The Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland {abbreviated GD} was officially ordered created (OKH/OrgAbt/Nr. I/21020/44 gKdos dated 28.09.1944) to comprise the Panzergrenadier-Division Grossdeutschland and the Panzergrenadier-Division Brandenburg {abbreviated BDB}. All PzK units received the number 500. Most units were merely redesignations of existing units. In actual fact, the GD PzK was not raised until 20.12.1944. By then, however, geographical considerations and the catastrophic situation on the East Front prevented many units and even the PzG Div GD itself from joining the PzK, and the PzK GD faced the Soviet Weichsel offensive with the PzGrenDiv Brandenburg and the 1. Fallschirm-PzDiv Hermann Göring. The corps units went into action under strength and badly trained. (Note that the Panzergrenadier-Division Grossdeutschland was a non-standard division and had extra units even in late 1944 and 1945, and in actual fact had been a very strong Panzer-Division ever since 1943.) However, the creation of the PzK GD meant that several of these extra units were lost, such as the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade GD, which was transferred to the Panzergrenadier-Division Brandenburg, and the III./Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment GD, which was used to form the artillery regiment of the PzK GD, etc. In turn, the PzK quickly lost units that could not join it, such as the PzPionBtl 500 which became PionBtl 124, II./Artillerie-Regiment 500 which became III/ Artillerie-Regiment 124 (both of the Führer-Grenadier-Division), etc.
For others, see
1945 Panzerkorps (neuer Art)
