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Battle in Berlin order of battle

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This is the order of battle for German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army engaged in the battle in Berlin. The investment of Berlin began about 21 April 1945, it was followed by the assault and the capture of the city by the Soviets on 2 May 1945.

Berlin Defence Area

  • Combat group Axmann
  • HJ Department "Herbert Norkus"
  • Combat group Bärenfänger
  • Guard Battalion at the Army High Command (OKH) "Greater Germany" (elements)
  • Guard Battalion "Hermann Göring" (elements)
  • Combat group Krukenberg
  • 20px 11. SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland” (elements)
  • 20px 15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (company)
  • 20px 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS "Charlemagne" (French Nr. 1) (~400 soldiers){{cite book | last = Littlejohn | first = David | title = Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France | publisher = Bender Publishing | year = 1987 |isbn=978-0-912138-17-6| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atnWlgEACAAJ | p=173}}
  • 20px 101. SS Spanish Volunteer Company (~50 soldiers)
  • Caucasian Weapons Association of the SS (~20 soldiers)
  • Combat group Mohnke (~1,500 soldiers)
  • 22px 1. SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler” (~600 soldiers)
  • SS Panzergrenadier Training and Replacement Battalion 1
  • Escort Battalion Reichsführer-SS (~600 soldiers)
  • 20px Führer Escort Brigade (elements)
  • SS Escort Command of the Führer (elements)
  • Volkssturm Company Reich Chancellery
  • Combat group Reymann
  • 1st Flak Division
  • 22px 9th Army (elements)
  • 22px 9. Fallschirmjäger-Division (elements)
  • 22px 18. Panzer-Grenadier-Division (elements)
  • 22px 20. Panzer-Grenadier-Division (elements)
  • Combat group Scholz
  • Panzerjagdverband "Adolf Hitler" (elements)
  • Police Regiment Biesenthal (elements)
  • Transport Escort Battalion of the Luftwaffe 1/III (elements)
  • Kampfgruppe Weidling
  • LVI Panzer Corps (elements)
  • 20px Panzer Division “Müncheberg” (elements)
  • 20px Free Arabian Legion (~100 soldiers){{cite video |title=Saddam and the Third Reich (2005) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfXlMAl29ec&t=2429s |access-date=2025-04-25 |publisher=YouTube |quote=In April 1945, as the cataclysmic Battle for Berlin rages around Hitler's bunker, among the Nazi troops making their last suicidal stand are 100 men of the Grand Mufti's Arab Legion.}}
  • 22px Volkssturm
  • SS-Standarte 6
  • SA Brigade 28 "Horst Wessel" (Berlin-Ost)
  • SA-Bataillon "Horst Wessel"
  • SA-Abteilung "Wilhelm Gustloff"
  • SA-Brigade 29 (Berlin-Nord)
  • SA-Brigade 30 (Berlin-West)
  • SA-Brigade 31 (Berlin-Süd)
  • SA-Brigade 32 (Berlin-Mitte)
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/2
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/3
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/9 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/11 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/19 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/21
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/24
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/30
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/36
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/49
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/91
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/101 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/105 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/107
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/109 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/110
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/111 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/112 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/113 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/119
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/121 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/155
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/164
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/181 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/185
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/191
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/201 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/203 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/205 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/208
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/209 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/215 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/216
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/268
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/277
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/301
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/303 – Sector D
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/305
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/306 – Sector D
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/307 – Sector D
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/309 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/311
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/312
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/313
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/314
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/316 – Sector D
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/320 Hitlerjugend Volkssturm Battalion
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/355
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/403 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/405
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/407 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/421 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/424
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/425 – Sector E
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/427
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/511 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/513
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/515
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/517 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/521 – Sector C
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/550
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/556
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/569 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/603 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/607 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/609 – Sector F
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/611 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/615
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/617 – Sector G
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/628
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/691 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/707
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/709
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/713 – Sector H
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/714
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/715 – Treptow
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/725
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/803 – Sector H
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/804 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/805 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/806 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/811
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/812 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/813 Volkssturm Battalion Hummel – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/815 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/817 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/869 – Sector H
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/885 – Sector A
  • mot Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/891 – Sector A
  • mot Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/892 – Sector A
  • mot Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/894 – Sector A
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/909 – Sector B
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/917 – Sector B
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/919 – Sector B
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/921 – Treptow
  • Volkssturm-Bataillon 3/922 – Treptow

Soviet forces

= 1st Belorussian Front =

= 1st Ukrainian Front =

= Dnieper Flotilla =

See also

References

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  • Справочник «Освобождение городов: Справочник по освобождению городов в период Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1945» / М.Л.Дударенко, Ю.Г.Перечнев, В.Т.Елисеев и др. — М.: Воениздат, 1985. — 598 с

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