GUIDES TO GERMAN RECORDS MICROFILMED AT ALEXANDRIA, VA. No. 62. Records of German Field Commands: Corps (Part Vn) (I, LH - XCI Corps) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1970 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 Microfilm Publication T314. Those desiring to purchase microfilm should write to the Publications Sales Branch, NARS, GSA, Washington, DC 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 be- lieved 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. 62,. Records of German Field Commands; Corps (Part VII) (I, LII - XCI Corps) The National Archives National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1970 P R E 3 E The Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria. Va. Channel Islands in 1942 and 1943, in Belgium from 1942 to 1944, constitute a series of finding aids describing National Archives in the Netherlands from 1942 to 1945, in Italy in 1943 and 1944, microfilm that reproduces seized records of German central, re- and in Greece in 1943 and 1944; and the occupation of Hungary in gional, and local government agencies, and of military commands 1944. and units, as well as of the Nazi Party, its formations, affili- ated associations, and supervised organizations. The records The provenance to which each record item is attributed is the described in the Guides were created generally during the period unit headquarters that created it (i.e., kept it on file), al- from 1920 to though a large proportion of the items had in fact already been retired to depositories of the Heeresarchiv Potsdam. There The series was initiated by the Microfilming Project of the accession numbers were assigned and stamped or written on the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American His- covers in the order received, and the records were then cata- torical Association in cooperation with the National Archives loged by unit in the so-called "Potsdam Catalog." By the time and the Department of the Army, With the termination of AHA the records reached the United States, they were in rough ar- participation in July 1963, the National Archives assumed rangement by unit. The National Archives has retained this sole responsibility for the reproduction of records and the system inherited from its various American predecessor organi- preparation of Guides. zations, taking advantage of the circumstance that the original Potsdam catalogs were acquired along with the seized field com- This Guide is one of many in the series describing the records mand records. The AHA and National Archives also followed this of the German Army field commands which have been arranged by arrangement in their joint and separate microfilm projects; how- unit and filmed in discrete microcopies according to their ever, some record items were filmed out of sequence because of military echelon as follows: Army Groups (Microcopy T-311), subsequent declassification or the discovery of previously mis- Armies (T-312), Panzer Armies (T-313), Corps (T-314), Divisions laid or temporarily unavailable material, \^rhich accounts for the (T-315), and Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and Others (T-501). occasional break in continuity of roll numbers in the Guides. Record items not yet retired to the Heeresarchiv depositories Guide No. 62 (designated Part VII of the seven Guides concerning at the time of capture were assigned accession numbers above records of corps — Parts I-VI being Guides 4-6, 55, and 58 through 75,000 by American custodians in extension of the original 61) describes the contents of 334- rolls of Microcopy No. T-314 Potsdam numbering scheme. reproducing records of the LII. - XCI. Armeekorps and a few records of the I. Armeekorps which were not available when Guide Considerable information on the fate of Germany's military No. 4.6 was issued. These records include material on the cam- archives during World War II, including documentation of efforts paign against the Soviet Union from 194-1 to 194-5, the campaign to reconstruct records destroyed in several wartime fires, may be •in Italy in 194-3 and 1944, did the • -extern campai'.yis. in 194-0 arid found in the files of the Chef des Heeresarchivs, OKH, filmed as 1944-45. Also included are records covering occupation duty in Microcopy T-78, Rolls 1-38 and described in Guide No. 12 of this France from 194-0 to 194-4, in Poland from 1941 to 1944, in Yugo- series. slavia from 1941 to 1944, in Norway from 1941 to 1945, on the iii Although the records of these corps have been filmed selectively, was undertaken because so many of these card descriptions were the war journals (Kriegstagebuecher) and activity reports (Taetig- prepared hastily to maintain pace with filming and restitution keitsberichte) and their annexes (Anlagen) of the Operations (la) schedules. and Intelligence (Ic) staff sections, wherever available, were filmed in entirety. Records of the Supply, Personnel, Adminis- The term "Roll" in the Guide refers to the sequence of the film; trative, Medical, and Veterinary and other staff sections assigned "1st Frame" gives the frame number of the first page of the fold- to corps headquarters were filmed only for those units whose opera* er; "Item No." is the identification symbol on the original tions and intelligence files were incomplete or missing. Map an- folder. The "Item" provides (a) the abbreviation of the staff nexes (Kartenanlagen) consisting exclusively of large maps diffi- section that originated the document, (b) the title appearing on cult to put on microfilm were generally omitted; maps interspersed the folder cover, and (c) additional information providing a among and integrated with the textual records were filmed in sev- general description of the contents. The inclusive dates of the eral overlapping sections, which, along with the loss of color file item are given under a "Date" column. markings, detracts considerably from their value and ease of use, The original records, filmed and unfilmed, have been returned to A unit history precedes the file item listing for each corps. the Federal Republic of Germany for deposit in the Bundesarchiv- These histories are a revised and expanded form of the shorter Militaerarchiv in Freiburg. The master negatives of Microfilm unit histories filmed at the beginning of every roll reproduc- Publication T314 have been deposited with the Publications Sales ing the records of each unit. The unit histories are based on Branch, National Archives, Washington, DC 204-08, from which information found in the records, in the Potsdam catalogs, and copies of specific rolls may be purchased. Reference copies may on contemporary German daily situation maps, supplementing or be consulted in the microfilm reading room of the National Archives. correcting the brief histories given in the Order of Battle of For suggestions for citing microfilm see page 222. the German Army. War Department, Washington, March 1945. ,A data card describing each filmed record item has been filmed The descriptions in this Guide were prepared by Anton F. Grassl, immediately preceding the folder it describes, and the cards George Wagner, Petronilla Hawes, and Charles F. Gordon under the for all folders on one roll of film are again filmed as a find- supervision of Donald E. Spencer. ing aid at the beginning of that roll. The information con- tained on these cards was used as a reference in compiling ROBERT WOLFE descriptive entries for the Guide, but considerable revision Specialist for Modern European History TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Preface • ••••••••••••.«........ ill German Military Symbols and Abbreviations vii Organization of German Army Staffs x Records: I. Armeekorps (I Army Corps) 1 LIT. Armeekorps (LII Army Corps) 3 LIII. Armeekorps (LIU Army Corps) 19 LIV. Armeekorps (LIV Army Corps) 35 LV. Armeekorps (LV Army Corps) 51 LVI. Panzerkorps (LVI Panzer Corps) 58 LVII. Panzerkorps (LVII Panzer Corps) 88 LVIII. Panzerkorps (LVIII Panzer Corps) 101 LIX. Armeekorps (LIX Army Corps) 105 LXI. Reservekorps (LXI Reserve Corps) . 115 LXII. Reservekorps (JJCEI Reserve Corps) 117 LXIV. Reservekorps (LXIV Reserve Corps) 118 Hoheres Kommando z.b.V, LXV (LXV Corps Command) 120 LXVT. Reservekorps (LXVI Reserve Corps) 122 LXVII. Armeekorps (LXVII Army Corps) 125 LXVIII. Armeekorps (LXVIII Army Corps 128 Page LXIX. Armeekorps z.b.V. (LXIX Army Corps) 136 LXX. Armeekorps (LXX Army Corps) 141 LXXI. Armeekorps (LXXI Army Corps) 146 LXHI. Armeekorps (LXXII Army Corps) 155 LXHV. Armeekorps (LXXIV Army Corps) 153 LXXV. Armeekorps (LXXV Army Corps) 160 LXXVI. Panzerkorps fTVT;i panzer Corps) 163 LkAVilI. Armeekorps z.b.V. (LXXVIII Army Corps) 165 LXXX. Armeekorps (LXXX Army Corps) 166 LXXXI. Armeekorps (LXXXI Army Corps) 173 LXXXII. Armeekorps (LXXXII Army Corps) - 184 LXXXIV. Armeekorps (LXXXIV Army Corps) 188 LXXXV. Armeekorps (LXXXV Army Corps) 191 LXXXVI. Armeekorps (LXXXVI Army Corps) 192 LXXXVII. Armeekorps (LXXXVII Army Corps) 196 LXXXVIII. Armeekorps (LXXXVIII Army Corps) ..".... 204 LXXHX. Armeekorps (LXXXIX Army Corps) 214 XCI, Armeekorps z.b.V. (XCI Army Corps) 217 Previously Published Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Va. 219 Suggections for citing microfilm < 222 VI GERMAN MILITARY SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS la Operationsabteilung Baupi Baupioniere Ic Feindnachrichtenabteilung Bd. Band Ic/A.O. Feindnachrichtenwesen u. Abwehroffizier Beob. Beobachtung Id Ausbildungsoffizier bes.