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72nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 72nd Infantry Division was formed on 19 September 1939 in Trier from Grenz-Division Trier, a border security unit. It was later refitted in Poland in March 1944 as part of the 24th wave (Aufstellungswelle). On 1 January 1945, the division, then under command of the 4th Panzer Army of Army Group A, had a strength of 10,493 men. The division surrendered to the Red Army in May 1945, after which Generalmajor Karl Arning was convicted of war crimes in the Soviet Union.
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