In February 1943, the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps took part in the battles around Kharkov, and in June it was committed to the southern flank of the Battle of Kursk as part of Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army.
However, it was quickly reformed and used by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Operation Winter Storm efforts to relieve General Friedrich Paulus' trapped Sixth Army still in Stalingrad. The remaining major units, 22nd Panzer Division and 1st Armoured Division (Romania), were almost completely destroyed during Operation Uranus. Thereafter the corps joined the Fall Blau offensive towards Stalingrad under Army Group B.ĭuring the Battle of Stalingrad the 29th Motorized Infantry Division (transferred to the IV Army Corps), the 14th Panzer Division and the 24th Panzer Division (both transferred to the LI Army Corps) was trapped inside the Stalingrad pocket. įrom late 1941 to May 1942, the corps took part in defensive operations in the Kursk area. As did all German Corps on the Eastern Front, the XXXXVIII Corps implemented the criminal Commissar Order. The corps took part in the Battle of Brody early in the campaign, and later saw action at Berdichev and Kirovograd. The Corps was attached to Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's Panzer Group 1, a part of Army Group South. At the dawn of Operation Barbarossa, on 22 June 1941, it was redesignated as the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps.
The corps was originally formed on 15 December 1940 in Germany.
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