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The 299th Infantry Division was formed in March and April 1940 from men from Hesse and Thuringia. The 299th Infantry Division first saw action in the 1940 campaign in France, staying in France until June 1941. From June 1941 the 299th Infantry Division then fought on the Eastern Front at the Southern and Central sectors of the front. The 299th Infantry Division gained distinction while fighting on the Eastern Front in the summer of 1943. In July 1944 the 299th Infantry Division was destroyed in fighting on the Eastern Front, reformed in September 1944. The 299th Infantry Division was sent back to the Eastern Front and destroyed in Eastern Prussia in February 1945.
War Crimes
The 299th division participated in the Massacre at Babi Yar under Willi Moser.
Commanding officers
General of the ArtilleryWilli Moser (6 April 1940 – 1 November 1942)
German Order of Battle, 1944: The Directory Prepared by Allied Intelligence, of Regiments, Formations, and Units of the German Armed Forces. Greenhill Books, 1994.
Roth, Hans. Eastern Inferno: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941–43. Casemate Publishing, 2010.
Nazi Germany
Heer (Wehrmacht)