After attempting to break through the enemy, the corps was brought forward to the Oriol sector via Zaritschanka-Majatschka. On September 15, the connection with the troops of Panzer Group 2 at Lochwitza and the eastern boiler front closed. Army Corps (motorized) (General Kempf) to break through to the north. The corps continued with the 9th Panzer, 16th and 25th Infantry Division (motorized) in cooperation with the divisions of the XXXXXVIII. After that, stopped and directed back to the north, the Dnieper was crossed at Kremenchug on September 11th to take part in the Battle of Kiev. The further advance took place on Pervomaisk, on August 16, it took part in the capture of Krivoy Rog and two days later it reached the Dnieper in the Dnepropetrovsk area. On July 16, Biala Zerkow was reached and then swung south to take part in the Kesselschlacht near Uman until August 8. Tarnopol was taken on July 2nd and the Stalin line broken on July 7th. During the tank battle of Lutsk-Dubno, it led defensive battles against Soviet tank attacks near Zloczow. The General Command was after a short stay in the 2nd Army for the attack on the Soviet Union Relocated to Galicia and assigned to Panzer Group 1 (Field Marshal Kleist ) as a reserve.Īfter the start of Operation Barbarossa, it was followed by Panzer Group 1 via Annopol with the 9th Panzer Division and the SS divisions "Leibstandarte" and "Wiking". The troops of the commanding general von Wietersheim broke into Serbia via Pirot with the 60th Infantry Division (motorized) and the 5th and 11th Panzer Divisions.
Deploying in western Bulgaria, the corps attacked the Morava sector from the deployments northwest of Sofia. 1941įrom January 1941 the command with the 12th Army was transferred to Romania and took part in the Balkan campaign in April. Subordinated to the 12th Army established there between July and September in the Orléans area as security, the corps and the army command returned to Poland from October 1940 relocated. The 9th and 10th Panzer Divisions, the 13th Infantry Division (motorized) and the Infantry Regiment Greater Germany were subordinate to the General Command and advanced across the Loire into the Poitiers and Angouleme area. In the second phase of the attack (June 1940) assigned to Army Group B, the General Command was deployed alternately with the 6th and 4th Armies on the Somme sector. After breaking through to the canal, the corps was prematurely stopped in the Cambrai area in order to build up a front to the south. During the German attack in the western campaign (May 1940) the corps was concentrated in the Ardennes behind the 12th Army as a reserve of Panzer Group Kleist. In December 1939 the corps was part of the 16th Army during the seated war in the Trier area and then joined Army Group A as a reserve. The subordinate 13th and 29th motorized infantry divisions were called in until 9 September after the advance to the Vistula near Deblin and Kozienice to close the Radom pocket and fought in the Warsaw area in the second phase of the campaign. Cooperation between A/G North and A/G Center to encircle enemy units on their common boundary south of Lake Illmann never did work out.After the mobilization on August 1, 1939, the XIV Army Corps (mot.) Was used as part of the 10th Army in the attack on Poland. At 7:00AM on 20 July the 19th was ordered to withdraw from Velikie Luki and pull back to Nevel. By the night of 19 July the pressure against the entire corps in the Nevel – Lovat River– Velikie Luki area was becoming unbearable, and it was coming from the west, from enemy troops withdrawing eastward in front of German 16th Army units pushing from the west. The 19th entered Velikie Luki on 17 July capturing considerable supplies and equipment in an assault that surprised the recently behind-the-lines supply troops. The next day, the 19th was ordered to attack and take Velikie Luki, toward the northeast. The LI Rifle Corps’ encirclement jeopardized their neighbor, the LXII Rifle Corps, which therefore began to pull back toward the northeast. On 15 July the 19th captured Nevel, this closed the encirclement of the Soviet LI Rifle Corps which was operating west of Nevel. along Panzergruppe 3’s northern flank, was ordered, by OKH, to cooperate with elements of A/G North, to encircle enemy forces along the boundary between the two Army Groups south of Lake Illmann. In the middle of July 1941, 19th Panzer Division, which was leading LVII Pz.K.
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