"The Battle of Kursk – “The Gully of Death”" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Aug 2015 10:08 p.m. PST |
An Attempt to Separate Myth from Reality "Following their defeat at Stalingrad during the winter of 1942-43, the German armed forces launched a climactic offensive in the East known as Operation Citadel on 4 July 1943. The climax of Operation Citadel, the Battle of Kursk, involved as many as 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting men and is remembered, rightly or wrongly, as the greatest tank battle in history. There are massive differences between historians over the events of this time and it still remains a slice of history that is surrounded by myth and speculation. Even now new information is being found as new archives are unearthed that have previously remained buried and hidden. As an example, the Waffen SS formation records were not declassified until around 1981 by which time many so-called ‘historical reports' had already been produced. The most discussed Battle was the one that occurred at Prochorovka (also spelled Prokhorovka as many of you will recognise) which began on 12 July. Here again historians hailed Prochorovka as a victory of improved Soviet tactics over German firepower and heavy tanks, relatively new evidence shows the events at the ‘gully of death' in a somewhat different way…"
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