The Höheres Kommando LXXI was formed on 1 March 1942 using the personnel of Section Staff North Norway (German: Abschnittsstab Nord-Norwegen), which had in turn been formed on 1 July 1941 from the territorial staff of Mountain Corps Norway.
[3] The subsequent corps structure, including the 199th, 230th and 270th Divisions, stayed unchanged between June 1942 and November 1944.
[1][2] In November 1944, the Armee Norwegen was dissolved and its tasks taken over by the 20th Mountain Army (Lothar Rendulic, Franz Böhme).
[4] Moser was succeeded as corps commander by Anton Reichard von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim on 15 December 1944.
[4] On 12 April 1945, the last day for which military organizational charts are available, the corps consisted of the 140th, 210th and the 230th Divisions.