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6th Panzer Division

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tanks and infantry anti-tank weapons were ineffective against the Soviet heavy tanks—some of them were out of ammunition but closed in and destroyed German antitank guns by driving over them. The Germans concentrated on immobilising the Soviet tanks by firing at their tracks and then by tackling them
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Kampfgruppe Raus consisted of Panzer Regiment 11, one battalion of the 4th Motorized infantry Regiment, the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 76th Artillery Regiment, one company of Panzer Engineer Battalion 57, one company from PanzerjÀger Battalion 41, one battery of the 2nd Battalion Flak Regiment 411
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The division, initially formed as a light brigade, participated in the invasions of Poland, Belgium, France and the Soviet Union. From 1941 to 1945 it fought on the Eastern Front, interrupted only by periods of refitting spent in France and Germany. It eventually surrendered to US forces in
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tanks, which proved efficient but difficult to maintain because the maintenance manuals were in Czech rather than German, and spare parts were less readily supplied and harder to easily requisition as a result. Furthermore, there were six
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regiment in mid-June 1940. It is estimated that, of the 40,000 black soldiers from the French colonies engaged in combat with German forces during the battle of France 1,500 to 3,000 died either during or after combat.
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Kampfgruppe Von Seckendorff consisting of the 114th Motorized infantry Regiment, Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 57, one company of PanzerjÀger Battalion 41 and Motorcycle Battalion 6 (morning).
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in October 1938 and the subsequent disestablishment of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Following the latter the division received 130 Czech-built tanks which were superior to the
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On 22 November 1943, the 6th Panzer Division possessed 38 tanks, of which 25 were operational. This rendered it the third-weakest panzer division of Army Group South; only
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through Belgium. It then swung back towards the French-Swiss border before relocating to Eastern Prussia in September 1940 where it remained until June 1941.
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Czechoslovakia in May 1945 but was handed over to Soviet authorities, where the majority of its remaining men would be imprisoned in
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Guderian, Heinz (2003) . "Anlage 2: Geheime Kommandosache. Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, 7.11.1944, Nr. 3940/44 g.Kdos.".
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Due to shortcomings that the campaign revealed in the organization of the Light divisions, it was reorganized as the
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At the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union the division had 239 tanks, but only twelve of those were
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in October 1939, as were the other three light divisions which became the 7th, 8th and 9th Panzer Divisions.
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Von Seckendorff of the division, with, for that morning only, Motorcycle Battalion 6, was overrun by Gen.
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Soldiers of the division allegedly executed an unknown number of black prisoners of war from the 12th
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General Johann Mickl of 11. Panzer-Division lends a hand getting a motorcycle up a hill.
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The 6th Panzer Division was part of the partially successful relief operation at the
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Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940
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was a mechanized unit established in October 1937 in imitation of the French
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type, or swarming with infantry to force grenades down the tank hatches.
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the division had been equipped with. In 1939, the division fought in the
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Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941–1945
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Die Gepanzerten und Motorisierten Deutschen GrossverbĂ€nde 1935–1945
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The Armoured and Motorised German Divisions and Brigades 1935–1945
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before retreating into Austria and taking part in the defence of
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and security that had traditionally been the responsibility of
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As the 6th Panzer Division, it participated in the 1940
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6th Panzer division troops on the Eastern Front, 1941
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In April 1938 the brigade was enlarged to become the
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
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United States Army Command and General Staff College
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Index

6th Panzer Division (Germany)
6th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr)

Nazi Germany
German Army
Panzer
Armoured warfare
Division

Wehrmacht
Wehrkreis VI
Wuppertal
World War II
Invasion of Poland
Battle of Belgium
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Kursk
Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
Erich Hoepner



German Army
World War II
Gulag
Division LĂ©gĂšre MĂ©canique
reconnaissance
cavalry

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