Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi wa22 Chikumi 1941, 45th Infantry Division yakatanga Operation Barbarossa nekutanga kutenderedzwa kwemazuva mapfumbamwe kweBrest Fortress. Muna March 1942 Red Army yakakunda divi racho paLivny, Russia uye yakatora zvinyorwa zveboka racho. Iyoyo yakanga iri nguva yokutanga iyo Red Army yakadzidza pamusoro pokudzivirirwa kweBrest Fortress iyo yakatambura kurasikirwa kukuru munguva yeKursk
. Yakavakwazve asi yakaparadzwa paBobruisk muna June 1944 panguva yeOperation Bagration. Zvakare yakavakwazve se45th Volksgrenadier Division mumatsutso a1944 muPoland. Chikamu chakarwa paWarsaw neRadom muna 1945, ichidzokera shure kuburikidza neSilesia kuenda kuKoniggratz, uye pakupedzisira kuCzechoslovakia, kwavakazvipira.