Formerly known as the Second Light Armored Division. On September 1939, 1, this division appeared on the Polish battlefield, and its commander was Lieutenant General storm. 1939 65438+1October 18 The 2nd Light Armored Division was officially renamed as the 7th Armored Division. On February 1940, Major General Owen Rommel took over the command of the 7th Armored Division. 1940 may 10, the "yellow plan" was implemented. The 7th Armored Division belongs to the 4th Army of Army Group A 15 Motorized Army, crossing the Derby border and heading for Ardennes. Rommel arrived in Munce on May 12, 2002, spent two days consolidating the bridgehead and started the race to March into the English Channel. On May 30th, we completed the encirclement of the allied forces in Dunkirk. Subsequently, the Ministry withdrew from the front line and took a short break until June 5 1940. In the second stage of the campaign, the division arrived in Gosley Oaks on June 7, and arrived in Joune the next day, completing the encirclement of the French 9th Army and 10 Army. By the time of the armistice on June 25th, the 7th Armored Division had arrived in southwest France. This division alone killed and injured 2624 people and lost 42 tanks, thus winning the title of "Devil's Division". 194 1 in June, the 7th armored division belonged to the 39th armored regiment of the 3rd armored cluster of the Central Army Group, and the 5th Soviet tank division was wiped out at the cost of losing half of its tanks. After many fierce battles, he returned to France to rest in May 1942. 1February, 943, the division returned to the eastern front, this time the southern army group. The Ministry participated in the retreats in Kursk, Kiev, zhitomir, Kharkov and later in various parts of Ukraine. 1in August, 944, the 7th armored division was transferred to East Prussia in the Baltic Sea and defended until 1944+01June. The troops are constantly consuming and cannot be replenished. 1April, 945, they evacuated from the sea. At this point, their troops were exhausted, leaving only an empty shelf, belonging to the 3 rd tank army. On May 3rd, 1945, the 7th Armored Division surrendered to the American and British troops.