Islands and Greece in 1943 from 1920 to 1945. and 1944. The series was initiated by the Microfilming Project of the The provenance to which each record item is attributed is the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American His- unit headquarters that created it (i.e., kept it on file), al- torical Association in cooperation with the National Archives though a large proportion of the items had in fact already been and the Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA retired to depositories of the Heeresarchiv Potsdam. There participation in July 1963, the National Archives assumed accession numbers were assigned and stamped or written on the sole responsibility for the reproduction of records and the covers in the order received, and the records were then cata- preparation of Guides. loged by unit in the so-called "Potsdam Catalog." By the. time the records reached the United States, they were in rough ar- This Guide is one of many in the series describing the records rangement by unit. The National Archives has retained this of the German Army field commands which have been arranged by system inherited from its various American predecessor organi- unit and filmed in discrete microcopies according to their zations, taking advantage of the circumstance that the original military echelon as follows: Army Groups (Microcopy T-311), Potsdam catalogs were acquired along with the seized field.com- Armies (T-312), Panzer Armies (T-313), Corps (T-314-), Divisions mand records. The AHA and National Archives also followed'this (T-315), and Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and Others (T-501) arrangement in their joint and separate microfilm projects; how- ever, some record items were filmed out of sequence because of Guide No. 63 (designated Part III of Guides to records of German subsequent declassification or the discovery of previously mis- Army divisions—Parts I and II being Guides 4-1 and 45) describes laid or temporarily unavailable material, which accounts for the the contents of 254 rolls of Microcopy No. T-315 reproducing rec- occasional break in continuity of roll numbers in the Guides. ords of divisions numbered 10 through 21 and a few additional Record items not yet retired to the Heeresarchiv depositories records of divisions numbered 1 to 9 not available when Guides at the time of capture were assigned accession numbers above 41 and 45 were issued. Future Guides will describe records of 75,000 by American custodians in extension of the original divisions numbered above 21. The records in Guide 63 include Potsdam numbering scheme. material on the march into Austria and the Sudetenland in 193B, the march into Czechoslovakia in 1939, the campaign in Poland Considerable information on the fate of Germany's military in 1939, the campaign in Norway in 1940, the Balkan campaign in archives during World War II, including documentation of efforts 1941, the campaign in Crete in 1941, the North African campaign to reconstruct records destroyed in several wartime fires, may be iii www.maparchive.ru found in the files of the Chef des Heeresarchivs, OKH, filmed contained on these cards was used as a reference in compiling as Microcopy T-78, Rolls 1-38 and described in Guide No. 12 of descriptive entries for the Guide, but considerable revision the series. was undertaken because so many of these card descriptions were prepared hastily to maintain pace with filming and restitution Although the records of these divisions have been filmed selec- schedules. tively, the wr journals (Kriegstagebiicher) and activity reports (Tatigkeitsberichte) and their annexes (Anlagen) of the Operations The term "Roll" in the Guide refers to the sequence of the film; (la) and Intelligence (ic) staff sections, wherever available, "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the fold- were filmed in entirety. A few records of the Supply, Personnel, er; "Item No." is the identification symbol on the original folder. Medical, and Veterinary staff sections assigned to division head- The "Item" provides (a) the abbreviation of the staff section quarters were filmed for those units whose operations and in- that originated the document, (b) the title appearing on the telligence files were incomplete or missing. Map annexes (Kar- folder cover, and (c) additional information providing a general tenanlagen) consisting exclusively of large maps difficult to put description of the contents. The inclusive dates of the file on microfilm were generally omittedj maps interspersed among and item are given under a "Date" column. integrated with the textual records were filmed in several over- lapping sections, which, along with the loss of color markings, The original records, filmed and unfilmed, have been returned to detracts considerably from their value and ease of use. the Federal Republic of Germany for deposit in the Bundesarchiv- Militararchiv in Freiburg. The master negatives of Microcopy A unit history precedes the file item listing for each division. T-315 have been deposited with the Publications Sales Branch, These histories are a revised and expanded form of the shorter National Archives, Washington, D.C0 204-08, from which copies unit histories filmed at the beginning of every roll reproduc- of specific rolls may be purchased. Reference copies may be ing the records of each unit. The unit histories are based on consulted in the microfilm reading room of the National Archives. information found in the records, in the Potsdam catalogs, and For suggestions for citing microfilm see page 142., on contemporary German daily situation maps, supplementing or correcting the brief histories given in the Order of Battle of The descriptions in this Guide were prepared by Anton F. Grassl, the German Army. War Department, Washington, March 194-5. A George Wagner, Petronilla Hawes, Cleveland E. Collier, Ignaz data card describing each filmed record item has been filmed Ernst, and Dr. Julius Wilds/tosser under the supervision of immediately preceding the folder it describes, and the cards Donald E. Spencer. for all folders on one roll of film are again filmed as a finding aid at the beginning of that roll. The information ROBERT WOLFE Specialist for Modern European History iv www.maparchive.ru TABLE OF CONTENTS German Military Symbols and Abbreviations . ..... „ . , t e vii Organization of German Army Staffs . ..... , ...... • a r Records: 1. Panzer- Division (1st Panzer. Division) . ......... ] 1, Gebirgs-Di vision (1st Mountain Division) . .......... t 2 1. Falls chirm jager-Di vision (1st Parachute Division) ......... 3 2. Panzer-Division (2d Panzer Division) ............. iv 3. Panzer-Division (3d Panzer Division) ............. 5 3. Gebirgs-Di vision (3d Mountain Division) ............ 7 4. Panzer- Division (4th Panzer Division), . ..... ...... 8 5. Panzar -Division (5th Panzer Division) ............. 9 5. Gebirgs-Di vision (5th Mountain Division) ... ......... 11 6, Infanterie-Di vision (6th Infantry Division) ........... 12 6. Panzer-Division (6th Panzer Division),. ........... 13 7. Panzer-Division (7th Panzer Division) * . ........ 14 9o Tnfanterie-Di vision (9th Infantry Division) . .......... 16 10, Panzergrenadier-Di vision (lOth Panzer Grenadier Division). ....... 13 10. Panzer-Division (10th Panzer Division) ............ 25 11. Infanterie-Di vision (llth Infantry Division) ..... ..... 31 11. Panzer-Division (llth Panzer Division) . ........... 36 11. Luftwaffen-Felddi vision (llth Air Force Field Division) ...... 42 12. Infanterie-Di vision (12th Infantry Division) ........... 43 12. Panzer-Division (12th Panzer Division) . ...... ... 51 13. Infanterie-Di vision (mot.) (13th Motorized Infantry Division) ...... 57 13. Panzer-Division (13th Panzer Division) ..... „ ...... 58 13. Luftwaffen-Felddi vision (13th Air Force Field Division) ........ 62 14. Inf ant srie-Di vision (14th Infantry Division) . ...... 64 14. Panzer-Division (I4t'i Panzer Division) .........