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      The XII SS Army Corps was a corps of the Waffen-SS. It saw action on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War II.


      History


      The corps was formed on 1 August 1944 in Silesia from the remnants of Kampfgruppe von Gottberg and the LIII Army Corps, and added to the 3rd Panzer Army. From September 1944, it fought in the Western Front as part of the 1st Parachute Army. Later it fought under the 15th Army on the Siegfried Line and the Ruhr Front. The corps was surrounded and destroyed in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945.


      Commanders


      1 August 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
      6 August 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Curt von Gottberg
      18 October 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Karl Maria Demelhuber
      20 October 1944: General der Infanterie Günther Blumentritt
      20 January 1945: Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein
      29 January 1945: Generalleutnant Eduard Crasemann


      Orders of battle


      16 September 1944

      548th Grenadier Division
      7th Panzer Division
      1 March 1945

      176th Infantry Division
      183rd Volksgrenadier Division
      338th Infantry Division
      Panzer-Lehr-Division


      Sources


      Rolf Stoves: Die gepanzerten und motorisierten deutschen Großverbände 1935–1945. Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2003, ISBN 3-89555-102-3

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