Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - Panzer Group Kleist ko te hanganga mahi tuatahi o te maha Panzer corps i roto i te Wehrmacht. I hangaia mo te Pakanga o Parani i te 1 o Poutu-te-rangi 1940; i tapaina i muri i tana rangatira a Ewald von Kleist. Panzer Group Kleist i whai wāhi nui i roto i te Pakanga o Belgium. Ko nga roopu Panzer o te Roopu i pakaru i nga Ardennes ka tae ki te moana, ka hanga i tetahi putea nui, kei roto i etahi ope Belgian, Ingarihi, me French. I te wā o te rangimarie
i hainatia, i tohaina te Rōpū ki te Wīwī e nohoia ana, i whakaingoatia hei Panzer Group 1 ("Panzergruppe 1") i te marama o Noema. I te Paenga-whawha 1941, i uru te Panzer Group 1 ki te whakaekenga o Yugoslavia hei waahanga o te Ope Taua Tuarua a Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs.