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The 87th Infantry Division was created on 26 August 1939 in Altenburg . The division is notable as the first German division to enter the French capital city of Paris on 14 June 1940, during the Battle of France. The French 7th Army had abandoned the city the previous day, leaving it as an open city to avoid the city's destruction.
Gustav Schmidt (general) (1894–1943), German Wehrmacht lieutenant general; Hans Schmidt (general of the Infantry) (1877–1948), German Wehrmacht general of infantry; Hans Schmidt (general) (1895–1971), German Wehrmacht lieutenant general; Harry Schmidt (USMC) (1886–1968), U.S. Marine Corps four-star general; Karl von Schmidt (1817–1875 ...
Landing on schedule, VI Corps surprised the Germans, but Major General Lucas's decision to consolidate the beachhead instead of attacking gave the Germans time to bring the LXXVI Panzer Corps forward to oppose the landings. One regiment of the 45th (the 179th Infantry) went ashore with the landings.
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (2 January 1886 – 30 August 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was an army level commander. While serving as military commander of German-occupied France and as commander of the 17th Army in the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa.
The 187th Infantry Division (187. Infanterie-Division) was a formation of the Imperial German Army in World War I. References. 187. Infanterie-Division (Chronik 1915/1918) - Der erste Weltkrieg; Franz Bettag, Die Eroberung von Nowo Georgiewsk. Schlachten des Weltkrieges, Bd. 8 (Oldenburg, 1926)
Awards. German Cross, in silver. War Merit Cross, with Swords. Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class. Rudolf Toussaint (2 May 1891 – 1 July 1968) [1] was a German Army officer. Toussaint saw action in both World Wars. During World War II he was appointed Commissioner of the German army in the office of the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. [2]
The U.S. 317th Infantry was guarding the Americans' flank in the west and the U.S. 318th Infantry pushed through the city, arriving in the vicinity of the command bunker of General Erxleben at 0900 on April 4, 1945. Faced with the collapse of his defenses, Erxleben dispatched a captain early on April 4 to discuss surrender terms with the Americans. The American reply was that the Germans had ...
