XXIV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

At the start of World War II it contained several regiments of border infantry in addition to the three Infantry-Divisions.

On October 3 Commanding General Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp was killed by artillery fire during a trip to the front near Storoschewoje.

In January 1943, during the Soviet Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, a pincer move as part of Operation Little Saturn, the corps was effectively destroyed.

The headquarters was overrun near Schilin, the staff driven off and the Commanding General, Generalleutnant Martin Wandel, being killed.

On the following day his successor, Karl Eibl, was killed in a friendly-fire accident with Italian troops, being mistaken for the enemy in the fog.

On 9 February, General der Panzertruppe Walther Nehring, who had fought in the North African Campaign, took over leadership of the corps.

During Operation Citadel in July 1943, the corps acted as the reserve for Army Group South under Erich von Manstein.

[3] Before the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive in January 1944, the corps had to withdraw to the Vinnytsia area, after which it was transferred to the 1st Panzer Army in Luzk, together with whom it had to fight out of the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket in March.