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207. Sicherungs Division 207th Security Division
207th Sicherungs Division Vehicle Insignia
Active	August 1939-December 1944
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Rear security
Size	Division
Engagements	World War II

Military unit

The 207th Infantry Division (German: 207. Infanterie-Division) was established in August 1939, and acted as a border security unit during the invasion of Poland as part of the Fourth Army under Army Group North. In May 1940 during the invasion of the Netherlands it attacked the Grebbe Line and was part of 18th Army. In June 1940 it was transferred to the OKH's Reserve Army. In July it was transferred to Pomerania, and in August it was disbanded and its elements used to create three security divisions: the 207th, the 281st, and the 285th, in preparation for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The 207th Security Division (207. Sicherungs-Division) was subordinated to the Army Group North Rear Area until December 1944, when it was disbanded. Its headquarters staff continued as a "special purpose" (German z.b.V.) divisional headquarters under the Sixteenth Army, ending the war in the pocket with Army Group Courland.

Commanders

Generalleutnant Karl von Tiedemann (? August 1939 – 1 January 1943)
Generalleutnant Erich Hofmann (1 January 1943 – ? November 1943)
Generalleutnant Bogislav Graf von Schwerin, (? November 1943 – 17 September 1944)
Generalmajor Martin Berg (17 September 1944 – 10 December 1944)

References

Tessin, Georg (1974). Die Landstreitkräfte 201—280. Vol. 8. Frankfurt/Main: E.S. Mittler. p. 28. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

v t e Security divisions of the Wehrmacht
52nd 201st 203rd 207th 213th 221st 281st 285th 286th 325th 390th 391st 403rd 444th 454th 707th
See also: List of German divisions in World War II

v t e Wehrmacht Army Group Rear Areas during the German–Soviet War, 1941–45
Army Group Rear Area Command	North Centre South
Commanding organisations	Army High Command Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS Army Group North Army Group Centre Army Group South
Commanders	Erich Friderici Ludwig Kübler Kuno-Hans von Both Franz von Roques Karl von Roques Edwin von Rothkirch Max von Schenckendorff Joachim Witthöft
Security Divisions	201st 203rd 207th 213th 221st (Police Battalion (PB) 309) 281st 285th 286th 403rd 444th 454th 707th
HSS-PF	Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Friedrich Jeckeln Hans-Adolf Prützmann
Order Police and SS Detachments	Einsatzgruppen (PB 9) Police Regiment North Police Regiment Centre (PB 307, PB 316, PB 322) Police Regiment South (PB 45, PB 303, PB 314) Police Regiment Special Purpose (PB 304, PB 315, PB 320) SS Cavalry Brigade 1st SS Infantry Brigade 2nd SS Infantry Brigade
Milestones	Hunger Plan Hitler's speech of 30 March 1941 Criminal orders (Barbarossa Decree * Commissar Order * Guidelines for the Conduct of the Troops in Russia) Mogilev conference Nazi security warfare
Major crimes	Babi Yar Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre Persecution of Soviet prisoners of war
War crimes trials	High Command Trial Kharkov Trial Krasnodar Trial Minsk Trial Riga Trial Ukase 43
Related articles	The Holocaust War of annihilation War crimes of the Wehrmacht Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
Historiography	Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 Hitler’s Bandit Hunters Hitler's Generals on Trial Hitler's War in the East 1941−1945 Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality

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