GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 61. Records of German Field Commands: Corps (Part VI) (XLI - LI Corps) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1969 This finding aid has been prepared by the National Archives as part of its program of facilitating the use of records in its custody. The microfilm described in this guide may be consulted at the National Archives, where it is identified as Microcopy No. T-314. A price list appears on the last pages. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should write to the Publications Sales Branch, The National Archives, Washington, D.C. 20408. Some of the papers reproduced on the microfilm referred to in this and other guides of the same series may have been of private origin. The fact of their seizure is not believed to divest their original owners of any literary property rights in them. Anyone, therefore, who publishes them in whole or in part without permission of their authors may be held liable for infringement of such literary property rights. GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA- No. 6l. Records of German Field Commands: Corps (Part VI) (XLI - LI Corps) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: R E F A E The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va. The provenance to which each record item is attributed is the constitute a series of finding aids describing National Archives unit headquarters that created it (i.e., kept it on file), microfilm that reproduces seized records of German central, re- although a large proportion of the items had in fact already gional, and local government agencies, and of military commands been retired to depositories of the Heeresarchiv Potsdam. There and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, its formations, affili- accession numbers were assigned and stamped or written on the ated associations, and supervised organizations. The records covers in the order received, and the records were then cata- described in the Guides were created generally during the period loged by unit in the so-called "Potsdam Catalog." By the time from 1920 to 191*5. the records reached the United States, they were in rough ar- rangement by unit. The National Archives has retained this The series was initiated by the Microfilming Project of the system inherited from its various American predecessor organi- Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American His- zations, taking advantage of the circumstance that the original torical Association in cooperation with the National Archives Potsdam catalogs were acquired along with the seized field com- and the Department of the Army. With the termination of AHA mand records. The AHA and National Archives also followed this participation in July 19&3j ^he National Archives assumed arrangement in their joint and separate microfilm projects; how- sole responsibility for the reproduction of records and the ever, some items were filmed out of sequence because of subse- preparation of Guides. quent declassification or the discovery of previously mislaid or temporarily unavailable material, which accounts for the This Guide is one of many in the series describing the records occasional break in continuity of roll numbers in the Guides. of the German Army field commands which have been arranged by Record items not yet retired to the Heeresarchiv depositories unit and filmed in discrete microcopies according to their at the time of capture were assigned accession numbers above military echelon as follows: Army Groups (Microcopy T-31l)j 759000 by American custodians in extension of the original Armies (T-312), Panzer Armies (T-313)> Corps (T-31*0» Divisions Potsdam numbering scheme. (T-315), and Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and Others (T-501) Considerable information on the fate of Germany's military Guide No. 6l (designated Part VT of the projected seven Guides archives during World War II, including documentation of efforts concerning records of corps—Parts I-V being Guides ^6, 55, and to reconstruct records destroyed in several wartime fires, may be 58 through 60) describes the contents of 300 rolls of Microcopy found in the files of the Chef des Heeresarchivs,OKH, filmed as No. 1-31*4- reproducing records of the XLI. - LI. Armeekorps. Microcopy T-?8, Rolls 1-38 and described in Guide No. 12 of this These records include material on the campaigns in western series. Europe in 19*4-0 and in 19^4-, the Balkan campaign in 19!*!, the campaign against the Soviet Union from 19^1 to 19^53 and the The records of these corps have been filmed selectively, with campaign in Italy from 19^3 to 19^5- Also included are records emphasis on the war journals (Kriegstagebucher) and activity covering occupation duty in Poland in 19^*0 and 19^*1 and in France reports (Tatigkeitsberichte) and their annexes (Anlagen) of the from 19^0 to 191*2. Operations (la) and Intelligence (ic) staff sections, wherever 111 they are available. Some records of the Supply, Personnel, descriptive entries for the Guide, but considerable revision was Administrative, Medical, and Veterinary and other staff sec- undertaken because so many of these descriptions were prepared tions assigned to corps headquarters were included, particu- hastily to maintain pace with filming and restitution schedules. larly for those units whose operations and intelligence files were incomplete or missing. Map annexes (Kartenanlagen) con- The terra "Roll" in the Guide refers to the sequence of the film; sisting exclusively of large maps difficult to put on micro- "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the fol- film were generally omitted; maps interspersed among and inte- der; "Item No." is the identification symbol on the original grated with the textual records were filmed in several over- folder. The "Item" provides (a) the abbreviation of the staff lapping sections, which, along with the loss of color markings, section that originated the document, (b) the title appearing on detracts considerably from their value and ease of use. the folder cover, and (c) additional information providing a general description of the contents. The inclusive dates of the A unit history precedes the file item listing for each corps. file item are given under a "Date" column. These histories are a revised and expanded form of the shorter unit histories filmed at the beginning of every roll reproduc- The original records, filmed and unfilmed, have been returned to ing the records of each unit. The unit histories are based on the Federal Republic of Germany for deposit in the Bundesarchiv- information found in the records, in the Potsdam catalogs, and Militararchiv in Freiburg. The master negatives of Microcopy on contemporary German daily situation maps, supplementing or T-31^- have been deposited with the Publications Sales Branch, correcting the brief histories given in the Order of Battle of National Archives, Washington, D.C. 20^08, from which copies the German Army, War Department, Washington, March 19^5- A of specific rolls may be purchased. Reference copies may be data card describing each filmed record item has been filmed consulted in the microfilm reading room of the National Archives. immediately preceding the folder it describes, and the cards for all folders on one roll of film are again filmed as a find- The descriptions in this Guide were prepared by Anton F. Grassl, ing aid at the beginning of that roll. The information con- Charles F. Gordon, George Wagner, Ignaz Ernst, Richard Bauer, tained on these cards was used as a reference in compiling and Johanna M. Wagner under the supervision of Donald E. Spencer. ROBERT WOLFE Specialist in German Records IV TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Jrreiace ««•««•»•«••«•»»••••«,». in German Military Symbols and Abbreviations vii Organization of German Army Staffs x Records: XLI. Panzerkorps (XLI Panzer Corps) ... 1 XLII. Armeekorps (XLII Army Corps) lU XLIII. Armeekorps (XLIII Army Corps) 29 XLIV. Armeekorps (XLIV Army Corps) 14.5 Hbheres Kommando XLV (XLV Corps Command) 59 XLVI. Panzerkorps (XLVI Panzer Corps) 63 XLVII. Panzerkorps (XLVII Panzer Corps) 83 XLVIII. Panzerkorps (XLVIII Panzer Corps) 101 XLIX. Gebirgskorps (XLIX Mountain Corps) 12? L. Armeekorps (L Army Corps) lU2 LI. Armeekorps (LI Army Corps) . 162 LI. Gebirgskorps (LI Mountain Corps) . 170 Previously Published Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va l8l Price List 185 v GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS la Operationsabteilung Baupi Baupioniere Ic FeindnachrichtenabteHung Bd. Band Ic/A.O. Feindnachrichtenwesen u. Abwehroffizier Beob. Beobachtung Id Ausbildungsoffizier bes. besondere Ila 1. Adjutant betr. betreffend lib 2. Adjutant Betr.St. Betriebsstoff III Richter Brig. Brigade IVa Intendant Bt. Bataillon IVb Arzt B.V. Betriebsstoffversorgung IVc Veterinar Bv.T.O. Bevollmachtigter Transportoffizier IVd Gruppe Seelsorge bzw. beziehungsweise IVd/Ev. Evangelischer Kriegspfarrer Ch.d.Gen.St. Chef des Generalstabes IVd/Kath. Katholischer Kriegspfarrer Div. Division V Kraftfahrwesenoffizier Eisenb. Eisenbahn VI Nationalsozialistischer Fuhrungsoffizier (NSFO) Fahrtr. Fahrtruppen VII Chef der Zivilverwaltung Eallsch. Fallschirm feindl. feindliche Abt. Abteilung Feldgend, FeIdgendarmerie Abw. Abwehr Feldkdtr. Feldkommandantur A.K. Armeekorps Feldlaz. Feldlazarett allg. allgemein Feld.V.St. Feldvorschriftenstelle A.Na.Fu. Armeenachrichtenfuhrer Fest. Festung Anl. Anlage FK Feldkommandantur Anordn. Anordnung Fl. Flieger A.O. Abwehroffizier Flak Flie gerabwehrkanone AOK Arme e ober koramando Flivo Fliegerverbindurigsoffizier A.O.Kraft Abwehroffizier des Kraftfahrwesens FPM Fe Id pos tme is ter A.Pi.PU. Arme e pidnier ftihr er freiw. freiwillig Arfu. Artilleriefuhrer Fu. Fiihrer Arko Ar tiller iekoramandeur Gabo Gasabwehroffiz ier Armeegeb, Armeegebiet Geb. Gebirgs- Art., Artl. Artillerie Gen.d.Inf. General der Infanterie Aufkl. Aufklarung Gen.Kdo. Generalkommando A.V.L. Arme ever pfle gungs lager Genlt. Generalleutnant Batl. Bataillon Genmaj. Generalmajor Battr. Batter ie Genobst, Generaloberst vii GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS (cont'd.) Genstb.d.H.