The 99th Light Infantry Division (german: 99. Leichte Infanterie-Division) was raised in November 1940 and remained in training at

Bad Kissingen Bad Kissingen is a German spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and seat of the district Bad Kissingen. Situated to the south of the Rhön Mountains on the Franconian Saale river, it is one of the health resorts, which be ...

until the summer of 1941. In June it took part in

Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...

—the German invasion of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

—and operated in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

and

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

under

Army Group South Army Group South (german: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of three German Army Groups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September Campaign, along with Army Group North to invade Poland. In the invasion of Poland Army Group Sou ...

until the fall, when it was withdrawn to

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for reorganization as the

7th Mountain Division The 7th Mountain Division (german: 7. Gebirgs Division) was formed through the redesignation of 99th Light Infantry Division, which had fought on the southern sector of the Eastern Front until being withdrawn to Germany in October 1941. In 1942 ...

. In early 1942 the 7th Mountain Division was transferred to serve under the 20th Mountain Army in Lapland, and remained there until it withdrew into

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at the beginning of 1945. It surrendered to the British there at the end of the war in May.

War Crimes

The 99th division participated in the Massacre at

Babi Yar Babi Yar (russian: Ба́бий Яр) or Babyn Yar ( uk, Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The fi ...

References

Note: The Web references may require you to follow links to cover the unit's entire history. * Pipes, Jason.
7th Gebirgsjager Division
. Retrieved April 14, 2005. * Wendel, Marcus (2004).

. Retrieved April 14, 2005. *
99. leichte Infanterie-Division
. German language article at www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved April 14, 2005. Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II, 0*099 Military units and formations established in 1940 Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 {{Germany-WWII-stub