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III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps

Field	Value
unit_name	III SS Panzer Corps
caption	Unit insignia
dates	April 1943 – 4 May 1945
country	Nazi Germany
branch	[[File:Flag Schutzstaffel.svg	border	23px]] Waffen-SS
type	Panzer corps
role	Armoured warfare
size	Corps
battles	World War II
identification_symbol_label	Corps Insignia

The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (III. (germanisches) SS-Panzerkorps) was a Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The (Germanische) (lit. Germanic) part of its designation was granted as it was composed primarily of foreign volunteer formations.

History

The corps was formed in April 1943 as a headquarters for the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking" and the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland". The corps was placed under the control of former Wiking commander SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. After training, the corps took part in operations against the Yugoslav Partisans. The corps was then sent to a quiet sector in Army Group North, now made up of the Nordland Division and the 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade "Nederland". By this stage, Wiking had been sent south and came under the control of Army Group South's 8th Army.

Forced back by the 1944 Soviet winter offensive, the corps participated in the Battle for Narva Bridgehead in the summer of 1944. It then retreated with the rest of the army group across Estonia and into the Courland Peninsula. Transferred to the Oder Front and placed under Steiner's 11th SS Panzer Army, the corps participated in Operation Solstice before being assigned as the reserve corps to the 3rd Panzer Army.

Commanders

SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner (1 May 1943 – 30 October 1944)
SS-Obergruppenführer Georg Keppler (30 October 1944 – 4 February 1945)
SS-Obergruppenführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (4 February 1945 – 11 February 1945)
Generalleutnant Martin Unrein (11 February 1945 – 5 March 1945)
SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner (5 March 1945 – 8 May 1945)

Orders of battle

15 June 1944 — Narva Front

103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion
[[File:11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“.svg|22px]] 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland"
[[File:20th SS Division Logo.svg|22px]] 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade "Nederland"

16 September 1944

103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion
[[File:11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“.svg|22px]] 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland"
[[File:20th SS Division Logo.svg|22px]] 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade "Nederland"
[[File:Légion Wallonie (Walloon Legion).svg|22px]] 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Wallonien"
[[File:Shield of the Flemish Legion.svg|22px]] 6th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck"
[[File:11th Infanterie Division Logo 1.svg|22px]] 11th Infantry Division
300th Special Infantry Division
[[File:Romanian SS Shield.png|22px]] Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Romanian)

References

{{cite journal | author-link = Bernd Wegner | trans-title = On the Way to a Pan-Germanic army. Documents on the Origins of the IIIrd (Germanic) Panzer Corps

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