Volksgrenadier-Division) was a volksgrenadier division of the German Army during World War II that fought entirely on the Western Front.

[3] The volksgrenadier formations were put together with young and old conscripts, security troops, former personnel of the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine,[1] and, in some cases, they were combined with surviving members of infantry divisions that had been destroyed.

[12] On 27 September, the 559th launched another attack, in the forest near Grémecey, and made some progress before American reinforcements from the 6th Armored Division arrived.

[20] The volksgrenadier division was then moved to Saarlautern near the West Wall,[21] and managed to hold its positions when the U.S. XX Corps began its initial attack starting on 28 November.

The 559th took heavy losses in fierce house-to-house fighting while defending Saarlautern from the U.S. 95th Infantry Division, which reached the city center on 3 December.

[22] In early January 1945, the division participated in Operation Nordwind, the southern portion of the German offensive that became the Battle of the Bulge.

[24] American forces spent the first two months of 1945 preparing for an offensive into the Saar–Palatinate, across the Moselle river, to establish bridgeheads along the Rhine at the southern end of the Allied front.

[25] Paul Hausser, the commander of Army Group G in the Saar region, requested that the 559th be withdrawn from the West Wall to reinforce the section of the Moselle river from Koblenz to Cochem, which Hitler granted.

[24] After the Americans established a bridgehead on the Moselle river and advanced into Saarland, the Germans withdrew to the eastern side of the Rhine.