Army corps of the Wehrmacht Heer

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Army corps of the Wehrmacht Heer were major operational command formations of Nazi Germany’s army, typically controlling several divisions in large-scale World War II ground campaigns.

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Army corps of the Wehrmacht Heer canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf army corps
military formation type
alsoKnownAs Heereskorps
commandedBy General der Artillerie
General der Infanterie
General der Panzertruppe
commandLevel operational
tactical
country Nazi Germany
disbandedWith capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945
doctrine Blitzkrieg
engagedIn defensive operations
encirclement operations
occupation duties
offensive operations
geographicAreaOfOperations Balkans
Europe
Italy
North Africa
Soviet Union
hasComponent corps artillery
corps headquarters
engineer units
logistics units
signals units
ideologicalContext Nazism
surface form: National Socialism
languageOfDesignation German
militaryBranch Heer
notableSubtype Heereskorps
surface form: Armeekorps

XVIII Mountain Corps
surface form: Gebirgskorps

Panzerkorps
organizedAccordingTo German Army corps tables of organization and equipment
partOf Wehrmacht
surface form: Wehrmacht Heer
subordinateTo Wehrmacht
surface form: army (Wehrmacht Heer)

army group (Wehrmacht Heer)
successor post‑war Bundeswehr corps (conceptual)
timePeriod 1939–1945
typicallyCommands corps troops
infantry divisions
motorized infantry divisions
panzer divisions
security divisions
usedInConflict Battle of France
Eastern Front of World War II
Invasion of Poland
Italian campaign
surface form: Italian Campaign

North African campaign
surface form: North African Campaign

Operation Barbarossa
Western Front of World War II
World War II

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German Volksgrenadier divisions subordination Army corps of the Wehrmacht Heer