The
Höheres Kommando LXXI was formed on 1 March 1942 using the personnel of Section Staff North Norway (), which had in turn been formed on 1 July 1941 from the territorial staff of
Mountain Corps Norway. The initial commander of Higher Command LXXI was
Emmerich Nagy. The subsequent corps structure, including the 199th, 230th and 270th Divisions, stayed unchanged between June 1942 and November 1944. Nagy was succeeded by
Willi Moser on 1 November 1942. On 26 January 1943, the Higher Command LXXI was renamed LXXI Army Corps, with Moser still in command. In November 1944, the
Armee Norwegen was dissolved and its tasks taken over by the
20th Mountain Army (
Lothar Rendulic,
Franz Böhme). The 230th Infantry Division was pulled away from the corps in November. Moser was succeeded as corps commander by
Anton Reichard von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim on 15 December 1944. In December 1944, the
163rd Infantry Division and
210th Infantry Division were added to the corps, while the 270th Division was pulled away. Starting in February 1945, the LXXI Army Corps was part of
Army Detachment Narvik (
Ferdinand Jodl), where it remained until the end of the war. By February, the 163rd and 210th Divisions had been pulled away from the corps and the
7th Mountain Division had been added. The
Division zbV 140 was added to the corps by 1 March. On 12 April 1945, the last day for which military organizational charts are available, the corps consisted of the 140th, 210th and the 230th Divisions. == Structure ==