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On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launched Operation Uranus, a counter-offensive which encircled the entire 6th Army and the 24th Panzer Division of the 4th Panzer Army. The 4th Panzer Army tried and failed to break the encirclement of Stalingrad in Operation Winter Storm. It was destroyed as a result of the battle. [5] [6]
The 4th Panzer Division (English: 4th Tank Division) was an armored division in the Army of Nazi Germany. In World War II , it participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland , the 1940 invasion of France , and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union .
Division Name (in German) Ethnic composition Named after Years Active Insignia Maximum Manpower 1st: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Germans and 300 Italians after 8/9/1943: Life Regiment Adolf Hitler: 1933–1945: 22,000 (1944) [2] 2nd: Das Reich: Germans: Greater Germanic Reich: 1939–1945: 19,021 (1941) [1] 3rd: Totenkopf: Germans: Totenkopf ...
9th Panzer Division (previously 4th Light Division) 10th Panzer Division; 11th Panzer Division; 12th Panzer Division (previously 2nd Motorized Infantry Division) 13th Panzer Division (previously 13th Infantry Division, 13th Motorized Infantry Division; later Panzer Division Feldherrnhalle 2) 14th Panzer Division (previously 4th Infantry Division)
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The 4th Army contained the II Corps and III Corps, each with two infantry divisions, the XIX Corps with two motorized and one panzer divisions, and three other divisions, including two in reserve. Its objective was to capture the Polish Corridor , thus linking mainland Germany with East Prussia .