The 89th Infantry Division (german: 89. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German

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during

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Operational history

The 89th Infantry Division was raised as part of the 25th deployment wave.Other divisions of the 25th wave: 77th, 84th, 85th, 91st and 92nd Infantry Divisions. It was first assembled at Truppenübungsplatz Bergen near

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on 15 January 1944. Like the other divisions of the 25th wave, the 89th Infantry Division originally contained only two (instead of the standard three) infantry regiments. The initial regiments of the 89th Infantry Divisions were Grenader Regiments 1055 and 1056. The manpower of the 89th Infantry Division was raised from the remainders of Grenadier Regiment 1023 as well as the third battalion of Grenadier Regiment 1032, both parts of the

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. The division's initial military deployment happened in occupied

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on 13 February 1944. The division was transferred to occupied

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in late June 1944, in response to the Allied

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. The division was trapped in the Falaise Pocket and subsequently destroyed. A new iteration of the division was then deployed under 7th Army as a division with three regiments. The additional regiment that joined the division was named Grenadier Regiment 1063. The division joined

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in February 1945 and was again destroyed by Allied forces in the

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mountain range. Remainders of the division were then absorbed by the 326th Infantry Division. A third deployment of the division was ordered by the high command of 19th Army on 8 April 1945 by merging of Brigade 1005 and Baur Brigade, but this new 89th Infantry Division was not realized due to the end of the war on 8 May 1945.

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