Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te 22 o Pipiri 1941, ka tīmata te 45th Infantry Division ki te Operation Barbarossa mā te tīmata i te whakapae 9-ra-roa o te Brest Fortress. I te Poutu-te-rangi 1942 i hinga te ope Whero i te wehenga i Livny, Russia ka mau ki nga tuhinga o te wehenga. Koinei te wā tuatahi i mōhio ai te ope Whero ki te parenga o Brest Fortress.
He aha? I hangaia ano engari i tino whakangaromia i Bobruisk i te Pipiri 1944 i te Operation Bagration. I hangaia ano hei 45th Volksgrenadier Division i te ngahuru o 1944 i Polani. I whawhai te wehenga ki Warsaw me Radom i te 1945, i hoki whakamuri i Silesia ki Koniggratz, a, i te mutunga ki Czechoslovakia, i reira i tuku ai.