The Fortress Division Warsaw (German: Festung-Division “Warschau”) was a fortress division of the Army Group A of the German Wehrmacht in World War II.

The division was set up in early January 1945 in the Polish capital Warsaw to defend the same against the Red Army as part of the strategy of permanent positions.

[1] and later, after the city was captured, on January 18, 1945, almost completely destroyed by the Red Army.

[2] Previously, the commander of the 9th Army, General der Panzertruppe Smilo von Lüttwitz, had given up the defense of the city without a higher order, which dissolved the cohesion of the troops.

Generalleutnant Friedrich Weber, the commander of the fortress division, was then transferred to the Führerreserve, sentenced to parole at the front and no longer received a military command.