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This is a list of German regiments during World War II. The list includes both regiments of the Wehrmacht (including the army (Heer), the navy (Kriegsmarine) and air force (Luftwaffe) as well as regiments of the Waffen-SS.

Regiments in the German armed forces
Regiments in the German armed forces were typically numbered (though some were named and some were both named and numbered), carrying an Arabic numeral (as opposed to the smaller batallions and larger brigades, both of which typically carried Roman numerals).

All "infantry regiments" were collectively renamed to become "grenadier regiments".

On 1 April 1943, the panzer troops were formally designated as a combined arms force, causing motorized infantry and mechanized infantry formations to switch force from infantry to armored forces.

Towards the end of the war, most of the war diaries of German regiments were lost, causing significant difficulties to historians in the reconstruction of the exact histories of each regiment.