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The XXVIII Army Corps (German designation XXVIII. Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis III. During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies. In 1945, the corps was briefly named Armeeabteilung Samland (Corps Task Force Samland). The corps fought in Samland until annihilated in late April 1945.




Order of battle


Following is the organization of the corps when it was part of the Eighteenth Army of Army Group North early in 1944:




= January 1944

=
Commander: General of the Artillery (Germany) Herbert Loch
12th Luftwaffe Field Division under Major-General Gottfried Weber
23rd Field Infantry Regiment
24th Field Infantry Regiment
12th Field Artillery Regiment
13th Luftwaffe Field Division under Lieutenant-General Helmuth Reymann
25th Field Infantry Regiment
26th Field Infantry Regiment
13th Field Artillery Regiment
German 21st Infantry Division under Lieutenant-General Gerhard Matzky
3rd Infantry Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
45th Infantry Regiment
21st Artillery Regiment
96th Infantry Division (Germany) under Lieutenant-General Richard Wirtz
283rd Infantry Regiment
284th Infantry Regiment
287th Infantry Regiment
196th Artillery Regiment
121.Infanterie-Division under Major-General Helmuth Priess
405th Infantry Regiment
407th Infantry Regiment
408th Infantry Regiment
121st Artillery Regiment




Commanding officers


General der Infanterie Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, 1 June 1940
General der Artillerie Peter Weyer, 20 June 1940
General der Infanterie Mauritz von Wiktorin, 25 November 1940
General der Artillerie Herbert Loch, 27 October 1941
General der Infanterie Gerhard Matzky, 28 March 1944
General der Infanterie Hans Gollnick, 20 May 1944




See also


Battle of Memel
Battle of Königsberg
List of German corps in World War II




Citations






Bibliography


Tessin, Georg. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen–SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 [Units and Troops of the German Military and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945] (in German). Vol. 4: Die Landstreitkräfte 15–30 (Ground Units 15–30). Osnabrück: Biblio.




Sources


Lexikon der Wehrmacht

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