6th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)

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6th Mountain Division
German: 6. Gebirgs-Division
Unit insignia
Active	June 1940 – 8 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	German Army
Type	Gebirgsjäger
Role	Mountain warfare
Size	Division
Engagements	World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ferdinand Schörner

The 6th Mountain Division (German: 6. Gebirgs-Division) was a German army Division of World War II. It was established in June 1940, and was deployed to France for occupation duties. In December it was relocated to Poland, where it remained until the spring of 1941. Having formed XVIII Mountain Corps with the 5th Mountain Division^[1], it then took part in Operation Marita, the invasion of Greece during the Balkans Campaign. In September it was relocated to northern Finland, where it operated in Lapland (west of Murmansk). From July 1942 onward it was part of the 20th Mountain Army along the Arctic coast. It withdrew into Norway when the Germans evacuated Finland in late 1944, and surrendered to the British at the end of the war in 1945.