21. Paratrooper division-Wikipédia

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21. Paratrooper division (Paratrooper)

Creation	April 1945
Dissolution	May 1945
Pays	Germany
Industry	Wehrmacht air force
Type	Paratrooper
Role	Infantry parachutist
Wars	Second World War
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The 21. Paratrooper division ( 21 ^{It is}Parachutist division) is one of the divisions of paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) of the German army (Wehrmacht) in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

The division is formed by ordering the April 5, 1945 in northern Holland, as a campaign training division, using elements of the training and parachutist reserve division and the Sturm brigade Gericke .

No element of the division was included in the Field post overview , so that few details are known.

Beginning	END	Grade	Name
April 5, 1945	May 1945	Oberst	Walter Gericke

April 1945

Parachute hunter regiment 61
Parachute hunter regiment 62
Parachute hunter regiment 63
Parachute artillery department 21
Parachute-Panzer-Jäger-Company 21
Shaders-grenade company companie 21
Parachute pioneer battalion 21
Shaders-Nachrichten-Companie 21

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Georges Bernage and François de Lannoy, Historical dictionary of Luftwaffe and Waffen-SS , Bayeux, Heimdal editions, 1998 , 480 p. (ISBN 2-84048-119-7-7 )

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Nazi Germany Luftwaffe units

Corps
Airline

Air fleet

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Jagdkorps	I II
Fallschirmkorps	I II
Fallschirm-Panzerkorps	Hermann Göring

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Paratrooper division
a brigade

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Division Hermann Göring	Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1 Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 2
Luftnachrichten Division	Ersatz Ausbildungs Ersatz-und Ausbildungs

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Hunting squad

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Slaughterhouse

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Destroyer squadron

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Aufklärungsgeschwader	11 12 13
Lehrgeschwader	1 2 Greifswald
Luftlandegeschwader	1 2
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Wettererkundungsstaffel	1 2 3 5 6 7 26 27 51 76 Ob.d.L
Divers	Sonderkommando Elbe Jagdverband 44