Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakatūria te rōpū i te 15 o Hakihea 1940 i Tiamana. I te ata o Operation Barbarossa, i te 22 o Pipiri 1941, i whakaingoatia ano hei XXXXVIII Panzer Corps. I whakauruhia te Corps ki a Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's Panzer Group 1, he waahanga o Army Group South. I whai wāhi te rōpū nei ki te Pakanga o Brody
i te timatanga o te pakanga, a, i muri mai ka kite i te mahi i Berdichev me Kirovograd. Ka rite ki nga Ropu Tiamana katoa i te Raki o te Rāwhiti, i whakatinanahia e te XXXXVIII Corps te Ture a te Komihana.