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The X SS Corps (German: ''Generalkommando X. SS-Armeekorps'' or ''Gruppe Krappe'') was a short-lived ''
Waffen-SS The (; ) was the military branch, combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscr ...
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corps Corps (; plural ''corps'' ; from French , from the Latin "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization. A military innovation by Napoleon I, the formation was formally introduced March 1, 1800, when Napoleon ordered Gener ...
-level headquarters employed on the Eastern Front in 1945 during
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History

The X SS Corps headquarters was formed in January 1945 with the use of men and equipment provided by the disbanded XIV SS Corps headquarters (a temporary HQ unit employed during Operation Northwind). The corps was subordinated to the 11th SS Panzer Army in February 1945, and then to the 3rd Panzer Army in March. They were deployed in the vicinity of Dramburg,
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. In February 1945, the X SS Corps controlled the 5th Jäger Division and the 402nd Division. ''
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'' Günther Krappe took command of the corps on 10 February 1945. In March 1945, the corps also had the 163rd Infantry Division under its control. In March 1945, the corps (and ''Korpsgruppe Tettau'') were encircled by elements of the 1st Guards Tank Army, the 3rd Shock Army, and the Polish 1st Army in an area approximately north of Dramburg. The two Soviet armies pushed against the pocket from the west and northwest while the Polish 1st Army drove from the south, east, and northeast, resulting in the destruction of the encircled German troops by 7 March 1945. On 8 March 1945, the Soviets announced the capture of Krappe and 8,000 men of the corps.


Commanders

* ''SS-
Obergruppenführer (, ) was a paramilitary rank in Nazi Germany that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and adopted by the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) one year later. Until April 1942, it was the highest commissioned SS rank after ...
'' Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski: 26 January – 10 February 1945 * ''Generalleutnant'' Günther Krappe: 10 February – 7 March 1945 * ''SS- Standartenführer'' Herbert Golz: 7 March – 11 March 1945


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