XXXXVI Panzer Corps

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XXXXVI Army Corps
XXXXVI Panzer Corps
Active20 June 1940 - 3 May 1945
CountryFlag of Germany (1935-1945).svg Nazi Germany
Branch Army
Type Panzer corps
Role Armoured warfare
Size Corps
Engagements World War II

XXXXVI Panzer Corps (46th) was a tank corps of the German Army during World War II that participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia. [1]

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The Corps was created as the XXXXVI Army Corps and converted to a Panzer Corps on 21 June 1942.

The Panzer Corps took part in Operation Barbarossa and fought in Kiev, Putyvl, Vyazma and Volokolamsk. It later fought in Rusa-Volokolamsk, Rzhev, Vyazma and Yelnya before taking part in Operation Zitadelle (Kursk). It retired to the Svin area in September 1943 and to Mozyr in December. It was transferred to the southern sector in January 1944 and fought at Vinnitsa and later on the Dniester. It withdrew to Poland and ended the war in Pomerania by surrendering to British forces, by which point it only had the 547th Volksgrenadier Division and the 2nd Naval Division under its command.

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  1. U.S. Army 1986, pp. 39–41.

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