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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Yes, it makes most sense for replacements to be sent into existing units rather than form new ones.
However, Nazi Germany let existing units fall apart and simply raised whole new divisions - part of Hitlers madness I think. Although they only had a few dozen divisions (or whatever it was) actually capable of any type of combat, on paper they had hundreds!
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I don't want to start another discussion here, but that is not explained by Hitler's madness. The intension was to confuse the foreign intelligence services which had the worse difficulties to identify and locate German units. It worked very well until 1942 at least and still works today as it remains fairly hard to accurately identify the components of several German units. In addition, that situation evolved with the situation at war: France also had several paper units while it started to face defeat in 1940.