260th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II.

[2] The division was sent to the Upper Rhine region in October 1939, and spent the Battle of France in the reserves of OKH.

[1] The 260th Infantry Division joined Operation Barbarossa between July and August 1941, and subsequently fought at Kiev, Babruysk, and Moscow before participating in the defensive operations against the Soviet winter campaign of 1941–42.

He would hold the post until 6 October, upon which Hahm returned to a second tenure as division commander.

[1] On 21 April 1944, Alexander Conrady took command of the division, before he was replaced by Günther Klammt on 1 May 1944.

The divisional commander, Günter Klammt, was taken prisoner by the Red Army and would remain in captivity until 1955.

Ludwigsburg grave of an unknown soldier of the 260th Infantry Division, killed in action in 1942/43
Walther Hahm , twice commander of the 260th Division during 1942/43 (photographed in May 1943).
Walther Hahm during his time as commander of the 260th Division, pictured in the Soviet Union
Dietrich von Choltitz , divisional commander of the 260th Division in mid-to-late 1942.