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189th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ2810855 ↗
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The 189th Infantry Division was a reserve division of the German Army in World War II.

Operational history

September 26, 1942: Formation of the 189. Reserve-Division

December 6, 1942: The 189. Reserve-Division is renamed 189. Infanterie-Division (B)

May 15, 1943: The 189. Reserve-Division is reformed in France from Division Nr. 189. In 1944, it fought against the Allied landings in Operation Dragoon in the South of France and suffered heavy losses.

October 8, 1944: The 189. Infanterie-Division was reformed in France from the 189. Reserve-Division and the 242.

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This entry incorporates text from “189th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.