III SS Panzer Corps | |
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Active | April 1943 – 4 May 1945 |
Country | Nazi Germany |
Branch | Waffen-SS |
Type | Panzer corps |
Role | Armoured warfare |
Size | Corps |
Engagements | World War II |
The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (III. (germanische) SS-Panzerkorps) was a German 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.
Forced back by the 1944 Soviet winter offensive, the corps participated in the Battle for the 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 3rd Panzer Army.
15 June 1944 — Narva Front
16 September 1944