104th Jäger Division was a German infantry division of World War II . It was formed in April 1943 , by the redesignation of the 704th Infantry Division , which was itself formed in April 1941 . The division served in Yugoslavia in May 1941 where it took part in anti-partisan and security operations in the Independent State of Croatia . In April 1943 , it was reorganized and redesignated the 104th Jäger Division and took part in the Battle of the Sutjeska in June 1943 . Following the Italian surrender , elements from the division took part in the murder of thousands of Italians from the 33 Infantry Division Acqui in September 1943 , on the Greek island of Cefalonia in one of the largest-scale German atrocities to be committed by German Army troops instead of the Waffen SS
German atrocities
War crimes of the Wehrmacht
104th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)