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    The 22nd Air Landing Division was a German infantry division during World War II. It was created in 1935 and participated in the invasions of Poland, the Netherlands, and France. The division later helped capture Sevastopol in Crimea and was garrisoned in Crete, playing a major role in the Battle of Leros. The division spent the later part of the war conducting anti-partisan operations in southeastern Europe before surrendering to Yugoslav forces in 1945.

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    The 22nd Air Landing Division was a German infantry division during World War II. It was created in 1935 and participated in the invasions of Poland, the Netherlands, and France. The division later helped capture Sevastopol in Crimea and was garrisoned in Crete, playing a major role in the Battle of Leros. The division spent the later part of the war conducting anti-partisan operations in southeastern Europe before surrendering to Yugoslav forces in 1945.

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    The 22nd Air Landing Division was a German infantry division during World War II. It was created in 1935 and participated in the invasions of Poland, the Netherlands, and France. The division later helped capture Sevastopol in Crimea and was garrisoned in Crete, playing a major role in the Battle of Leros. The division spent the later part of the war conducting anti-partisan operations in southeastern Europe before surrendering to Yugoslav forces in 1945.

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    22nd Air Landing Division (Wehrmacht)

    2 Commanders

    The 22nd Infantry Division was a German infantry division in World War II.

    Generalleutnant Adolf Strau (15 Oct 1935 - 10 Nov


    1938)
    Generalleutnant Hans Graf von Sponeck (10 Nov
    1938 - 10 Oct 1941)

    History

    General der Infanterie Ludwig Wol (10 Oct 1941


    - 1 Aug 1942)
    General der Infanterie Friedrich-Wilhelm Mller (1
    Aug 1942 - 15 Feb 1944)

    Created as 22. Infanterie-Division in 1935, one regiment participated in the 1939 Invasion of Poland; the rest
    of the division stayed in garrison on the Siegfried Line in
    case of a French attack in defense of Poland. The division retrained as 22. Luftlande-Division (Air Landing
    Division) for rapid tactical deployment to captured enemy
    airbases and performed in that role during the invasion of
    the Netherlands suering heavy losses, and afterward advanced into France operating as ordinary ground infantry.
    Though planned for use in its air-landing role for the
    Battle of Crete, it was replaced by another division at the
    last minute. It joined Army Group South in Operation
    Barbarossa (1941), attacking from Romania and, operating exclusively as ordinary ground infantry, helped storm
    Sevastopol in the Crimea (1942).

    Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe (15 Feb 1944 - 26


    Apr 1944)
    Generalleutnant Helmut Friebe (1 May 1944 - 15
    April 1945)
    Generalmajor Gerhard Khne (16 April 1944 - 15
    May 1945)

    3 Orders of Battle

    The unit was thereafter transferred to Crete for garrison duty and mop-up operations in the Aegean, playing 3.1 May 1940 - Fall Gelb
    a major role in the Battle of Leros. During September
    1943, forces of the unit committed numerous atrocities
    Divisionstab
    in Viannos. On 26 April 1944 the divisional commander, Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe, was abducted by a
    Infanterie-Regiment 16
    British Special Operations Executive team led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor and Capt Bill Stanley Moss.
    Infanterie-Regiment 47
    Kreipes car was ambushed at night on the way from the
    divisional headquarters at Ano Archanes to the Villa Ari Infanterie-Regiment 65
    adne at Knossos and he was taken cross-country over the
    mountains to the south coast where he and his captors
    Artillerie-Regiment 22
    were picked up by a British vessel near Rodakino on 14
    May. This operation was later portrayed in the book Ill
    Met by Moonlight (1950) written by Moss based on his
    Panzerabwehr-Abteilung 22
    wartime diaries, later adapted as a lm of the same name.
    Aufklrungs-Abteilung 22
    Withdrawn to the mainland in autumn 1944, the 22.
    Infanterie-Division spent the rest of the war in antipartisan operations in Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and
    Herzegovina in southeastern Europe, was renamed 22.
    Volksgrenadier-Division in March 1945, as it withdrew
    to Slavonia and nally surrendered to Yugoslav forces at
    the end of the war in May in Slovenia.

    Feldersatz-Bataillon 22
    Nachrichten-Bataillon 22
    Pionier-Bataillon 22
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    3.2

    July 1944 - Crete

    Divisionstab
    Grenadier-Regiment 16
    Grenadier-Regiment 47
    Grenadier-Regiment 65
    Artillerie-Regiment 22
    Panzerjger-Abteilung 22
    Aufklrungs-Abteilung 22
    Flak-Bataillon 22
    Nachrichten-Bataillon 22
    Pionier-Bataillon 22
    Feldersatz-Bataillon 22

    See also
    Airborne forces
    Division (military), Military unit, List of German
    divisions in World War II
    Heer, Wehrmacht

    References

    Note: The Web references may require you to follow


    links to cover the units entire history.
    Mauermann, Helmut Fliegerhorst Strmede. Eine
    Chronik in Wort und Bild. (2005) German language book about one of the westfalian bases of 22.
    I.D. (LL) in spring 1940
    Pipes, Jason. "22.Infanterie-Division". Retrieved
    April 2, 2005.
    Wendel, Marcus (2004). "22. Luftlande InfanterieDivision". Retrieved April 2, 2005.
    "22. Infanterie-Division / 22. (LL) InfanterieGerman language article at www.
    Division".
    lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de, with photos. Retrieved
    April 2, 2005.
    "22. Infanterie-Division - Die 'Bremer Division'".
    German language article at www.historic.de, with
    photos. Retrieved April 18, 2005.

    REFERENCES

    Burkhard Mller-Hillebrand (1969). Das Heer


    1933-1945. Entwicklung des organisatorischen Aufbaues (in German). Vol. III: Der Zweifrontenkrieg.
    Das Heer vom Beginn des Feldzuges gegen die Sowjetunion bis zum Kriegsende. Frankfurt am Main:
    Mittler. p. 286.
    Georg Tessin (1970). Verbnde und Truppen der
    deutschen Wehrmacht und Waen-SS im Zweiten
    Weltkrieg, 1939 - 1945 (in German). Vol. IV: Die
    Landstreitkrfte 15 30. Frankfurt am Main: Mittler.

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