IX SS Mountain Corps

IX SS Mountain Corps
Active21 June 1944 – 12 February 1945
Country Germany
Branch Waffen-SS
TypeGebirgsjäger
RoleMountain warfare
SizeCorps
EngagementsWorld War II
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 control 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]


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