On 31 July, after taking the standard personal oath to Hitler, under whose authority they were to be fighting,[REF] the Blue Division was formally incorporated into the German Wehrmacht as the 250th Division [REF].
In August 1942, it was transferred north to the southeastern flank of the Leningrad siege, just south of the Neva near Pushkin, Kolpino and Krasny Bor in the Izhora River area.