387th Infantry Division

Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Army during the Second World War, active from 1942 to 1944.

The 387th Infantry Division was formed in Austria on 1 February 1942 under the command of Generalleutnant[Note 1] Arno Jahr.

[1] Dispatched to Russia, the division was soon engaged in the fighting in the southern area of the Eastern Front with Army Group South.

Rebuilt to divisional strength, it returned to the Eastern Front in July to oppose the Soviet Army in the Donets.

It then attempted to resist the Soviet advance of August-September 1943 to the south of Kharkov and at the end of the year was defending the Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive.