The 304th Infantry Division was deployed twice, once in November 1940 and once again in February 1945, after the destruction of the previous formation in January of that same year.
There, it fought against Red Army formations in the southern Don river area in the winter of 1942/1943.
[2] On 20 February 1943, during the military reorganizations in the immediate aftermath of the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad, Infantry Regiment 574 was dissolved.
[1] The retreat of Army Group Don from Stalingrad caused significant disarray in the sector at large and in the 304th Infantry Division in particular.
These two new battalions were short-lived; they were deleted from the registry of the German military postal service in December 1943.
The division suffered heavy losses at Taganrog, and withdrew under significant Soviet pressure to the Dnieper bend.
On 30 August 1943, Sieler was replaced as divisional commander by Norbert Holm, but once again returned to the post for a third tenure starting in October 1943.