--- title: Typical German Infantry Division url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/typical-german-infantry-division-newsmap-1943/ description: Perspective chart of a German infantry division of about 17,000 officers and men, drawn as rows of tiny figures, horses. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Typical German Infantry Division [![Typical German Infantry Division, 1943 US poster: Perspective chart of a German infantry division of about 17,000 officers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/typical-german-infantry-division-newsmap-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/typical-german-infantry-division-newsmap-1943.jpg) # Typical German Infantry Division Perspective chart of a German infantry division of about 17,000 officers and men, drawn as rows of tiny figures, horses, guns and vehicles under numbered unit flags, with a table of weapons per unit below. It is informational; the technique is faint, selective emphasis on size and equipment counts. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Typical GERMAN INFANTRY DIVISION Approximately 17,000 Officers and Enlisted Men. Not shown on this chart but included in the above figure are the Division Headquarters personnel, 152 Officers and Enlisted Men, and the Observation Battalion, 600 Officers and Enlisted Men. The Observation Battalion is attached to the Divisional Artillery. [signature: Sgt. T. Fetzinger] I INFANTERIE REGIMENT Infantry Regiment 99 Officers 3059 Enlisted Men (three times, identical) Light Machine Guns 115 Heavy Machine Guns 36 Light Mortars 27 Heavy Mortars 18 Anti-Tank Rifles .31 cal. 27 Anti-Tank Guns 37-mm 12 Light Infantry Howitzers 75-mm 6 Heavy Infantry Howitzers 150-mm 2 II ARTILLERIE REGIMENT Artillery Regiment 2100 Officers and Enlisted Men 105-mm Gun Howitzers 36 150-mm Gun Howitzers 8 105-mm Guns 4 Light Machine Guns 24 III AUFKLÄRUNGS ABTEILUNG Reconnaissance Battalion 575 Officers and Enlisted Men Light Machine Guns 24 Heavy Machine Guns 8 Light Mortars 3 Heavy Mortars 3 Anti-Tank Guns 37-mm 3 Infantry Howitzers 2 Armored Cars, Light 3 IV PANZERJÄGER ABTEILUNG Anti-Tank Battalion 599 Officers and Enlisted Men Light Machine Guns 18 Anti-Tank Guns, 37-mm 12 Anti-Tank Guns, 50-mm 18 V PIONIER BATAILLON Engineer Battalion 26 Officers 851 Enlisted Men Light Machine Guns 27 Anti-Tank Mines 1500 2 Companies, Partly Motorized 1 Company Motorized 1 Bridging Column VI NACHRICHTEN ABTEILUNG Signal Battalion 15 Officers 459 Enlisted Men Telephone Company Radio Company Motorized Light Signal Column VII VERSORGUNGSTRUPPEN Division Supply Force 2200 Officers and Enlisted Men Horse-Drawn Vehicles 30* Horses 218* Motorcycles 98* Trucks and Cars 325* *Approximate NEWSMAP Prepared and distributed by ARMY ORIENTATION COURSE, Special Service Division Army Service Forces, WAR DEPT., 2E580 Pentagon Bldg., Washington, D. C. [imprint: ★ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943 — 529110] ``` [← Tu défends la Belgique... en luttant au front de l'Est (You defend Belgium... by fighting on the Eastern Front)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tu-defends-la-belgique-ss-wallonie-1943/) [500,000 Pairs of Boots Were Shipped from Britain to Russia Within One Week of the German Invasion of the U.S.S.R. →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-500000-pairs-of-boots-to-russia-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). 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Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.