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In June of 1941 the division joined Operation Barbarossa under Army Group North , and remained under that command until the end of 1943. At the beginning of 1944 it was transferred to Army Group Center , and during the summer it surrendered to the Soviets after being caught in a pocket by the Soviet Operation Bagration . It was reconstituted as the 12th Volksgrenadier Division in October of 1944, and fought the rest of the war in the west under Army Group B . It participated in the defense of Aachen , the Battle Of The Hurtgen Forest , and the Battle Of The Bulge . In April 1945 it surrendered at Wuppertal upon the collapse of the Ruhr Pocket . SOLDIERS ATTACHED TO THE 12TH INFANTRY DIVISION REFERENCES Note: The Web references may require you to follow links to cover the unit's entire history.
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