VGD) was a volksgrenadier division of the German Army (i.e. Heer) during the Second World War, active from 1944 to 1945.

[1] The division fought in the Ardennes, inflicting on the 106th US Infantry Division the worst defeat suffered by U.S. forces in the European theatre of World War II, when over 8,000 American soldiers surrendered to German troops.

As the offensive steam came to an end in the Ardennes, the division went on the defensive, and there they would stay.

[1] On March 6, 1945, when Botsch was ordered to take command of the LIIIrd Army Corps, the 18.

VGD led by Heinz Kokott, Heinrich Himmler's brother-in-law.