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The 21st Infantry Division (Germany) was formed in 1934 in Elbing, East Prussia, by expanding the 3rd Prussian Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division of the old Reichswehr. As this was a direct breach of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles , its existence was initially concealed; it was formally designated as the 21st Infantry Division in ...
Desert camo in use by the German Army for battle dress uniforms in desert and semi-arid regions.It was mostly deployed in Afghanistan. The colours of the camouflage are sand, brown and green. [100] Multitarn. 6-Farben-Tarndruck Germany: Flecktarn: Universal Special forces camouflage in use in the special forces of the German military. [101]
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3 .
The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments [1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction unit, Lehr Infantry Battalion). Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912. [2]
1 Infantry weapons. 2 Machine guns. 3 Special weapons. 4 Artillery. 5 Other vehicles. 6 Ships. ... German Military Vehicles of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to ...
In the beginning of 1941, XXI Army Corps, already effectively an army-level unit since its designation as Gruppe XXI, was fully replaced and had its organizational structure transferred to the newly formed Armee Norwegen. With the ordinal number 21 freed up for German army corps, a new corps with that number, XXI Mountain Corps, was created in ...