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Order of Battle of the Werhmacht on December 16th 1944

Army Group North

Objectives:

- Advance and Capture Antwerp

- Link up with Marinoberkommando West (MOKW)

Order of Battle:

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(Dunkirk)

Marine OberKommando West

General Kluge

1HQ Attached Self-propelled Artillery Brigade (Stuh 42)
1Infantry Division
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(Rotterdam)

6th Fallschrimjager Division

Lt. GeneralKruger

1 Fallschrimjager division

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II Armeekorps

Lt. General Grimmeis

3 Infantry (1 attached self-propelled artillery brigade)

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III Armeekorps

Lt. General Schwalbe

3 Infantry Divisions (1 attached self-propelled artillery brigade)
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(Amsterdam)

Kampfgruppe Student

General Student

1HQ division (1 attached self-propelled artillery brigade)
4 Infatry Divisions

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Fuhrer Begleit Brigade

Mj. General Priess

1 Motorized Division (Fuhrer Begleit Brigade) ** Transferring to Utrecht, Folding into 16th Panzergrenadier Division**

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Fuhrer Grenadier Brigade

Mj. General von Luttwitz

1 Mechanized Division (Fuhrer Grenadier Brigade)
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(Utrecht)

25th Armee

General Christiansen

1 HQ (1 Attached self-propelled Artillery Brigade)
5 Infantry Divisions (2 Self-propelled Artillery Brigades)

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16th Panzergrenadier Division

Mj. General Hitzfeld

1Motorized ****Receiving Fuhrer Begleit Brigade from Amsterdam*****
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(Arnhem)

VI Armeekorps

Lt. General Felber

3 Infantry Divisions (2 Self-Propelled Artillery Brigades)

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Army Group South

Objectives:

- Secure Southern Flank of Army Group North (Advance up to Namur/Rheims)

- Continue pushing to Paris

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(Dortmund)

1. Fallschirmjager Armee

General Schlemm

1 HQ (1 SP Arty)
2 Infantry Divisions (1 SP Arty)

Transferring from Essen, IV Volksgrenadier Korps (3 Infantry)

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Transferring from Kassel,

6th SS Infantry Division Nord

Lt. General Kleffel

1 Mountain Infantry Division
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(Essen)

V Armee Korps

General von Zangen

1 HQ (1 SP Arty

8 Infatry Divisions

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9th Panzer Division (Folding into 9th Panzergruppe Transferring from Kassel)

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IV Volksgrenadier Division

Transferring to Dortmund

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15th Panzergrenadier Division

Lt. General Sponheimer

1 Motorized Infatry (1 SP arty)

1 Motorized Division Transferring from Kassel (3rd Panzergrenadiers
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(Kassel)

3rd Panzergrenadiers (Transferring to 15th PanzerGren. at Essen

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9th Panzergruppe

Field Marshall Model

1HQ (1 SP Arty)
2 Panzer Divisions (1 SP Art, 1 Heavy Tank brigade) (10 SS Panzer Division Frundsberg)

Transferring to Essen, incorporating 9th Panzer Division)

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6th SS Infantry Division Nord

Lt. General Decker

1 Mountain Infatry Division

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(Cologne)

Kampfgruppe Obstfelder

General von Obstfelder

8 Infantry Divisions

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6th SS Panzer Armee

General Dietrich

1 HQ Division (1 SP Art)

4 Panzer Divisions (1 SP Art bregade, 1 Tank Destroyer brigade, 2 Heavy Tank Bregade)

1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich
9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstauffen
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

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5th Panzer Division

General von Manffel

1 HQ (1 SP Art)
3 Panzer Divisions (1 SP art, 1 Heavy tank brigade, 1 TD brigade)
(Panzer Lehr)

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3rd Fallschirmjager Division

Lt. General Puchler

1 Paratroop Div.
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Army Group South

Objectives:

- Secure Southern Flank of Army Group Center (Capture Strasbourg and Mulhousie)

- Capture (if possible) Troyes

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(Saarbrucken)

VII Armee

General Brandenburger

1 HQ (SP Art)
3 Infantry

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5th Fallschirmjager Division

Lt. General von Rothkirch

1 Paratroop Division
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(Frankfurt-am-Main)

Army Group South HQ

General Hausser

1HQ (1SP Art)
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(Stuttgart)

1 Armee

General Fortsch

1 HQ (1SP Art)
6 Infantry Divisions (2 Sp-Art)
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(Freiburg)

19. Armee

General Petersen

1HQ (1 SelfPropelled Artillery brigade)
4 Infantry Divisions (2 SelfPropelled Artillery)
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