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204: 588:. Well-placed Polish anti-tank guns and barricades erected on main streets repulsed this assault. On several occasions, the lack of armament on the Polish side was made up for by ingenuity. One of the streets leading towards the city centre was covered with turpentine from a nearby factory. When German tanks approached, the liquid was set on fire, and the tanks were destroyed without a shot being fired. The German forces suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat. After the failed assault on Warsaw, 4th Panzer Division was withdrawn westward and took part in the 186: 758:. The assault started on 30 September 1941, the division captured Orel in early October but was ambushed on the road to Mtsensk by 1st Guards Rifle Corps on the 6th of that month. Attempts by the outclassed Panzers to maneuver round the Soviet flanks were defeated with heavy loss as the Soviet T-34s savaged the underarmored Mark IV tanks, reducing much of the divisional armor to burned out, smoking wreckage by end of day. The advance resumed with growing loss and in late October 375: 339: 162: 363: 38: 351: 767:, as the southern arm of a pincer which tried to surround the Soviet capital. The Germans formations were paralysed when the autumn rains set in, turning the only road to Tula into a stretch of mud. Bogged down German tanks were attacked by Soviet aircraft. With the onset of frost in early November, the Germans could use the roads again, but faced the problem of not being equipped for 251: 1987: 690:
almost unopposed. After several months of occupation duty in France, in late November, the 4th Division was withdrawn to Würzburg, where it was reorganized and reinforced. The 36th Panzer Regiment was detached and assigned to the newly formed
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concentrated most of the 2nd Panzer groups' remaining tanks into a single brigade under the 4th Panzer division, the spearhead of the XXIV Panzer Corps. By mid-November it was down to 50 tanks but still ground on reaching
1569: 857:. The Soviet advance cut the German army group in two and the division was mostly dispersed. Some of its sub-units were cut off from the rest of German-held territory, along with the 16th and 18th Armies, in 2022: 473:, on 10 November 1938 as the first of a second wave of new armoured divisions in Germany following the creation of the original three tank divisions in 1935. Alongside the 4th Panzer Division the 2017: 1562: 842:) and on 2 August 1944, alongside the 19th Panzer Division, threw the Soviet III Tank Corps back to Wolomin. The Soviet Tank Corps suffered heavy losses and their advance halted. 1893: 1383: 1555: 782:
area, where the thaw halted the Soviet counter-offensive and the unit could be partially reinforced. Throughout 1942 it fought in the battle of Orel, a series of almost
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and 16 |command tanks]]. The division lacked some infantry and anti-tank units.. After entering Polish territory, on 1 September, the division used civilians as
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some 65 kilometres behind the lines. The division then spearheaded one of the pincer moves to surround and destroy a large Soviet force in the
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itself. In early June 1940, the division managed to cross a large part of France in several days. By the time that the
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of Austria in March 1938. The division's insignia, which were emblazoned on tank turrets, was derived from the "
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On 5 December, the division was withdrawn and ordered to defend a stretch of front near Moscow against a
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in the summer of 1944. It was evacuated by sea and returned to the main front in
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and the division retreated with the rest of the German army. Assigned to the
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11 Polish prisoners of war were executed by elements of the 4th Division.
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In the spring of 1944, the division moved to the area of
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regiment, and began another assault towards Ochota and
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Würzburg had previously been the garrison town for the
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during the expected Soviet spring offensive. However,
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4th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr)

Nazi Germany
German Army
Panzer
Armoured warfare
Division

Wehrmacht
Wehrkreis XIII
Würzburg
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Kursk
Courland Pocket
Georg-Hans Reinhardt

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