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I.SS-Panzerkorps
I.SS-Panzerkorps Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
The I.SS-Panzerkorps Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was a German Waffen-SS panzer corps which saw action on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War II. Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...
PzKpfw V-D, a Panther tank Panzer? is German for armour. ...
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During World War II, the Western Front was the theater of fighting west of Germany, encompassing France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemberg, and Denmark. ...
The Eastern Front of World War II was the theatre of war covering the the conflict in eastern Europe. ...
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Formation and Training
The corps was raised on 27 July 1943 in Berlin-Lichterfeld. Formation took place on the Truppenübungsplatz at Beverloo, in occupied Belgium. The formation resulted in SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser's SS-Panzerkorps being renamed to II.SS-Panzerkorps. SS-Obergruppenfüher Josef Dietrich, the ex-Leibstandarte commander, was the corps first commander. Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...
Paul Papa Hausser (October 7, 1880 - December 21, 1972) was an officer in the German Army, achieving the high rank of Lieutenant General in the inter-war Reichswehr, after retirement from regular Army he became the father (thus the nickname “Papa”) of the Waffen-SS and one of its most...
The II.SS-Panzerkorps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. Commanders SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser (1 Jun 1942 - 28 Jun 1944) SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich [[10 Jul 1944 - 9 May 1945) Orders of...
General Sepp Dietrich Josef Sepp Dietrich (May 28, 1892–April 21/22, 1966) was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Hitler. ...
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Life Guard of the SS Adolf Hitler) started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Adolf Hitlers personal, elite bodyguard. ...
In August 1943, the corps was transferred to Merano in Italy where it took part in operations to disarm Italian troops. After the completion of this, the corps continued it's training, being sporadically engaged in anti-partisan operations in northern Italy. By December 1943, the corps was fully formed and deemed ready for action, and it's HQ was set up in Brussels. Meran (German) / Merano (Italian) is probably best known as a spa in the South Tyrol. ...
Partisan may refer to: Look up Partisan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. ...
Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the headquarters of the European Union, as two of its four main institutions have their headquarters in the...
Normandy Battles In April 1944, the corps was moved to Septeuil, to the west of Paris, where it had 1.SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend, 130.Panzer-Lehr-Division and 17.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Götz von Berlichingen assigned to it. The corps was to form a part of General der Panzertruppen Leo Geyr von Schweppenberg's Panzergruppe West, the Western theatre's armoured reserve. During this time, the corps was granted the honorary title Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Life Guard of the SS Adolf Hitler) started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Adolf Hitlers personal, elite bodyguard. ...
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) was a German Waffen SS armoured division of World War II. It was one of only two German divisions to carry Hitlers name and was formed as an extension of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The 12th SS was...
Panzergrenadiers of I./902. ...
SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Götz von Berlichingen 17. ...
With the launch of Operation Overlord and the allied invasion of France on 6 June 1944, the corps was ordered to Falaise. The Hitlerjugend engaged British and Canadian troops to the north of Caen on 8 June. The corps was tasked with holding the area of Caen and saw heavy fighting around the villages of Authie, Buron and the airport at Carpiquet. The Tiger I's of the corps' heavy panzer abteilung, 101.schwere-SS-Panzer-Abt, distinguished themselves during the fighting, with the Abt's SS-Untersturmführer Michael Wittman defeating a British armoured breakthrough virtually single-handedly near the village of Villers-Bocage. The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allies. ...
Location within France Caen is a city and a commune of northwestern France. ...
Authie is the name of several places in France: Communes Authie, commune of the Calvados département Authie, commune of the Somme département River Authie, French river This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Carpiquet is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse_Normandie région in France. ...
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Abteilung (shortened Abt) is a German language word often used when referring to German military formations. ...
Michael Wittmann (April 22, 1914 - August 8, 1944), during World War II, was the SS-Hauptsturmführer (SS-Captain) in the Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, one of the most successful tank commanders in the history of warfare. ...
Villers-Bocage is a town and commune in France, in the Calvados département, in Normandy. ...
The corps played a major role in the halting of the British Epsom and Goodwood operations, and the Götz von Berlichingen and Panzer-Lehr bitterly contested the American advance in the bocage country near St. Lo. During World War II, Operation Epsom (Allies, 1944) was a British attack to seize Caen, France. ...
Operation Goodwood was also used as the codename for the series of attacks by the British Fleet Air Arm on the German battleship Tirpitz in late August 1944. ...
Bocage is a French word referring to a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, with tortuous side-roads and lanes bounded on both sides by banks surmounted with high thick hedgerows limiting visibility. ...
Saint-Lô is a city and commune of France, the préfecture (capital) of the Manche département, in Normandy. ...
After the launch of the American Operation Cobra, which decimated the Panzer-Lehr, the corps was ordered to take part in Operation Lüttich, the abortive counter-offensive towards Avranches. The remnants of the corps escaped encirclement in the Falaise Pocket and fought hard to retain an escape corridor for the trapped German forces. After the fall of the falaise pocket and the collapse of the front, the corps took part in the fighting withdrawal to the Franco-German border. Operation Cobra was the codename for the World War II operation planned by United States Army general Omar Bradley to break out from the Normandy area after the previous months D-Day landings. ...
During World War II, Operation Lüttich was a counterattack launched by German forces on the left flank of the Allied lodgment at Normandy beginning on 7 August 1944. ...
Avranches is a commune of Normandy, France, in the Manche département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
During World War II, the Falaise pocket (also known as the Chambois pocket, Chambois-Montcormel pocket, Falaise-Chambois pocket) was the area between the four cities of Trun-Argentan-Vimoutiers-Chambois near Falaise, France, in which United States 12th Army Group encircled and destroyed the German Seventh Army. ...
Ardennes - Hungary In early October, 1944, the corps was pulled back from the front line for rest and refit in Westfalen. Refitting was complete by early December 1944, and the corps was ordered to the Ardennes region to join it's old commander, 'Sepp' Dietrich's 6.SS-Panzer-Armee, currently mustering for a major offensive codenamed Wacht Am Rhein. Westphalia (in German, Westfalen) is a (historic) region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and now included in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia (and the (south-)west of Lower Saxony). ...
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests and rolling hill country, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France (lending its name to the Ardennes département and the Champagne-Ardenne région). ...
The corps was to play a major role in the Battle of the Ardennes, with Kampfgruppe Peiper of the Leibstandarte division forming the spearhead. After several weeks heavy fighting, the corps was exhausted. The offensive was called off, and the corps, together with the whole of Dietrich's Army, was ordered to move to Hungary to take part in another offensive, Operation Frühlingserwachen. The German Ardennes Offensive1, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, started in late December 1944 and was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. The German army had intended to split the Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp and then proceeding to...
The Kampfgruppe was a common combat formation used by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. ...
The Eastern Front at the time of the Lake Balaton Offensive. ...
The assault was finally in launched on 6 March, 1945. The corps, which formed the left flank of Dietrich's assault, was soon bogged down by mud and, despite initial gains, the offensive was soon halted by intense Soviet opposition. The corps fell back in an attempt to support the IV.SS-Panzerkorps, which was to their left and engaged in heavy action near Stuhlweissenberg. On 15 March, the Soviets launched the Vienna Operation, which split the lines of the neighbouring Armeegruppe Balck and forced the entire southern front to fall back towards Vienna. The corps was engaged in scattered resistance, falling back through Hungary and Austria. The corps surrendered to the Americans on 8 May, 1945. The IV.SS-Panzerkorps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front and in the Balkans during World War II. The Panzerkorps was formed in August, 1943 in Poitiers, France. ...
The German Sixth Army (German: ) was a World War II field army and the protagonist of the tragic Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. ...
Vienna (German: Wien [viËn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...
Commanders - SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef Dietrich (4 July 1943 - 9 Aug 1944)
- SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Krämer (9 Aug 1944 - 16 Aug 1944)
- SS-Obergruppenführer Georg Keppler (16 Aug 1944 - 30 Oct 1944)
- SS-Obergruppenführer Hermann Priess (30 Oct 1944 - 8 May 1945)
General Sepp Dietrich Josef Sepp Dietrich (May 28, 1892–April 21/22, 1966) was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Hitler. ...
Orders Of Battle
Normandy is a geographical region in northern France. ...
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, commonly abbreviated as s. ...
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Life Guard of the SS Adolf Hitler) started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Adolf Hitlers personal, elite bodyguard. ...
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) was a German Waffen SS armoured division of World War II. It was one of only two German divisions to carry Hitlers name and was formed as an extension of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The 12th SS was...
SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Götz von Berlichingen 17. ...
Panzergrenadiers of I./902. ...
The German Ardennes Offensive1, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, started in late December 1944 and was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. The German army had intended to split the Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp and then proceeding to...
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, commonly abbreviated as s. ...
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Life Guard of the SS Adolf Hitler) started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Adolf Hitlers personal, elite bodyguard. ...
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) was a German Waffen SS armoured division of World War II. It was one of only two German divisions to carry Hitlers name and was formed as an extension of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The 12th SS was...
The Eastern Front at the time of the Lake Balaton Offensive. ...
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501 Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, commonly abbreviated as s. ...
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Life Guard of the SS Adolf Hitler) started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Adolf Hitlers personal, elite bodyguard. ...
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) was a German Waffen SS armoured division of World War II. It was one of only two German divisions to carry Hitlers name and was formed as an extension of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. The 12th SS was...
References - Reynolds, Michael - Men of Steel: I SS Panzer Corps: The Ardennes and Eastern Front
- Reynolds, Michael - Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy
- Axis History Factbook
- Feldgrau.com - The German Armed Forces 1919-1945
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