3rd Light Division (Wehrmacht)

The 3rd Light Division (sometimes described as Light Mechanized or Light Panzer to distinguish it from the later Light infantry divisions) was raised in November 1938. In 1939 it fought in the Invasion of Poland. On 4 September 1939, soldiers from the division entered the region of Katowice where they met resistance from the local Polish population. In retribution 80 Polish prisoners of war were gathered in Kosciuszko Square by German soldiers and executed.^[1]

Due to shortcomings that the campaign revealed in the organization of the Light divisions it was reorganized as the 8th Panzer Division in October 1939.

References

↑ Szymon Datner (1974). Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu (Crimes of the Wehrmacht)

German Armoured Divisions of World War II

Heer
Panzer Divisions

Numbered Panzer Divisions	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 116th

Named Panzer Divisions	Panzer Division Clausewitz Panzer Division Feldherrnhalle 1 Panzer Division Feldherrnhalle 2 Panzer Division Holstein Panzer Division Jüterbog Panzer Division Kempf Panzer Lehr Division Panzer Division Müncheberg Panzer Division Tatra

Reserve Panzer Divisions	155th Reserve Panzer Division 179th Reserve Panzer Division 233rd Reserve Panzer Division 273rd Reserve Panzer Division

Waffen-SS
Panzer Divisions

SA
Panzer Divisions

Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle

Luftwaffe
Panzer Divisions

Hermann Göring Division

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