Gebirgs Division) was established in October 1940. It took part in the 1941 Balkans Campaign and then joined Army Group South in Operation Barbarossa after it was already underway. In 1942 it participated in the failed attempt to seize the Caucasus in Operation Edelweiss under Army Group A. Following the operation's failure, the division was pushed back into the Kuban bridgehead on the Crimean Peninsula, the western Ukraine, Hungary, and Slovakia, surrendering to the Soviet forces near Czech Olomouc when the war ended in May 1945.