[2] In August, the division, again as a whole, was moved out of the 6th Army for the first time since before the beginning of the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The 168th Infantry Division remained part of the XXIV Army Corps between September and December 1942.

[1] On 9 March, Walter Chales de Beaulieu assumed divisional command of the 168th Infantry Division.

The division returned to the Belgorod area, where it had already fought as part of the LI Army Corps in November 1941.

[1] Near Cherkasy, the 168th Infantry Division was battered by heavy Soviet attacks after it was trapped in the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket.

[2] Between April and June 1944, the 168th Infantry Division was part of the XXXXVI Corps in the Ternopil area.

Between July and September 1944, the 168th Infantry Division was part of the XI Army Corps in the Carpathian Mountains.

[1] Anders was replaced as divisional commander by Schmidt-Hansen, who started his second tenure in this post, on 9 December 1944.

[3]: 504 In January 1945, the 168th Infantry Division was subordinate to the XXXXVIII Corps under the 4th Panzer Army in the Baranów area.

[2] Between February and May 1945, the 168th Infantry Division spent the last months of the war in Silesia, the same area in which it was originally formed.