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issued an order re-designating it as the 9th Mountain Division, but the order came so late that it is not actually listed as such on any situation maps or other official records. The unit had withdrawn from Lappland into Norway as German fortunes in the Arctic waned, and surrendered to the British at
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Two simultaneous but independent attempts were made to raise the division in the waning days of the war; the resulting units are conventionally distinguished as
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the end of the war. (Some documentation from the post-war period further confuses matters by referring to this unit as the 10th Mountain Division.)
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In the spring of 1944, the 139th Mountain Regiment, which had been left in
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when it withdrew at the end of 1941, was reinforced to become
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