![]() A Polish aircraft was shot down on 3 September and its crew taken prisoner. During that battle the division was fighting the Polish Volhynian Cavalry Brigade under Colonel Julian Filipowicz. After entering Polish territory, on 1 September, the division used civilians as human shields during the battle of Mokra. The division lacked some infantry and anti-tank units. Equipped with roughly 341 tanks, including 183 Panzer I, 130 Panzer II, 12 Panzer IV and 16 PzBef. The division's insignia, which were emblazoned on tank turrets, was derived from the " Algiz" rune.Īt the beginning of the Invasion of Poland (1939), the division was one of the first to cross the border in the operational area of Army Group South. ![]() Würzburg had previously been the garrison town for the 2nd Panzer Division which had moved its headquarters to Vienna after the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938. Alongside the 4th Panzer Division the 5th was formed at Oppeln, now Opole in Poland, five days later. The 4th Panzer Division was formed in Würzburg, Bavaria, on 10 November 1938 as the first of a second wave of new armoured divisions in Germany following the creation of the original three tank divisions in 1935. There it surrendered to the Red Army at the end of the war. ![]() ![]() It was evacuated by sea and returned to the main front in West Prussia in January 1945. It remained on the Eastern Front, mainly under Army Group Centre, until it was trapped on the coast at Courland in the summer of 1944. In World War II, it participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasion of France, and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. ![]() The 4th Panzer Division (English: 4th Tank Division) was an armored division in the Army of Nazi Germany. ![]()
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