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IX SS Mountain Corps | |
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Active | 21 June 1944 – 12 February 1945 |
Country | Germany |
Branch | Waffen-SS |
Type | Gebirgsjäger |
Role | Mountain warfare |
Size | Corps |
Engagements | |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | SS-Gruppenführer Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch |
The IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) (German: IX. Waffen-Gebirgskorps der SS (Kroatisches)), later simply IX SS Mountain Corps, was a Waffen-SS corps during World War II. Originally set up to command Croatian and Albanian SS divisions, it also commanded a variety of other German and Hungarian units of the Waffen-SS. It saw action on the Eastern Front between July 1944 and January 1945 when it was virtually destroyed during the Siege of Budapest.[1]