39th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Infanterie-Division) was a German Army infantry division in World War II.

The 39th Infantry Division was formed in Germany in July 1942, largely from Polish and other non-German personnel.

The division spent time serving garrison duty in the Netherlands before being transferred to the Eastern Front in March 1943.

[1] Now under the command of Generalleutnant Ludwig Löweneck, the division was engaged in various actions against the Red Army.

The headquarters staff, under Generalmajor[Note 2] Paul Mahlmann as Löweneck had been killed in May 1943 in a vehicle accident, was integrated into the 41st Fortress Division, which garrisoned the Peloponnese in Greece.