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The Infantry Regiment Grossdeutschland was activated on 14 June 1939. The regiment saw action in France in 1940, and took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. It was attached to Panzer Group 2 in the opening phases of Barbarossa, and was nearly destroyed in the Battle of Moscow in late 1941.
Except for the elite Panzer-Lehr-Division, which field-tested the new uniform in summer 1944 before its approval for general issue, the M44 was usually seen at the front only in the war's last months and generally on the greenest of troops: new replacements, teenage Flakhelfer, and Hitlerjugend and Volkssturm militia.
On tunics this took the form of a cloth patch about 9 cm (3.5 in) wide worn on the right breast, above the pocket. For enlisted uniforms it was jacquard-woven ("BeVo") or sometimes machine-embroidered in silver-grey rayon, for officers machine- or hand-embroidered in white silk or bright aluminum wire, and for generals hand-embroidered in gold bullion.
During this period, 1./Panzer Regiment 26 (Panther) joined the Panzer Regiment GD, and GD's I. Battalion moved to France to refit and train with the new tanks; they did not rejoin the division until after the Normandy invasion. The Panzergrenadier Regiment GD was a 4-battalion organization in 1944, though by June it was reduced to three.
This was a uniform insignia of the Panzergrenadier Division "Großdeutschland", an elite combat unit of the army of Nazi Germany that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The base portion of a cuff title is made of either wool, cotton, rayon or a cotton/rayon mix.
To achieve this, parts of the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland were, while the division retained its status, used as base for the Generalkommando Panzerkorps Großdeutschland. Units for the staff and the corps troops were: [1] Remnants of the (dissolved) 18th Artillery Division. Artillerie-Division-Stab 18 (Division Staff)
3rd Panzergrenadier Division (Germany) 10th Panzergrenadier Division (Germany) 15th Panzergrenadier Division; 16th Panzergrenadier Division; 18th Panzergrenadier Division; 20th Panzergrenadier Division; 25th Panzergrenadier Division; 29th Panzergrenadier Division (Germany) 90th Panzergrenadier Division
Karl Lorenz (24 January 1904 – 3 October 1964) was a German general during World War II who commanded the Panzer Division Grossdeutschland. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.