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These higher-level organizations almost always mixed ordinary infantry units with the Panzerwaffe. Significant numbers of panzer and motorized formations were of the Waffen-SS . These did not fall under the Panzerwaffe administratively, although operationally they were organized and fought as part of army formations and under army command.
A panzer corps (German: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (Armeekorps (mot) or AK(mot)) were renamed to panzer corps. Panzer corps were created throughout the war, and existed in the Army, the Waffen-SS and even the Luftwaffe. Those ...
Corps-level units 15th Volkswerfer Brigade 182nd Flak Regiment 766th Volksartillerie Corps 2nd Panzer Division ‡ Oberst Meinrad von Lauchert 3rd Panzer Regiment 2nd and 304th Panzergrenadier Regiments 74th Artillery Regiment 2nd Recon Battalion 38th Antitank Battalion 38th Engineer Battalion 273rd Flak Battalion 38th Signals Battalion. 9th ...
The list aims to include all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally designated formations of two regiments from the same branch of arms. [1]: 84 For instance, 2. Panzer-Brigade contained the Panzer Regiments 3 and 4.
LIII Corps. 31st Infantry Division 56th Infantry Division [11] 167th Infantry Division. Army Reserve. 112th Infantry Division. Second Panzer Army Colonel General Heinz Guderian [i] XXIV Panzer Corps. 3rd Panzer Division [12] 4th Panzer Division [13] 10th Motorized Infantry Division. XLVII Panzer Corps. 17th Panzer Division 18th Panzer Division
XXXXVIII Panzer Corps (also: XXXXVIII Army Corp or XXXXVIII. Armeekorps ) [ note 1 ] , was a corps -level formation of the German Army which saw extensive action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.
In December 1944, 9th Panzer was assigned to XLVII Panzer Corps again as part of the 5th Panzer Army, Army Group B and was one of the units participating in the Battle of the Bulge. At this time sPzAbt 301 (equipped with Tiger I tanks) was attached to the division. The Corps was part of the central attack, pushing back the First United States Army.
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was organized according to the above table, and served as a standard for all other SS panzer divisions during World War II. The average complement was approximately 19,000. However, only two out of seven SS panzer divisions contained that strength.