What was the concept of 50 German divisions during World War II? It’s no wonder that so many countries have suffered

Everyone knows that the Second World War was a tragic world war. The war ranged from Europe to Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 61 countries and regions and more than 2 billion people were involved in the war. The area is about 22 million square kilometers. According to incomplete statistics, more than 90 million soldiers and civilians suffered casualties during the war, and more than 5 trillion US dollars was lost. It was the largest world war in human history. Often in World War II people paid the most attention to Germany under Hitler's leadership. In the early days of World War II, it almost swept across Europe in an invincible manner. So many people will have questions, how many people were there in a German division in World War II? Can there be such a combat power? It took less than a month to capture France.

In World War II, you will find that many battle summaries and introductions are based on divisions. Then the number of German divisions at that time was based on a full-staffed infantry division. Forget it! Everyone knows that the military has a division of labor. There are officers, civilians, sergeants, and soldiers in the army. In a division of the German army at that time, there were about 500 officers, 100 civilians, 2500 sergeants, and the remaining soldiers were about 13,000, so if you add them up, there are more than 16,000. The number can be said to be very large, probably less than the number of an army in the Soviet Union at that time, but not much. But compared with other countries, this number is definitely an advantage. This is only in the number of advantages, and the configuration of weapons and equipment can make it a world away from China at that time.

At that time, the German army generally had 24 to 36 105 howitzers and 12 150 howitzers in a regular German infantry division, while the coastal defense division only had more than 40 guns. For a country of Germany's size, 50 divisions are enough to defend their country. At that time, two or three divisions and some supporting troops were formed into one army. In the early days of World War II, a German army could have nearly 80,000 people. By 1944, one army had less than 60,000 people. In this way, there are about 1 million people in 50 divisions. A force of more than 1 million people is a force that cannot be underestimated wherever it is placed. An example can be compared. The two main fronts of the Soviet attack on Berlin, the Belarusian First Army and the Ukrainian First Army have both There are 1 million people.

In the entire Soviet-German War, the strength of the Soviet infantry division was divided into several periods. At the beginning of World War II, due to mobilization, the strength of the Soviet infantry division basically reached 8,000. By the middle of World War II, it was the period of the Defence of Stalingrad, the Defence of Kursk, and the Battle of Kharkov. The territory is occupied by the enemy, and the Soviet Union cannot obtain a large amount of food and human resources. The Soviet infantry division generally has about 6,000 personnel, and the guards infantry division and some airborne divisions have reached 8,000 to 9,000 personnel. However, whenever the Soviet Red Army is offensive After turning to the defensive position, the strength of the infantry divisions participating in the battle generally dropped to 3,000 to 4,000. At the end of World War II, the strength of the Soviet infantry division rebounded, but it was 6,000 to 7,000, and the guard infantry division was slightly higher.

It can be seen that there was a huge difference in the number of people in your organization at the time. The German army captured France in more than a month, and it took France 11 years and spent The Maginot Line built by a large amount of treasury materials has become a laughing stock. The French campaign cost the Allies more than two million people, including captured and casualties, while the German casualties totaled just over 100,000. Later, when the Allies counterattacked Germany, they had obvious advantages in terms of strength and equipment, but it still took four months to drive the Germans out of France. It can be seen how far Germany has developed under Hitler's leadership.