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The 45th Infantry Division (German: 45. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the army of Nazi Germany during World War II. Towards the end of the war, the division was reassembled into a second iteration, the 45th Volksgrenadier Division (45. Volksgrenadier-Division)
On 22 June 1941, the 45th Infantry Division began Operation Barbarossa by starting the 9-day long siege of the Brest Fortress. In March 1942 the Red Army defeated the division at Livny, Russia and captured the archive of the division. That was the first time the Red Army learned about the defense of the Brest Fortress It suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of Kursk. It was rebuilt but virtually destroyed at Bobruysk in June 1944 during Operation Bagration.
45th Volksgrenadier Division
The destroyed 45th Division was again rebuilt as the "45th Volksgrenadier Division" in the autumn of 1944 in Poland, by renaming the short-lived 546th Grenadier Division (546. Grenadier-Division), which was then still in formation. On 1 January, the division (then under 9th Army of Army Group A) had a strength of 10,118 men. The division fought at Warsaw and Radom in 1945, retreating through Silesia to Koniggratz, and finally to Czechoslovakia, where it surrendered.
Commanding officers
General der Infanterei Friedrich Materna (1 April 1938 – 1 October 1940)
Generalmajor Gerhard Körner, (25 October 1940 – 27 April 1941)
Generalleutnant Fritz Schlieper, (27 April 1941 – 27 February 1942)
Generalleutnant Fritz Kühlwein, (27 February 1942 – 25 April 1943)
Generalleutnant Hans Freiherr von Falkenstein, (25 April 1943 – 30 November 1943)
Generalmajor Joachim Engel, (30 November 1943 – 27 February 1944)
Generalmajor Gustav Gihr, (27 February 1944 – 9 April 1944)
Generalmajor Joachim Engel, (9 April 1944 – ? June 1944)
Generalmajor Richard Daniel, (19 July 1944 – March 1945)
Generalmajor Erich Hassenstein, (March 1945 – 2 May 1945)
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Бешанов В.В. "Бресткая крепость" Минск, 2004 (in Russian) page 130
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