Annual reports are well known from the corporate world. Until I went through my files tonight I did not know that German divisions also had them. They were a bit different though, no foreword by the Chief Exec, no glossy pictures, or endless business prose about the competitive position of the company. In their case, a single page sufficed. Below I give the info contained in the Appendices to the War Diary of the division. It covers the time of fighting in North Africa.
The whole list would be too long to reproduce here, so I just restrict myself to two units of the division:
Unit: Machinegun Battalion 8
Tanks and armoured vehicles
Destroyed: 16
Captured: 0
Motor Vehicles
Destroyed: 60
Captured: 45
Artillery pieces
Destroyed: 0
Captured: 0
POW: 200
Unit: Reconnaissance Battalion 3
Tanks and armoured vehicles
Destroyed: 29
Captured: 17
Motor Vehicles
Destroyed: 125
Captured: 0
Artillery pieces
Destroyed: 5
Captured: 7
POW: 500
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