36th Infantry Casualty FiguresĬasualty figures for the 36th Infantry Division, European theater of operations: The 36th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995. One of its attached battalions had been ordered to locate and secure all concentration camps in the area around Hurlach, near Landsberg. The 36th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Kauferingĭuring the 36th's drive into Bavaria, the division overran some of the Kaufering subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp on April 30, 1945. In 1945, the division advanced into the Rhineland and, by war's end, had reached the Bavarian Alps. During the German offensive in December (the Battle of the Bulge), the "Texas" held its defensive position and by the end of the month was counterattacking enemy forces. The 36th was subsequently redeployed to southern France and moved northeast to the region of Alsace. In September 1943, the unit advanced into Italy, where it took part in the fighting at Monte Cassino and entered Rome in June 1944. The "Texas" or "Lone Star" division was reactivated in 1940 and landed in North Africa in April 1943 as part of the Allied campaign to drive German and Italian forces from the continent. 36th Infantry Division Campaigns during World War IIįormed in July 1917, just a few months after the United States entered World War I, the 36th Infantry Division first saw combat in France in 1918.
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