703rd Infantry Division
The 703rd Infantry Division was a fictitious
Operational history
The 703rd Infantry Division was one of the four fictitious infantry divisions that the Wehrmacht pretended to have formed in the
The designation 703rd Infantry Division was given to the forces in the area of the fortress Ijmuiden in the occupied Netherlands. The Zandvoort local group received the designation Grenadier-Regiment 219, the local group Katwijk, formerly the 787th Turkic battalion, received the name Grenadier-Regiment 495, and the 24th ships cadre battalion became Grenadier-Regiment 579. The 703rd "division" was part of the 25th Army.[2] At the end of the war, the 703rd Division surrendered to British Army troops. The division had been commanded throughout its short lifespan by Hans Hüttner.[3]
References
- ISBN 3764810971.
- ISBN 3764810971.
- ISBN 0811734374.