After enjoying major success of the Battle of Debrecen, the division fought in co-operation with sPzAbt 503 and was soon involved in the withdrawal...... more
After enjoying major success of the Battle of Debrecen, the division fought in co-operation with s
PzAbt 503 and was soon involved in the withdrawal towards Budapest. The Panzergrenadier Division, s
PzAbt 503 and the 13. Panzer-Division Feldherrnhalle, by now exhausted and dangerously understrength, were pushed back into the city. On December 21, 1944, s
PzAbt 503 was renamed schwere-Panzer-Abteilung Feldherrnhalle. On December 31, the three formations were encircled along with IX. SS-Gebirgskorps. For the next month, the Feldherrnhalle units desperately held out for rescue. After the failure of Operation Konrad, Armeegruppe Balck's rescue attempts, the pocket collapsed and the divisions were destroyed on February 12, 1945. Among those to escape the pocket was a group of several hundred Feldherrnhalle men.
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