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10. SS-Panzer Division Frundsberg: First conceived in February 1943 and composed of young German conscripts, The Frundsberg division first received the honor title, Karl der Grosse in June of the same year. By December, 1943 the division was combined with the Langemarck regiment and was at unit strength of over 19,000 soldiers.

By March 1944, Frundsberg was posted to the Eastern Front, under GFM Erich Manstein, and was given a relief/rescue operation near Tarnopol. Heavy fighting continued during the spring of 1944, but was transferred by executive order to Normandy in June 1944.

The division saw heavy combat in western France throughout the summer of 1944, where it was severely depleted. It was sent to Holland for rest and refit in September. They participated in the “Operation Market Garden campaign, but again, suffering heavy losses, they were sent to Germany for rest and refit by October. During December 1944 and January 1945 the division was assigned to the Hagenau forest area of Germany.

In February 1945 the division was transferred to Berlin and became part of SS Ogf Steiner’s 11. SS Panzer-Armee, and fought against Zhukov’s advancing red army near Stettin, Poland. For the remainder of march and April, the division was pushed back to Sudetenland, and by May, 1945, the obvious conclusion in sight, the division disbanded on their own in an effort to make their way individually trying to avoid Soviet or Partisan capture. The bulk surrendering to the US 102^nd infantry on the Elbe River at Tangermunde.