Gebirgskorps Norwegen (Mountain Corps "Norway") was a German army unit during World War II.
The corps was formed in July 1940 and was later transferred to northern Norway as part of AOK Norwegen. Its first action was taking part in Operation Renntier, the occupation of FinnishPetsamo. In June 1941 the corps attacked from Petsamo to Murmansk in a operation codenamed Platinfuchs. The attack failed and the corps never reached its goal.
In November 1942 the corps was renamed the XIX Gebirgskorps or XIX Mountain Corps.
In 1944 the corps finally had to retreat back to Norway where it surrendered in May 1945. From November 1944 onwards the corps was also sometimes known as Armeeabteilung Narvik.
The 6th Mountain Division, with the 388th Grenadier Regiment attached, guarded the strongly fortified Litsa front from the Titovka River mouth south and west to Lake Chapr, and the 2d Mountain Division defended in strongpoints in front of the Titovka River south from Lake Chapr to Hill 237.1.
As the amphibious landing was being reported to the Twentieth Mountain Army, the XIXMountainCorps chief of staff requested that the corps counterattack be postponed from 10 October to 11 October because of the difficulty in assembling scattered units.
The situation was indeed bleak: the XIXMountainCorps was now faced with an envelopment of its right flank by the 126th Light Rifle Corps, a breakthrough toward Luostari and Petsamo, and an envelopment on its left flank by naval infantry.
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