The list of world war ii military units of germany contains all military units to serve with the armed forces of germany during world war ii.
German army records ww2. Military records at our branch in freiburg we keep more than 50 km of files of german armed forces going back to the time of the founding of the reich. Between 1939 and 1945 close to 13 million served in the heer. You can search the cwgc database for commemoration records of commonwealth servicemen and women who died during world war two.
The german army was the land forces component of the wehrmacht, the regular german armed forces, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in. Our records include any commonwealth. Reference copies of the microfilm may be.
The us national archives and records administration (nara) has more than 70,000 microfilm rolls of german records captured by the us army during and after world war ii. The records not only include military personnel but also civilians, nurses and merchant seamen. List of military corps — list of german corps in world war ii this is a list of german army corps that existed during world war ii.
Over 1.6 million were killed and over 4.1 million were wounded. Major units above corps level are listed here. Among them are archival documents.
Name birthdate and birthplace unit, reserve unit,. This collection contains index cards detailing casualties of war from germany between 1939 and. Nara t178 [ catalog record ] records of former german and japanese.
Below, i’ve compiled a list for you of the most common words on german military records (in my translating experience). Some records will contain more information than that listed above. I army corps (germany) ii army corps (germany) iii corps.