The 110th Infantry division of

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(

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) was formed in April 1940 in Lüneburg under the ''11. Armee'' and was commanded by '' Generalleutnant'' Ernst Seifert. Until June 1941 and the commencement of Operation ''Barbarossa'' on the 22nd day of that month, it was stationed in Poland. It fought on the Eastern Front as part of

Army Group Centre Army Group Centre (german: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created on 22 June 1941, as one of three German Army fo ...

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and had, by the end of the war, nine

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holders, four of whom received their awards in November 1943. The division was destroyed by Soviet forces in July 1944. The division itself consisted of three infantry regiments and an artillery regiment.Axis History Factbook
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Commanding officers

*'' Generalleutnant'' Ernst Seifert, 10 December 1940 – 24 January 1942 *''Generalleutnant'' Martin Gilbert, 1 February 1942 – 1 June 1943 *''Generalleutnant''

Eberhard von Kurowski __NOTOC__ Eberhard von Kurowski (10 September 1895 – 11 September 1957) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Kurowski surrendered to the Red Ar ...

, 1 June 1943 – 25 September 1943 *''Generalleutnant'' Albrecht Wüstenhagen, 25 September 1943 – 1 December 1943 *''Generalleutnant'' Eberhard von Kurowski, 1 December 1943 – 11 May 1944 *''

Generalmajor is the Germanic variant of major general, used in a number of Central and Northern European countries. Austria Belgium Denmark is the second lowest general officer rank in the Royal Danish Army and Royal Danish Air Force. As a two-star ...

Gustav Gihr Gustav Gihr (18 August 1894 – 31 October 1959) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 19 ...

, 11 May 1944 – 15 May 1944 *''Generalleutnant'' Eberhard von Kurowski, 15 May 1944 – July 1944

References

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