 The 32nd Infantry Division was formed on 1 October 1936 in Köslin, in the II Military District under the command of "Generalleutnant" Nikolaus von Falkenhorst.The division was already mobilize on 1 August 1939 and transferred to the Polish border in the area of Preußisch Friedland.At the outbreak of World War II, the division crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 and reached the Vistula at Kulm on the third day of operations.