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The II SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.It was commanded by Paul Hausser during the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk in 1943 and by Wilhelm Bittrich on the Western Front in 1944.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich (German: 2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich" ) or SS Division Das Reich was an armored division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II . Initially formed from regiments of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), Das Reich initially served during the Battle of France in 1940 before seeing combat on the ...
II SS Panzer Corps; III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps; IV SS Panzer Corps (formerly VII SS Panzer Corps) V SS Mountain Corps; VI SS Army Corps (Latvian) VII SS Panzer Corps (see above ↑ IV SS Panzer Corps) VIII SS Cavalry Corps (planned in 1945 but not formed) IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) X SS Corps (made up of disbanded XIV SS ...
He then was given command over the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen effective February 1943 until 1 July 1944. [10] On 1 July 1944, he was appointed the commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Corps. The 2nd Panzer Corps fought in Normandy. In early September 1944 the 2nd Panzer Corps was relocated to the Arnhem area in the Netherlands, in order to ...
He led the 1st, 2nd and 3rd SS divisions during the Battle of Kursk. [10] After Kursk, his Corps was re-formed (substituting the 1st, 2nd and 3rd SS Panzer Divisions with the 9th and 10th SS divisions) and sent to Italy, then to France where he commanded them in the early stages of the Normandy Campaign. [11]
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.
XLVIII Panzer Corps (Otto von Knobelsdorff) 3rd Panzer Division; 11th Panzer Division; Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland; 167th Infantry Division; II SS Panzer Corps (Paul Hausser) 1st SS Panzergrenadier Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; 2nd SS Panzergrenadier Division Das Reich; 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf
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 ...