In May 1941, the corps was transferred to German-occupied Poland, where it was assigned to the 2nd Panzer Army of Army Group Centre under Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Here it took part in the encirclement battles at Białystok–Minsk, Smolensk, Kiev and Bryansk and afterwards in the advance on Tula. During the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941/42 it had to withdraw back to Bryansk.