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The 9th Division was formed in December 1944^[1] under the command of General Bruno Bräuer with many Luftwaffe personnel transferred to combat duties for which they had no experience.^[2] In January 1945 two of his battalions were encircled by the 1st Ukrainian Front in Breslau where they were destroyed.^[3] This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Wrocław. ...

In the Battle of the Seelow Heights the 9th Division was positioned between Seelow and Neuhardenberg, they received the full force of the first days artillery bombardment by Marshal Georgi Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front on 16 April. Under this bombardment the 9th Division buckled. It rallied briefly on the morning of 17 April, when it was given some armoured support, but collapsed again shortly afterwards. Bräuer suffered a nervous breakdown and was relieved of his command at the request of Goering, angry at the collapse of one of his Luftwaffe divisions. Bräuer was followed in command by Colonel Herrmann.^[4] The SS Nordland Division rounded up some elements of the 9th Division and managed a temporarily successful counter attack.^[5] Combatants Germany Soviet Union Commanders Gotthard Heinrici Georgy Zhukov Strength 100,000 men 512 Tanks 344 artillery pieces 400 Anti-aircraft guns 1,000,000 men 3,155 Tanks 16,934 artillery pieces Casualties 12,000 Killed 33,000 Killed The Battle of the Seelow Heights was one of the... Seelow is a small German town with about 5000 inhabitants. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков) (December 1, 1896 - June 18, 1974), Soviet military commander and... The 1st Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 1st Byelorussian Front and 1st Belarusian Front) was a Soviet Army Front during the Great Patriotic War. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... Kampfverband Waräger Germanische-Freiwilligen-Division SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 11 (Germanische) 11. ...

By the 19 April, the remnants of the 9th Division along with what remained of the rest of the LVI Panzer Corps were within the Berlin U-Bahn outer defensive ring.^[6]During the attempted breakout on the night of 1 May– 2 May a small group of the 9th Division stormed the the tower of Spandau Rathaus (Town Hall) from which Soviet machine-gunners were decimating Germans attempting to break out of Berlin over the Haval using the Charlottenbrucke (bridge).^[7] By the end of the 2 May the 9th Parachute Division had ceased to exist. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... The Battle of Berlin was decided outside the city during the initial phases of the battle. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... For the 1980s New Wave group, see Spandau Ballet. ... Rathaus is the German word that is best translated as town hall. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ...

See also

• Fallschirmjäger

Fallschirmjäger photo taken from The Hague, Bezuidenhout during the invasion of the Low Countries, morning of May 10, 1940 , often rendered Fallschirmjager in English, is the German word for paratrooper. ...

References

• Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945, Penguin Books, 2002, ISBN 0-670-88695-5
• Le Tissier, Tony. Der Kampf um Berlin 1945, Bechtermünz Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-86947-906-7.
• Tessin, Georg. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS, Vol. III, Biblio Verlag, 1974, ISBN 3-7648-0942-6.

Footnotes

1. ^ Tessin, p.152
2. ^ Beevor pp.159,236
3. ^ Tessin, p.152
4. ^ Le Tissier, p. 228
5. ^ Beevor pp.223 236-237,243,246-247
6. ^ Beevor p.286
7. ^ Beevor p.385