17th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

17th Panzer Division
17th Panzer Division
17. Panzer-Division
	Unit insignia
Active	November 1940 – 8 May 1945
Country	Germany
Branch	Army
Type	Panzer
Role	Armoured warfare
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Augsburg
Engagements	World War II Operation Barbarossa; Battle of Białystok–Minsk; Battle of Moscow; Operation Wintergewitter; Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket; Kamenets-Podolsky pocket; Vistula–Oder Offensive; Silesian Offensives;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Hans-Jürgen von Arnim ; Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma

The 17th Panzer Division (German: 17. Panzer-Division) was a formation of the Wehrmacht in World War II. It was formed in November 1940 from the 27th Infantry Division. It took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and in the winter of 1941–42 participated in the Battle of Moscow. In November 1942, the division was sent to the southern sector of the Eastern Front where it participated in Operation Winter Storm, the failed attempt to relieve the surrounded troops at Stalingrad. The division was held in reserve during the Battle of Kursk in 1943, and thereafter retreated through Ukraine and Poland, before ending the war in Czechoslovakia.

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