Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Panzer Group Kleist shine farkon tsari na aiki na wasu rukunin Panzer a cikin Wehrmacht. An ƙirƙira shi don Yaƙin Faransa a ranar 1 ga Maris, 1940; an sa masa suna bayan kwamandansa Ewald von Kleist. Panzer Group Kleist ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a yakin Belgium. Rundunar Panzer ta Group ta shiga cikin Ardennes kuma ta isa teku, ta samar da aljihu mai yawa, wanda ya ƙunshi sojojin Belgium, Birtaniya, da Faransanci. Lokacin da armistice
An sanya hannu, an tura rukunin a cikin Faransa da aka mamaye, an sake masa suna zuwa Panzer Group 1 ("Panzergruppe 1") a watan Nuwamba. A watan Afrilu na 1941, Panzer Group 1 ya shiga cikin mamayewar Yugoslavia a matsayin wani ɓangare na Marshal Maximilian von Weichs's Army Army.