5th Ranger Division. 1935-1945

The History of the 5th Yegens division of the Wehrmacht was written by her veteran Adolf Region - the former commander of the 5th artillery regiment, which was part of the division.
One of the oldest vermachlet compounds was formed as the 5th Infantry Division in 1934 in the south-west of Germany, in the land of Badenvürttemberg. Triumphantly passing through the territory of France during the campaign of 1939-1940, it was transferred to the east and from the first to last days he participated in the war against the Soviet Union.
In 1941, coming in the Moscow direction, the 5th Infantry Division reached the region Vyazma, and then fought on the approaches to Moscow. Large losses, at the end of 1941, she was aimed at re-forming in a quiet France, without taking part in the final part of the battle near Moscow in the final part of Moscow. The division was reorganized first into a light propeller, and then to HECHERS, while maintaining his own sequence number. From February 1942, the connection was actively involved in fierce battles in the Demyansky direction. As part of various buildings of the 16th army of the Army Group The North Division occupied the position of the south-west of the old Russ. She fell to participate in DeBlocade surrounded by the Demyan group of German troops in the spring of 1942, and then in the holding of the so-called "Ramyshev corridor" and the strategic settlement, the old Russ. After the indigenous fracture in the war, at the end of 1943, with the already secondary front under the old Russky 5th English division was transferred to Vitebsk, and since December 1943, she fully divided the total share of Wehrmacht - continuously retreated, broke out of the environments , he was defeated, replenished and again desperately dismissed from relentlessly persecuted troops of the Red Army.
In 1945, the division as part of the group of Army "Vistula" held defense on r. Vistula, then on Oder in the area of ​​Zeelovsky heights. The defeated parts of the 5th English division managed to move away to the r. Elba, where on May 2-3, the remains of the division surrendered to the Americans.
Despite some pathos of the author, this book will be useful to the Russian reader, including specialists in the history of the Great Patriotic War, because sheds light into many little-known pages of the history of the Great Patriotic War, and above all operations of the Soviet North-Western Troops Under the old Russa and Demyansky in 1941-1943, which became one of the most tragic pages of the history of the war