XIII SS Army Corps
Encyclopedia
XIII SS Army Corps was formed August 1944 at Breslau. It was moved to France
and the Western Front, where it remained until the end of the war, by which time it had retreated to the Alps
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and the Western Front, where it remained until the end of the war, by which time it had retreated to the Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
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Order of battle
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