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25. Panzer-Pi vision (25th Panzer Division) 37Formed in Eberswalde on February 27, 194-2, the 2$. Pan zerdi vis ionsstabembarked from Hamburg on March 5 for Oslo, where it was broughtto full division strength with 4,000 new recruits. The division wasinvolved in training and occupation duties, but also took part inthe operation against Norwegian partisans who attacked the heavywater plant at Rjukan on February 28, 194-3. In late August 194-3,the division sailed from Oslo to Copenhagen, where it participatedin the operation to disarm the Danish Army on August 28, 194-3.Moved to France in September 194-3, in October it was reassigned todefensive positions on the eastern front, southwest of Kiev.ItemAlthough there are no records of the division available dated laterthan November 10, 194-3, the situation maps of Lage Ost show thatthis division participated in:6peration& in the Fastov, Berdichev,Vinnitsa, Proskurov, Chortkov,'and Stanislav areas from December194-3 to April 194-4-, suffering such heavy losses during its withdrawalacross the northern Ukraine in March 1944, that it was moved toDenmark in May for rehabilitation. Returned to the Pultusk area,Poland, in September 194-4-, the 25. Panzer-Division defended thePultusk, Warka, Radom, Mogielnica, Forst, Guben, Pasewalk, andMiincheberg areas from October 194-4- to April 194-5.Dates Item No. Roll 1st Framela, Tatigkeitsberichte. Activation of the division staff in Eberswalde on-Feb 27, 194-2j transfer to Hamburg for movement by sea to Oslo on Mar 5;training exercises after the arrival of 4-,000 new recruits to expand tofull division strength; operations at Rjukan, Norway (when Norwegian partisansattacked the heavy \/ater plant with explosives causing considerabledamage on Feb 28, 194-3); division training orders; Operation "Tivoliausflug"(transfer from Oslo to Copenhagen to disarm the Danish Army on Aug 28, 194-3);and movement of the division to France in the Arras, Cambrai, and .Amiensareas. Also, lists of officers' duty assignments. The division was commandedby Gen.Lt. Hans Haarde from Feb 27 to Dec 31, 194-2, and Gen.Lt.Adolf von Schell from Jan 1, 194-3.la, Tatigkeitsbericht. Transfer of over 600 vehicles to augment the 14-. Panzer-Division, which was scheduled to move to the eastern front in the beginningof Oct 194-3; and the movement of the division on Oct 29, 194-3, to the southernsector of the eastern front in the Berdichev, Kazatin, Fastov, and BelayaTserkov areas to take part in the operations southwest of Kiev. The divisionwas subordinate to the XLVII. Pz.K.Feb 1942 -Oct 24, 1943 44770 815Nov 6-10, 1943 44771 815 186