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  2. List of German divisions in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...

  3. Wehrmacht - Wikipedia

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    The Wehrmacht directed combat operations during World War II (from 1 September 1939 – 8 May 1945) as the German Reich's armed forces umbrella command-organization. After 1941 the OKH became the de facto Eastern Theatre higher-echelon command-organization for the Wehrmacht , excluding Waffen-SS except for operational and tactical combat purposes.

  4. Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table. Nazi organisations used a hierarchical structure, according to the so-called Führerprinzip (leader principle), and were oriented in line with the rank order system of ...

  5. Organization of the Kriegsmarine - Wikipedia

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    In the early years of World War II, in particular following the invasion of France, naval districts held relatively the same authority as a Navy region; by 1943, the naval districts had been downsized, with the larger districts broken apart into several smaller commands. There were approximately twenty naval districts in existence from 1941 to ...

  6. German General Staff - Wikipedia

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    The German General Staff, originally the Prussian General Staff and officially the Great General Staff (German: Großer Generalstab), was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later, the German Army, responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war, and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign.

  7. Panzer division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia

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    Panzertruppen - The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-88740-915-8. Niehorster, Leo (2016). "1st Panzer Division: in accordance with the 1939/40 Mobilization Plan". World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations.

  8. Military district (Germany) - Wikipedia

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    The military districts, also known in some English-language publications by their German name as Wehrkreise (singular: Wehrkreis), [1]: 27–40 were administrative territorial units in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The task of military districts was the organization and the handling of reinforcements and resupplies for local ...

  9. Abwehr - Wikipedia

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    The Abwehr was created in 1920 as part of the German Ministry of Defence when the German government was allowed to form the Reichswehr, the military organization of the Weimar Republic. The first head of the Abwehr was Major Friedrich Gempp , a former deputy to Colonel Walter Nicolai , the head of German intelligence during World War I , who ...