Battle in Berlin order of battle

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
- 11. SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division “Nordland” (elements)
- 15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (company)
- 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division of the SS "Charlemagne" (French Nr. 1) (~300 soldiers)
- 101. SS Spanish Volunteer Company (~50 soldiers)
- Caucasian Weapons Association of the SS (~20 soldiers)
Combat group Mohnke (~1,500 soldiers)
- 1. SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler” (~600 soldiers)
  - SS Panzergrenadier Training and Replacement Battalion 1
- Escort Battalion Reichsführer-SS (~600 soldiers)
  - Führer Escort Brigade (elements)
- SS Escort Command of the Führer (elements)
- Volkssturm Company Reich Chancellery
Combat group Reymann
- 1st Flak Division
- 9th Army (elements)
  - 9. Fallschirmjäger-Division (elements)
  - 18. Panzer-Grenadier-Division (elements)
  - 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)
- Panzer Division “Müncheberg” (elements)
Free Arabian Legion (~100 soldiers)^[1]
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 Belorussian Front

1st Ukrainian Front

1st Ukrainian Front

Dnieper Flotilla

Dnieper Flotilla
- 1st River Ship Brigade (parts)

References

^ Saddam and the Third Reich (2005). YouTube. Retrieved 2025-04-25. 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.

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

[1] Saddam and the Third Reich (2005). YouTube. Retrieved 2025-04-25. 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.

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