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The 57th Battalion was created in Military District 6 (Wehrkreis VI) on October 12, 1937, and became a unit of the 1st Light Brigade. The garrison city of the battalion is Hoeckster. The staff of the battalion was recruited from the personnel of the 5th combat engineer battalion, 5th infantry division, and 43rd combat engineer battalion. After the brigade was renamed the 1st Light Division, on April 15, 1940, the battalion was renamed the 57th Panzer Engineer Battalion, and subordinated to the 6th Panzer DivisionThe battalion took part in the battles near Moscow, in Vyazma, Kalinin, Yukhnov and Rzhev. In March 1942, the battalion suffered heavy losses near Rzhev and was sent to rest in France. In 1943, the battalion returned to the Eastern Front and again took part in the battles for Kharkov and Kirovograd, on the Dnepr, near Kamenetz-Podolsky and again suffered losses near Ternopol, from where it again returned to Vilnius area, and then retreated to Poland and further to Austria
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The 57th Battalion was created in Military District 6 (Wehrkreis VI) on October 12, 1937, and became a unit of the 1st Light Brigade. The garrison city of the battalion is Hoeckster. The staff of the battalion was recruited from the personnel of the 5th combat engineer battalion, 5th infantry division, and 43rd combat engineer battalion. After the brigade was renamed the 1st Light Division, on April 15, 1940, the battalion was renamed the 57th Panzer Engineer Battalion, and subordinated to the 6th Panzer DivisionThe battalion took part in the battles near Moscow, in Vyazma, Kalinin, Yukhnov and Rzhev. In March 1942, the battalion suffered heavy losses near Rzhev and was sent to rest in France. In 1943, the battalion returned to the Eastern Front and again took part in the battles for Kharkov and Kirovograd, on the Dnepr, near Kamenetz-Podolsky and again suffered losses near Ternopol, from where it again returned to Vilnius area, and then retreated to Poland and further to Austria