Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An kafa rukunin a ranar 15 ga Disamba, 1940 a Jamus. A wayewar Operation Barbarossa, a ranar 22 ga Yuni 1941, an sake sanya shi a matsayin XXXXVIII Panzer Corps. Corps an haɗa shi da Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's Panzer Group 1, wani ɓangare na Army Group Kudu. Sojojin sun shiga cikin
Yaƙin Brody a farkon yakin, kuma daga baya ya ga aikin a Berdichev da Kirovograd. Kamar yadda dukkanin sojojin Jamus suka yi a Gabas ta Gabas, XXXXVIII Corps ya aiwatar da Dokar Kwamishinan.