Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Army during the Second World War, active from 1942 to 1945.
Initially based in the Netherlands, it saw active service on the Western Front and was redesignated as a Volksgrenadier division in May 1945.
Under the command of Generalleutnant[Note 1] Friedrich Bayer, the following month it was sent to the Netherlands to the coastline near Amsterdam and its original two regiments later each received an infantry battalion of volunteer troops from Turkestan and the Caucasus.
[1] Now commanded by Generalleutnant Wolf Trierenberg, the division was then transferred to France to reinforce Army Group B which was engaged in the fighting in Normandy.
By September it had been reduced to a Kampfgruppe and the following month it received reinforcements in the form of training battalions from the 526th Replacement Division.