Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the army of Nazi Germany during World War II.

[1] In the 1939 Invasion of Poland, the division was on the right wing of Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group South.

On 22 June 1941, the 45th Infantry Division began Operation Barbarossa by starting the 9-day long siege of the Brest Fortress.

That was the first time the Red Army learned about the defense of the Brest Fortress[3] It suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of Kursk.

[5]: 504  The division fought at Warsaw and Radom in 1945, retreating through Silesia to Koniggratz, and finally to Czechoslovakia, where it surrendered.