"The Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment in 1940" Topic

"Grossdeutschland was probably (together with the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler the most powerful motorised infantry unit of the German Army on 10 May 1940. Each infantry platoon had four combat squads and an anti-tank rifle. In addition to the three infantry battalions, the IRGD had a heavy weapons battalion instead of a heavy weapons company, as was normal in standard infantry regiments. This fourth battalion had one light infantry gun company (13th company) with six 75mm infantry guns, an anti-tank company (14th company) with twelve 37mm anti-tank guns, a heavy infantry gun company (15th company) with four 150mm infantry guns, one assault gun company (16th company) with six StuG III (in May 1940 the StuG III was still in its development stage and this company was one of only three German Army units equipped, for combat testing purposes, with this powerful weapon). In addition, the IRGD had received during November of the previous year a motorised assault engineer battalion, 43rd Sturm-Pionier-Abteilung, with three assault companies and one bridge company.
On the eve of the attack, GD was at its start point in the Mosel, and ready for battle. For the offensive, three army groups, A, B and C, under Rundstedt, Bock and Leeb respectively, were created. The key tank units, including the 5th and 7th Panzers of Hoth's group, the Kleist Armoured Group (with the XIX Corps under Guderian) and the 6th and 8th Panzers under Reinhardt, were attached to Rundstedt's force. It was charged with the most daring element of the plan, a co-ordinated thrust through the ravined and forested Ardennes region behind the main concentration of Allied forces, thus bypassing the formidable French Maginot defensive line. This was to be followed by a race to the undefended Channel coast, before turning to complete the encirclement. In the north, Bock was to make a diversionary attack into Belgium, where the Belgian Army was concentrated on a defensive line on the Albert Canal and Meuse River lines, and seize the strategically important fortress at Eben Emael…"
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Fair enough to a degree, but all motorised infantry regiments had an infantry gun and a panzerjager company.

GD was unusual in having 4x150mm SiGs instead of the usual two, and the Stug battery of course.

Grossdeutschland was probably (together with the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler the most powerful motorised infantry unit of the German Army on 10 May 1940

A minor quibble, but Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler wasn't in the German Army, it was part of the SS. The Army (Heer) was part of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of the German state. The SS was the private army of the Nazi party, and not part of the Wehrmacht.