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The Korps suffered heavy losses in the ensuing counter offensive in early October against the allied salient on the Island. 82nd Airborne Division and British XXX Corps in Nijmegen. The corps was involved in fighting against the British 1st Airborne Division in the Battle of Arnhem and also against the U.S. On 17 September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, an airborne offensive aimed at capturing the Rhine bridge at Arnhem. In August 1944, the corps participated in the battles in and around the Falaise Pocket. During this period, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich was placed in command of the corps. The corps was involved in heavy fighting against the British 21st Army Group in the Battle of Caen. In mid-June 1944, the corps was ordered west to take part in the Battle of Normandy, arriving to the invasion front in late June 1944. After this, the corps was moved into the reserve of the newly created Army Group North Ukraine. However, the Red Army had prepared defenses there and the relief operation ultimately failed. It was the first major transfer of forces from France to the East since the creation of the Führer Directive 51, which no longer allowed any transfers from the West to the East.Īfter rescuing the better part of the 1st Panzer Army, the corps then participated in the attempt to de-blockade the trapped German garrison of the 4th Panzer Army in the town of Tarnopol, which was declared to be fortress (Festung) by the Germans. In late March-early April 1944, the corps, alongside other reinforcements, : 228 was sent from France to the Eastern Front, where it played the main role in de-blockading the encircled 1st Panzer Army in the Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket, also known as Hube Pocket. In January 1944, the corps was ordered to the Alençon area of France to refit. In November, 1943, Leibstandarte returned to the Soviet Union, with the corps remaining in Slovenia, Istria and northern Italy. According to Croat authors, in the first phase against partisans on Istrian peninsula (Unternehmen Istrien), some 2000 partisans and 2000 civilians were killed by German forces, and additional 1200 were arrested, with some 400 transported to concentration camps. In these operations, according to the Corps Headquarters' Medical Department, the corps suffered total losses of 936 men. Leibstandarte took part in operations to disarm Italian troops.īetween 20 September and 20 of November 1943 the corps conducted operations against Yugoslav Partisans in order to establish a connection with Army Group F in the Balkans and to secure communications east and northwards from Trieste and Rijeka. The remaining combat divisions remained on the Eastern Front to deal with the developing threats from the Soviet Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation. Only one division, the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ended up being transferred, along with the corps personnel.
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After the operation was canceled in light of its failure, the corps was ordered to the Italian front in August. The corps' three SS divisions were involved in the Battle of Prokhorovka at the edge of the German penetration into the salient. In July 1943, the corps took part in the failed Operation Citadel, spearheading 4th Panzer Army's attack in the southern sector. The corps was renamed II SS Panzer Corps in June 1943, after the I SS Panzer Corps was created during that same month. In early February 1943, the corps, under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser, was attached to Army Group South in Ukraine and participated in the Third Battle of Kharkov. In August, it was sent to northern France before taking part in the Case Anton, the occupation of Vichy France in November, during which it captured Toulon.
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The II SS Panzer Corps was formed from SS Division Leibstandarte, SS Division Das Reich and SS Division Totenkopf in July 1942 as the SS Panzer Corps.