German 78th Infantry Division

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78th Infantry Division
78th Sturm Division
78th Grenadier Division
78th Volksgrenadier Division
78th Volks-Sturm Division

The 78th Infantry Division was raised in August 1939. It was stationed in France for occupation duties from the summer of 1940 through the spring of 1941, and then transferred east to participate in Opeation Barbarossa with Army Group Center. At the beginning of 1943 it was reorganized as 78th Sturm Division, with additional adjustments to its strength and organization over the next several months. It was destroyed near Minsk in July 1944, and the remnants were taken over by the 565th Volksgrenadier Division.

Later that month it was reconstituted as the 78th Grenadier Division by renaming the 543rd Volksgrenadier Division then in the process of forming. In October 1944 it was renamed as 78th Volksgrenadier Division, and in early 1945 renamed again to 78th Volks-Sturm Division. It surrendered to the Soviets at the end of the war in May.

Note: The title Volks-Sturm indicates a "Volksgrenadier Sturm Division", not a part of the Volkssturm militia.

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