Armeekorps (mot)) was a German panzer corps which saw action on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War II.
In June 1941 the Corps was assigned to Army Group Centre for Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
[2] During the autumn, the Corps took part in the defence against Operation Suvorov, withdrawing to positions east of Mogilev.
During June 1944 the XXXIX Panzer Corps took part in the defence against the Soviet summer offensive, Operation Bagration; covering the strategically important highway through Mogilev, it was one of the strongest corps in the Army Group at the time, with four high-quality divisions.
[7] Renamed XXXIX Panzer Corps,[9] it fought for the control of Minsk[10] and then retreated in the face of the subsequent stages of the Soviet strategic offensive through Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, being pushed back into the Courland Pocket.